The purpose of a sketch a day is just to do it - sketch! It doesn't matter if it is an involved sketch or if it is a simple contour or gesture drawing. There are no rules except to sketch each day.

Life parameters can dictate the time investment, but a sketch a day commitment is designed to elevate the personal priority of sketching ... to enforce sketching. Making it into a "resolution" validates the activity (invests it with a bit of a challenge even!) and defends against competing demands. The sketch a day is designed for practice - to reinforce basic skills, and to provide daily contemplation on the issues of two dimensional representation.

Several of us are doing a sketch a day, and I would enjoy hearing from anyone else who decides to join in. We share our efforts, support each other, keep each other honest and... hopefully we'll have some fun doing this!

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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Feb. 9, 2011

     I wanted to do a very quick sketch tonight since I was tired and it had gotten late. Looking around for inspiration, I remembered I had run into something saying this was the Chinese zodiac Year of the Rabbit... some places say "golden rabbit"... and that it began only a few days ago on February 3rd. This might be a subject for a more fanciful drawing later since it goes on to say the rabbit represents the moon, the peacock the sun, and the two compose yin and yang.
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