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!

Click on any of the sketches to enlarge...
and don't forget to check out older posts!

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Jan 24, 2011

    This is a sketch of my son's baby turtle, which has no name as yet. This little guy or gal (too early to tell) is about three months old. With this sketch, it is helpful to click on it to enlarge the image since the face shows up better when closer to the original sketch size.
    This was done from a photo, taken mid-yawn. In general, I find that when I sketch from a photo I don't have the same feeling of accomplishment. It is as though I feel like the image already exists, so why attempt to capture it? This time, I enjoyed working with sharper and fuzzier edges, and obviously I would have had a hard time with the subject without some means of artificially capturing the moment. Of course, whether or not the image already exists, there is still the element of practice, practice, practice...
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