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, March 15, 2011

March 11, 2011

     This was an exercise in drawing a moving human figure, although I cheated quite a bit by using a "vlog" (no idea why the referencing site calls it that) of a dancer so that I could play and replay the moment that caught my eye, even though she is moving extremely slowly in this passage... no pausing though!
     I used a video of Zoe Janeroncka, partly because the pose appealed to me and partly because of the dramatic lighting. I changed her hair from dark to light however, simply because it worked better for me. 
    
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