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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Very nice! You really get a good range of values with a 2B pencil. I especially like the nacre of the inside of the shell on the right. Very luminous.
ReplyDeleteThank you - I got a fairly cheap sketch book because I can miss-place them, drop them in the river, and so on (!), but this one said it's smear resistant which I had to See. It seems to Be, lucky smudgy hands me. But the paper takes pencil well too, so it's a great deal due to the paper...
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