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!

Saturday, March 19, 2011

March 15, 2011

    This is the crab shell left sitting on the bench in the sun. I did it with colored pencil and a hit of white paint... an entirely different treatment of colored pencil. The odd white "eye" spot is a barnacle... I could have left it out, but I liked the peculiar alien look on an entirely alien but earthly co-habitant.
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  1. Amy MannMarch 19, 2011 at 11:28 PM

    Very cool!

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  2. AnonymousMarch 20, 2011 at 7:13 AM

    The color is amazing....so frequently I think I can smell the subject of these drawings.

    On a somewhat related front, shall we save you a Samosa for your GS Cookie series?

    cp

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