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!

Monday, March 21, 2011

March 17, 2011


I'm several postings and two sketches behind unless I use the (as yet) unfinished sketch I did yesterday, so I'm going to try something new (for me and this blog) and post the unfinished sketch now and post the finished sketch when I have it done, which may not be tonight as I will be home fairly late.
    It's interesting, anyway, from the perspective of how one of my drawings looks part-way through; for instance while I am more apt to "work all over the page" when painting, I tend to establish some boundaries and then grow outward from one spot when sketching... as I "see" the sketch "forming up", or "coming out of the page".
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  1. AnonymousMarch 22, 2011 at 8:14 PM

    oh, after looking for a while I suddenly see who this is.......!

    cp

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