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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Saturday, March 26, 2011

March 20, 2011

    My older son commented he thought I should do another of the "scribble pictures" where I simply scribbled and then drew something based on the scribble, but he declined to provide the scribble so I lassoed the other son into making a scribble for me. After all, the original game, when I was a kid, was for one person to make a scribble and the other person had to make something out of the scribble... My second son provided the following scribble (I think he was channelling Joan Miro):
     I could turn it any direction I wanted, and I ended up using the direction that was 180 degrees from the orientation in which he drew this, but I have given you the scribble in the direction I used it. Can you find all of the original lines in the final drawing? 
     I drew the golden fish from the fairy tales, who could grant three wishes. Here, he's swimming with a companion, and some hopeful soul is attempting to net him with a net which is much too small. Magic can't be captured with a tiny imagination...
 

3 comments:

  1. There's a children's book lurking in here somewhere.....

    cp

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  2. Definitely a book! And what a shift from scribble to whole fable of a drawing.

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