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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Interesting. I also think there are a lot of things we don't see unless we draw them. I usually don't even register what color something is until I do a painting of it!
ReplyDeleteI agree: I don't know what is out in front of me until I draw it; then I understand and it becomes "real" to me. This is as true of familiar things as things I've never seen before that I draw in order to ask someone what it is..
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