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!


Friday, March 4, 2011

March 3, 2011

    This is an enamel pot for heating water. I'm rather fond of it despite it's obvious challenges (having had the handle replaced sometime in the past with shelf brackets) because it's something of a magic pot; it holds about twice as much water as anything it's size should...

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  1. I like the way you worked into the pencil with an eraser (you did, right?)and achieved the look of many different materials - metal for the shelf bracket handle, white enamel, the knob on the lid... and I like magic containers that hold more than they should (like a TARDIS!)

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