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!

Sunday, March 6, 2011

March 4, 2011

    An avocado... at some point while gathering the salad fixings I thought "this should be a good subject", then shortly after beginning the sketch I thought "ugh... a way to use up lots and lots of lead". Then came frustration, then patches of hopefulness, and finally I was happier with it... but Mainly in the end I decided an avocado is a Super teacher. 
    Within the lumps on the skin are pretty difficult lessons in how important scale is, even with texture, how important it is to trust what you see, how hard it is to produce random repetition but how wrong too many same repeats can look in nature, and some of the more or less useful ways the human mind translates visuals into verbal coding to grapple with pattern.
    Then we had the salad...
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