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!
Do you have one of those tube wringers for paint? Made by Gill Mechanical Co, in Oregon, available from Daniel Smith? I use mine for toothpaste as well as paints, figure I get about 15% more from a tube - a great savings with cadmium and cobalt colours! The big metal one is able to handle 150 mL tubes, but not the plastic one - and none of the cheap (Chinese) imitations can do anything worth while. I have both: plastic one is 30+ years old and still going (with a new handle).
ReplyDeleteAh ha ha! I Knew that at least some people would think 'she's a middle-of-the-tube squeezer'! It's supposedly a great tell, but I do both... depending. I roll, and use the thick blue rubber bands over the end, but the plastic tubes are hard to do much with. PAINTS now, I'm a roll and eek out every last gooey drop person!
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