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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You have some pretty cool stuff! Nice!
ReplyDeleteJust in the few rooms right in and around the American Artists at the National Gallery I noticed at least two if not three notes on paintings that the objects in the given still life were "from the collection of the artist". In some cases, I gather the same object shows up more than once... maybe people who are interested in visual characteristics are also often collectors.
ReplyDeleteAlso, there's always that problem of what to draw that's not too simple as to be boring visually, but not too complicated as to keep us up all night! This one was, I admit, chosen as fairly unchallenging since I was Tired...
I especially like the "blow up" details of the shading on the handle curliques and the flowers on the body of the iron.
ReplyDeleteTODAY without fail I am going to see an exhibit at the NatGal that is about to close. Not much "from the collection of the artist" in this one I suspect.
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