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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Sunday, May 22, 2011

May 20, 2011

    This is a pyjama puppy from the late 1950's/early 1960's. For those who don't know what a pyjama puppy (or pyjama elephant, pyjama kitten etc.) is, it's soft, not very stuffed, and has a zipper in the belly where you keep your pyjamas during the day. 
    I drew this one without lines. I mean, there are lines making up the shading, but there are no lines defining edges. In other words, I used shading to make areas of value and built the pup up that way rather than sketching it first and then modelling it with shading. If I had been using the side of my pencil or a carbon stick there would have been No lines. 
    I've been feeling like trying out some ways of drawing in a more painterly way, not necessarily because I would like the process or product better but because it would be an interesting exercise, and this is one attempt at one approach.

1 comment:

  1. Really good idea! You are really growing and developing as an artist this year.

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