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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Monday, May 30, 2011

May 25, 2011

    A scratchy 'what the hell' sketch of my mother's feet. We were watching T.V. in the evening and since it often makes people nervous to draw them (and I can hardly take a photo of my mother without her ducking and hiding) I started to draw her feet... a safe enough subject. Except. She recrossed them after I had the outline for the top foot done, then recrossed. Then recrossed and uncrossed. And so on... I had already (optimistically) started to adjust the sketch for the second move when the third arrived, and finally I ended up with a blind-contour-looking sketch which I have elected to post as a sketch for that day since after all that Is the sketch I did that day and I earned it! Besides, wonkey and mis-sized, my mother's teeny keds-clad feet look strangely cute to me...
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  1. Amy MannMay 30, 2011 at 1:32 PM

    Yes, very cute! And a lot of character. Reminds me of Richard Thompson's style in his "Cul de Sac" cartoon - my very favorite!

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