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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and don't forget to check out older posts!

Monday, July 18, 2011

July 17, 2011

    For today's sketching activity I finished the drawing of my daughter's leopard gecko Joey. Joey is a female, and she had toe damage when my daughter got her from someone who felt they could no longer keep her. Very recently she mysteriously lost most of her tail. We have come to suspect she was attacked by her much smaller and always (before) meek female cage mate. She has healed up nicely and has a soft, smooth, plump little tail. Both geckos are now happy hermits, living in solitary confinement.
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  1. AnonymousJuly 18, 2011 at 9:16 AM

    wonderful skin, shadows.....and a true personality comes thru too!

    cp

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  2. Amy MannJuly 18, 2011 at 9:45 PM

    poor blobby tail! Nice drawing.

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