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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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

October 11, 2011

     This is a 2B graphite drawing of a tomatillo husk. It is the leaf-like covering that protects the tomatillo until it's ripe. You peel them off to use the tomatillo and throw these out. The cellulose veins throughout them must be somewhat tougher than is usual in leaves because whereas some leaves do turn to "lace" when the softer parts get decayed and eaten out by insects, tomatillo husks almost always turn to lace when they weather outside on a compost heap. 
     I'd planned to draw one of these several days ago, but you can see where a puff of wind would carry them away... so I had to find a new one. In fact, I was just about finished with this drawing when I gave a huge sigh and my model poofed off the table... drawing done! 
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2 comments:

  1. Amy MannOctober 12, 2011 at 8:42 PM

    This is really beautiful, and what Patience! Definitely a Keeper.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 13, 2011 at 6:39 AM

    What amazes me in this one is the shadow of something that is practically a shadow itself. And the places where you can see through one side to the other......

    cp

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