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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Saturday, October 29, 2011

October 25, 2011

     Here is the third rotation of the scribble - a stylized horse head. It looks to me like it belongs on a Soviet poster from the 1920s. 
     I was having a very hard time with this rotation... I could "see" some things in it, but they would work okay for this little bit over here and then I couldn't see anything to do with the rest, or maybe something else for a different part but with the same problem... the rest wouldn't work in at all. Remember, the idea is to try to use all of the lines in the original scribble below, no erasures, and to try not to just over-ride or ignore a line. 
     So, there I sat in the wooden state of mental block when suddenly I saw this horse, as though it had been there all along. A horse, of course!
   
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  1. Amy MannOctober 29, 2011 at 8:10 PM

    Em, you're AMAZING! That circus sketch is just too much! I cannot do drawings from my imagination. You're so good!!!!!

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