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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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

October 4, 2011

    We finished up some Chinese food tonight. Most of it comes in plastic micro-wave safe containers any more, but the rice still comes in these white shirt cardboard "goldfish" containers, so I rinsed one out and drew it... then got out a few grains of rice to add. 
    I did this my "lazy way" by starting to the right and moving to the left across the page, without measuring or - more importantly here - aligning lines according to perspective rules... which is why the perspective is a bit off. Even when I just go with my "lazy way" I keep meaning to move left to right to avoid the smudging... but it seems right to left is my no-brainer default way of working, especially when I'm tired. 
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  1. Amy MannOctober 5, 2011 at 9:28 PM

    Very nice! Those containers are ingenious, aren't they?

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