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!
Click on any of the sketches to enlarge...
and don't forget to check out older posts!
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!
Click on any of the sketches to enlarge...
and don't forget to check out older posts!
Saturday, October 8, 2011
October 8, 2011
This is a drawing of a funky glass bottle made in China. I'm lucky I drew it this morning because the antics of our young, overly exuberant mountain cur raised the wrath of a yellow jacket and she took it out on my right hand (the dog being, apparently, too fast to catch). Half my hand is double it's normal size, and if it's not waaaaaaaaaay better by tomorrow evening I may just have to do tomorrow's sketch with my toes!
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a chance to get in touch with the other side of your brain and use the non-stung hand? Ice water soaks (which did wonders for my hiking-sore feet yesterday afternoon.....)?
ReplyDeleteWOnderful bottle, the treatment of the very bottom especially!
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