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!

Friday, November 11, 2011

November 10, 2011

    Okay... I'm not really skipping a day in there; I flipped the dates so I could pretend I had the birthday cake on the real, correct, actual birthday! Shenanigans...
    This is an antique bottle opener with a handle made out of polished horn. During this period they also made quite a few things out of imitation horn, imitation ivory and so on. Many of those things are actually pretty cool too!
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