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!

Sunday, November 13, 2011

November 13, 2011

    A quick line drawing of a kholrabi from the Farmers' Market will do for tonight. I wasn't sure what this odd purple thing was, although I see them around, so I had to look it up in image search once I got it home. 
    Someone was asking why I picked out a vegetable I had no clue about... and the answer is that I wanted to draw it, of course! Still, we are always willing to try eating a new vegetable. Some are better than others - my sons suffer for my art!
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