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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and don't forget to check out older posts!

Saturday, November 5, 2011

November 2, 2011

    Well, tonight's drawing produced one of my "stinky fish". Too many people kept crowding into my space, annoying each other and me, the phone kept ringing, people arrived, despite saying "don't move those carrots" they got moved. And again. I got impatient (Knowing there wasn't a chance I'd find any "zone" tonight), and just scribbled... I even lost track of which carrot was where and scribbled the shading on the paper all wrong and had to go back in and just outline them sharply! Frankly, I was just getting it done. I suppose there will be nights like that...
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