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!


Monday, November 28, 2011

November 23, 2011

    Here's a drawing of a belt... probably from the army surplus store. Throughout my childhood we used these along with the metal, canvas-jacketed canteens to carry water on hikes. 
    The odd dark stripe is the edge of the surface it's on. It doesn't carry the idea well at all. I shouldn't have included it, except the shadow fell off the edge and looked odd to me when I extended it so I put in the edge, and now That looks odd... pay no attention to the thick dark line...

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