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!

Sunday, November 6, 2011

November 4, 2011

    For quite some time, I have been intending to make a sampler of textures... to try out some combinations of stippling, cross-hatching, smudging, sharp point or flat of the graphite "lead" and so on which I wasn't always finding opportunities to play with in drawing specific objects. 
    Here, I did that - and then just to pull it all together and give a nod to the patchwork of Autumn tree colors out there (even though in black and white), I made the sampler patch into a stick tree, complete with falling texture-patch leaves.
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  1. Amy MannNovember 7, 2011 at 6:47 PM

    Even your tests and exercises are whimsical! You should check out Van Gogh's drawings to really see some textural mark-making!

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