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!

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

November 9, 2011

    Here's the drawing of the candelabra bulb with a strong light on it. I enjoyed doing this drawing, but find the shorter shadow odd-looking and somewhat confusing. 
    In this case, the actual drawing looks better than the scan shown. I many cases, I like the scan better. Since they are supposed to be identical (except for the slight shadow that sometimes creeps in where the sketch pad tends to bend up away from the scanner bed near the spiral back), I'm not sure why they so often strike me as almost imperceptibly different, yet with a difference where I have a decided preference. Someday I will figure that out...
Posted by at
Labels: ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)