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, December 7, 2011

December 3, 2011

    This is a very small drawing too... I am just not well enough (no voice!) to go out and buy myself a new sketch pad and I'm running out of paper so I've done the last, this and next sketches on the same page! The shadows on this metal pencil sharpener were interesting - it would have been interesting to do them in color as the lighter areas on the left had a luminous blue cast while the ones on the right glowed in an odd yellow.
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