Sketch A Day 2011: earth

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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Friday, April 22, 2011

April 18, 2011

Here's an Earth Day sketch - I've used a traditional Apache cradle (which is normally laced back and forth across the baby/ papoose) as Earth's cradle with representatives of Earth's species strung on the laces as the web of life. The Apache woman is, of course, Mother Earth, and she is clothed in her continents. The continents are distorted and not at all placed in relative positions, but the planning that would involve would have added significantly to the time needed, so I've left it up to the viewer to imagine they can discern some familiar outlines...