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!


Showing posts with label insect. Show all posts
Showing posts with label insect. Show all posts

Friday, September 23, 2011

September 22, 2001

    This is a cicada exoskeleton. There is a split in the back which I elected not to show, since in order to get a side view the slit would have been simply a line down the back. This drawing is very small - about three and a half inches square.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

May 4, 2011

    This is a chunk of branch I picked up in the woods. These branches, with their bark removed, have the trails and hallways carved out by beetle larvae as they eat their way along their dark paths. Some of them look more like netting, some more like strange alphabet characters from an alien language... secret beetle code.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

March 30, 2011



    An extremely fast sketch of a lacewing that volunteered for a few moments, hobbling about on my tightly pinched together forefinger and thumb, then fell off and "disappeared" almost as if it had disintegrated on the way down. Of course, it took off somewhere but I certainly didn't see it fly - too bad as I was going to liberate it outside.