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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Showing posts with label lizards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lizards. Show all posts

Saturday, May 28, 2011

May 23, 2011

    These are some sketches of my daughter's wild-type geckos. They were almost constantly moving, so I could only get bits and pieces in two second snatches and then try to touch up each quick "grab" using later similar poses. The top head, for instance, is much too round. Theirs look more like the top left and bottom right head shapes. 
    I'll finish posting my "visit sketches" tomorrow... I am in danger of splitting my head open yawning!

Thursday, May 5, 2011

April 29, 2011

     These are bits of skin shed from two types of lizards:  A green iguana to the left (with a foot piece), and an Australian bearded dragon to the right - both the spikey piece and the bit with the keeled scales.