day #365 - the end of an era

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I thought I was on top of it; I had finished early and was looking for a movie to watch already 3 hours ago. And I don't know how time went by. A phonecall, some networking studying, some online shopping and here we are, already past the time for an early movie. Regardless, today is a special day. The blog is over! I finished 365 days of daily painting and recording it, whatever that means. A big part of the process I will have to keep doing mainly for myself. Perhaps taking daily photos of my work and saving it on some folder. This has provem useful many times when I trying to date a piece I've been working on. Also making a small diary of today's achievements. It's still useful. But this will be done for my eyes only. I also don't know if I will be continuing my obsessively daily painting. How would life be if I had days off? Now for example that I'm moving out and I have to daily chores that until now were completely taken care of, perhaps I'll allow my

day #11 - Speeding Vehicles, Perspective and Rendering

One of the few days that I started drawing before midnight. At first I just finished a page with doodley vehicles. I'm satisfied with the designs - something is starting to fall into place; I'm starting to discover a more organic way of creating vehicles that are not built on blocks like lego, but follow perspective.
When I finished I decided to shade them since last time's shading had been very fun (and besides I need the practice with light). It also makes the end result much much more pleasing to the eye, and I'm all for creating things pleasing to my eyes.

The second page was an attempt to make a perspective composition out of cubes in random/complex rotations. As I was stacking cubes I decided to plant other primaries (cone, disk, sphere) and some vehicles as well. I did one X-wing and one Enterprise for a balanced composition. Then I started creating a staircase and a building compound with gardens around it. When I finished it I wasn't very happy with the coloring - it was vert dull and muddy, but now that it's dried, it's passable. Again I tried my best to shade the scene. The staircase wasn't very successful. I'm sure it's quite easy to make one, and I have a couple further approaches to making it before I bother looking it up; but I don't worry, I'll solve the puzzle!

Finally right before bed, I illustrated a speeding snail in the vain of "Turbo"; more as a surprise easter egg for a friend of mine. I wasn't sure whether I should include it here, but then again why not...

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