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 #14 - Super Chicken, Victorious

I'm starting to come to terms with the fact that on the one hand I haven't committed to doing this blog daily, but on the other hand I can't seem to allow myself to not do it daily. Maybe today I wasn't too overwhelmed either, but (speaking for today at least) I can appreciate the fact that I'm doing "efforts" for my craft.

Today's Artwork was rather satisfying. It is on rare occasions that I feel comfortable using the word artwork since most of the time I'm merely filling sheets with disjoint doodles; whereas today there is a story, a narrative; and not random objects in one composition page. Again, I went back to using the cheap paper where I feel so much more comfortable.

In the last 20 years it's probably been less than 10 times that I've used pencil. Today, it's been one of these days; I did a pencil sketch, and only then did I put the fineliner to use. I erased the pencil (wow!) and then used the watercolors. I keep forgetting that pencil is not my enemy, but  I picked the habit of working always with ink in order to build up confidence and acceptance of mistakes. However good as a practice this might be (I recommend it) it's an unnecessary handicap for final pieces: why make do with faulty perspective or wrong bodily proportions just in an attempt to never undo?
I just realized that this is a reflection of my obsession with commitment too. The way even doodles and loose sketches are made in ink, preventing me from ever revoking any line, the same way I won't allow myself to revoke things such as this blog. Probably one should know when to use ink and when to use pencil.

Anyway, I enjoyed making something complete -a character, clothes and a little hamlet in the background. I realize now that the horizon is a bit low, and at least the left part doesn't recede too nicely towards the horizon. Also what kind of a flat world is that? No mountains whatsoever? As a sidenote I was inspired by the hamlets and churches that Van Gogh was sketching/painting. Finally the banner doesn't say "Sup(e)r Chick" but Sup(e)r Chicken Victorious". Don't ask, I just wanted to write something.
I like the color palette - again sky is yellow, but what can I say!

As a side-note I spent more time writing the javascript to keep the archive expanded on the sidebar, than I did for this blog-post which tells a bit about my conflicting interests.

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