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 #17 - Doodles

Saturday. Today I managed not to do anything work-related. Even doodling I did casually, partially on the phone! I'm very glad about it. What can I say about it? I like the vehicles of the day; I've also never drawn a car so freely; until now it was a conforming to cubes and perspective and it was all so constructive and tight; now finally, there was a creativity, using the sketch for exploring curves! It's an interesting development because I had resigned to the thought that car-designers are a mystical being of artistic genius.
Come to think about it, I had fallen into a trap. Before studying perspective using Scott Robertson's How to Draw book I could draw curvy vehicles. I lost that ability when I started working with the strictly accurate techniques that Scott Robertson teaches in his amazing otherwise book. I had imagined that I'd have to reach master-level before I could ever use perspective in a creative way, but then again I had forgotten that I could already use it eyeball it in a creative way without having reached fully mastery in perspective.  In a sense I stepped back to the same skills I was using before I started studying. But at the same time, I managed to transfer a small percentage of the newfound understanding in it! In the paradigm of the "know the rules well before you break them" (the equivalent of master them before you use them freely) I have to add "As long as you pretend you don't know them, they won't bother you. Plus you'll be able to tap into them for added benefit". It seems the topic is Integration of knowledge.
What else stands out? The hair-strands on the girl's head above the car. This hair rendering is over the years becoming a trademark of mine. I enjoy drawing hairs. Enough for tonight!

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