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 #25 - Headdays


Cheap paper, confident doodles with a fineliner. I just wanted to get through the day's offering. I discovered some interesting things; I still haven't studied planes of the head; I just try to guess the shadows through my theoretical studies of light as a kid. I know, it's not the way to approach it unless you are a raytracer. Anyway, I found very interesting that for many of the heads I'd paint a first arc, decide the angle and then visualize it on paper. In a sense I was tracing from my imagination! Anyway, I also tried to do the same skull in most instances - it's okay I guess. Finally I took black (payne's gray) watercolor and started filling the in-between space, and then colors to shade the skulls. I guess it makes these dull random doodles somewhat more interesting for posterity. It's a waste of ink and time, since I could be doing 10 head rotations in the same time, but it makes it so much more rewarding. And right now, I need painting/drawing to feel rewarding. I don't care if I improve right now. I need the motivation more than the higher skill. I also like the vehicle; I'm starting to work with sumbtly angled surfaces and still make them readable. I also like the tires a lot! For a very ugly paper, I like a lot the results in it!

I am having trouble digitizing these images; my scanner sucks and my mediocre samsung phone will only produce clean images with a flash-light. Eventually I try and remove vignetting and fix the color-balance to most accurately achieve a flash-less result but still it always feels so much more dull/harsh/denim/vintage than the high-ISO natural lighting photos. I also try to correct the wobbly paper with mesh transformations but this always spoils the proportions...

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