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
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day #30 - Hideous Self-Portrait

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Insomnia again. Today, I was so grateful for the insomnia!  I woke up something like 9am  and eventually got off bed at 11am. I had counted 4h of sleep. Yet, as a result I had these extra morning hours to do a painting and a self-portrait was a good option. And what is more, when I finished work at 11pm, I didn't have to start painting for the day, I was already done; today I went out for a midnight-walk after a week of non-stop work.

My face is not so bloated or my eyes so small. But I like this bloated perspective so I enjoyed exaggerating it. I also innovated today and used the smudge tool. I hate the smudge tool; I was using it a lot when I got my first wacom (PenPartner) in the early to mid-90s and I got sick of it. Mostly because you could have something with sharp digital lines, and turn it into something looking like an oil-painting. Fake mastery. I hadn't used it for all this time. Procreate has a huge UI button for it but I was avoiding it like the plauge. Today I gave in. I still hate it. The fake smoothness, yikes. From far away it looks ok. From up-close, it looks like photoshop stuff.

Anyway, it's okay. I like the palette however; I used subtle colors (the shirt and background) and tried to create warmth and coolness by contrast. And that's all for tonight!

Oh, and that is the 30th day! I don't know what that means. I guess it just means that I won't be ending the blog today. Perhaps in another 30 days?

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