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 #36 - Peaceful Monster

I got a bit stressed towards the end; It was 2am and I was still working; so I rushed it all towards the end. When I put the brush down I was tense. At least I had finished painting for the day. A part of me is instantly judging - you can't call these sketches paintings; and could be true. And the other voice says "what makes you think that spending 30, 60 or 120mins doing lame sloppy sketch will help you improve, that these will amount to anything?".

I don't know, perhaps it's futile. Perhaps I'm even moving in the wrong direction. Thank god that today this is merely an idea; I'm too tired to even believe it.

So what about today's art. The vehicles. I have 9 LEGO pieces on desk that were found in the trash of some friend and I keep combining them into different spaceships. I wonder if there are any concept artists/vehicle designers out there that use LEGO as brainstorming idea; I mean why not? if silhouettes can work, and inspiration by everyday appliances is good, why not LEGO too?

Anyway, out of the dozens of different spaceship designs that I have produced with these 9 pieces, today I sketched one of them. And then I started imagining it from other angles until I started composing them into a swarm of drones flying around a giang cosmic ...monster whatever.

What did I like about today's work? For a start I like payne's gray - I'm glad it's part of my watercolor kit. While unnecessary (since it's another dark blue) it's very fun to use. I liked filling a big surface with it. I also liked the eye formation with their shadows and reflections. The rotation of the vehicle. Somewhat the vehicle design. I liked doing some line-weight control in this piece. I like how it fills the whole page, and that's pretty much all of it. I wish I could come up with a more original palette, but hey, at least it works!

And now, time for bed!

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