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 #47 -Insomniac Automatic Drawing

Yesterday I watched a video on Proko's youtube channel where he was interviewing a comics artists who apparently was important; I didn't know him, but I knew Kirby and Moebius, and he had worked with both. And he introduced an drawing/painting meditative/relaxing exercise that Moebius would practice: You empty your mind, and allow doodly forms to come out of it. Day and day again, and this is highly creative. I liked the idea since it promide unwinding, non-judgement, and more creativity and thought I should practice it.
Today I woke up after 3 or 4h of sleep so I got up ready to do my self-portrait but I decided this might be some good opportunity to try out the exercise. I really like the end result. While I'd rather I was doing that with actual ink and not the ipad, it was very inspiring. Composition-wise I love all of them. Some of them are particularly impressive to me. The self-criticism goes to "wait, what? is that what you're going to do? doodle for eternity? How's this going to make me better?". But undoubtedly, it's more alive, and there is "something" in the result that I can't seem to find in my rigid, practiced daily artworks, something very stark. I was going to say strong but I needed something stronger :P
Anyway, time for a movie, and bed.

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