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 #68 - Creativity Inc


So here we are today, with something completely different; I've been brainstorming for a B&B villa logo design. I don't do it too often, but I enjoy the occasional ideation process. Come to think about it, it's the closest I get to systematically creative: Work a concept again and again from different angles until you get 4-5 ideas that are worth actualizing.

At some point I realized I hadn't drawn for today but realized this is good enough; while not practice, it's definitely been related. I just remembered however that I haven't done gesture/posture practice yet, and my heart has sunk - since I was on a 8 day streak that will break tonight. Well, I could start doing it now, but that would mean I won't get to sleep enough today too and not sure the healthy choice is indulging my completion-ism or resting. Funny, when I say it, it's obvious! I need rest and relaxation more than I do need practice; yet the opium of the streak is... strong.

Anyway, what about the logos? They are all rough explorations so nothing that looks nice out of the box; but there have been a certain few that I can imagine them looking nice! I'm stuck between the organic and the linear but we'll see that later on.

Let's see. How about I do 10 minutes gesture drawing, lose the streak, but win both the sense of progress and the sense of self-care? Good idea. (who am I kidding?)
hmm, done - 10 minutes; 20x 30second gestures and postures; Apparently 30seconds is too little for a posture (skeleton) - I keep missing limbs; usually the arms; but gestures? Wow, the first two were very satisfying! I feel like some chinese master! Anyway, I'm happy about it. If I could only do extra twenty minutes to be awarded the streak... Oh well, farewell my 9-day streak, time for bed.

Interesting how I've reached 68 days - last time I checked, I was at 60.

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