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 #101 - To what end?

So what happens now that I've crossed 100 days? I don't know. I don't what will allow me to conclude this "infinite days challenge". Anyway, I keep moaning about it. Let's move on to something else. So today I did some 20x 45sec postures, 20x 30sec gestures and 4x 5min postures and finally 20x 45sec hand studies.  I'm happy with all of it. I still struggling to simplify but I feel there is life into the postures/gestures - though come to think about it, I didn't really do gestures today; I did mostly quick skeletons. Doing the postures was more exciting and I'm quite happy with most of them. I had the opportunity to work with the male body and nail down some muscles. Finally hands have been considerably better that other days. To wrap up I did some skulls trying to regain the ability to draw them I'm quite happy with most of them; It was obvious that I had already warmed up by that time; hands and bodies were alive and fast. I even did some exciting ones like the dancing fat people, the bandit and fishman. Then I tried some vehicle designs and some landscapes with beasts and finally a temple complex. I like most the fact that (and this is not the first time) that some times my hand is "warm". I don't know after how much time it is ready (could be somewhere between 30mins to 3h of preparation or something unrelated to time) but there is definitely a state that the hand is more "aligned" and "tuned" to my inner eye than normally. This has nothing to do however with creativity, or the ability to do beautiful stuff; merely with mind-to-hand coordination.

To wrap up, I'm happy I did this much practice today, that certain things are falling to place (I've even managed to draw thin legs) and how I'm discovering the body at a deeper level. Now I'm more worried about the cleanliness of my lines but I have not decided whether it's important (or even how to approach it).

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