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 #106 - stale bread

And here we are, the day after struggling to replicate the same success, but failing miserably! It hurts, but then again, it doesn't hurt as much as it did. I'm not that happy with postures today, but then again it's not all doom and gloom; they are still indicative of the actual posture, and given that these are all new and complex ones, I am reluctantly satisfied.

I did some work on the logo (I vectorized it) and started testing typography which is good since I need to slowly wrap up the project. Finally, I got on discord again, exposed myself to chatter and did my best to get into the mood of creative doodling. It was a very stressful situation with all the people and the fact that I was trying to live up to my yesterday's success made it all the more stressful. I doodled a lot, A for effort; I tried and tried and only at the very end (which actually came 2h later since I was desperate to leave on a high note) did I come up with something enjoyable and pleasing: A futuristic Baghdad. I like the brushwork, the looseness of the sketch and the thickness of the lines! I like the perspective and the life of that world; full of people, vehicles and history. 

 

What do I keep? the fact that the overall failure to repeat the success didn't  discourage me too much. And with that, I'm heading to bed!

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