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 #107 - DAD: Draw All Days

I liked the above phrase. Dad, draw all days. There is the belief that if you draw everyday, you improve. I don't know if it's true, buy I remember a few months back coming across and it felt natural. Then again, at other periods of my life I had come to the realization that if I give myself "downtime", time away from drawing this speeds up learning since you also need time to digest. Often always, the biggest improvements were not when I was practicing, but the long stretches of time that I wouldn't practice.


Anyway, today had been pretty productive. Other than ellipses, I did lots and lots of doodles (I'm starting to think that it might be time to break them into separate sheets because they get lost in their miniature size. Anyway, lot's of cool stuff here; buildings, cards, statues in nice dynamic poses, perspective, machinery, heads, successful attempts at foreshortening and what not; wild beasts, mosques, tomes, robots, aliens, simplistic cartooney characters, antlers, nice shoes, diverse body types, strange illustrative styles (perhaps I'm onto something?) with extra fine/sharp lines and smooth shadings, horse-like beasts, spaceships, alien cowboys, and above all, more understanding in muscles of the legs, the shoulders and discovering the rhythm in the arms!

And then I did some gesture/posture drawings. I did only 30-45sec ones, since by that time I was wasted, and I also did 30sec head studies from reference that I hadn't done before. I'm very satisfied with all that; bodily gestures are consistently alive, hands are starting to be more often hit than miss (I'm even trying different hand-styles) and head gestures  are interesting! I wanted to study eye, facial expressions and noses, and never really thought that a way to do that would be simply by repeated gesture practice.

Today I also worked on the typography of the logo which I hope to finish at some point.

That's all for today. The tl;dr? I'm improving, and I'm being creative these days; these endless random doodles are paying off!

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