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 #112 - Freedom from habit?

 


It's 6:23am and I still haven't gone to bed. Yet I realized that I hadn't uploaded today's work and couldn't leave it for tomorrow, so I decided to do it. Not that it does make any sense; so much for the freedom from habit.

Anyway, studied the skull and planes of the head a bit more today. It's a difficult topic that I haven't managed to crack yet, mostly because I don't understand what is it that I should study.

Anyway, I did slight progress on understanding the skull/planes, did some nice skull drawings and wrapped up with a doodle is all but interesting. But at least I put some color, a palette that I find pretty and finished the day with a colorful note. Extra points for that!

At the same time I listened to an online artist saying that "you don't have to waste your life studying the fundamentals, but have to stop at some point" and this I feel that has started making some sense finally. Indeed, perhaps, there is no such thing such as mastery on the fundamentals and perhaps I can be more brief in my visiting these topic; not doing 2 years of head gestures, before starting the planes.

The speaker made also a mention in the trap of spending hours "practicing", and then the next day doing that again, never starting something more creative whereas the creative stuff is the important one. I feel again, that this was more convincing than hearing myself say it. I hope the following days, I change this balance. Time for bed.

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