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 #90 - Celebration?




So that's it! 90 days non-stop. That has to amount to something, shouldn't it? I don't know... It's a bit to big for my intellect. Anyway, let's get things from the start. I did some additional logos some of which came out very interesting - I thought I was flogging a dead horse but no sir! Then I went on doing some random doodles which funnily have story in them. Notice also how I've been building postures without a skeleton! I like the gloomy character on the 3rd strip, and the dancer(?) on the first one. I wrapped up for the day doing some gesture and posture practice, some 45sec ones and some 3min ones. I have quite a few favourites in here and I think I'm starting to differentiate the male from the female body. Overall they all look good to me, I think I've for the time being reached a limit? I don't know. There is a certain degree of ease (the opposite of stiffness perhaps?) in the poses that I enjoy and while the line is not as clean as I would had wanted it to be, it still feels solid. Perhaps I need to concentrate on the proportions now. Hands are still hit or miss but they work so no complaints.

And now that I've said all the kind words about my work of the day, what can and should I say about my commitment? 90 days... I don't know what that means... I don't even know why I'm doing it or when it will end. Obsessiveness. I've been reading some articles about the positive obsessiveness; not the destructive one but the one that makes you exceptional like Adam Savage, or Van Gogh. I don't know it's a very new concept though it's not so new after all. These days I'm not suffering my obsessiveness so I don't really mind. But the truth is that I got up this morning deeply sad - I don't know where this whole thing leads. I don't know anything... Except perhaps that I've always wanted to be good at drawing for the ability to tell a story, for the ability to express myself; a now that I pretty much can do it, I have nothing to say...

Anyway, time for bed, and for once it's only 2:10am - perhaps time to treat myself to reading some book! woohoo

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