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
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day #98 - Meh

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It's feeling very monotonous; Admittedly I don't have the time to really paint these days; I'm too busy and I've been too busy for the last 9 months with only a one month interval in between. Hmm, it's true, I've been working 16h a day for weeks in a row with only short intervals in between. I'm not dead busy last month or so - merely 5-12h a day. But that is a lot too.

Anyway, no time to complain, I'm hoping to get to bed early today. So here's some design stuff I was doing today. For a start I'm happy that a long project is coming to its end. I'm worried that the final results is not going to justify the scope of the process but well what can be done! The other good stuff is that I'm putting to good use these kaleidoscopic symmetry guides and my mind is getting used the negative space and shape completion - gestalt stuff! Then I moved onto the daily practice of gestures, postures and hands. The postures are satisfying; they are readable, and I'm having extra time to work out the shape of the legs.  A few of the hands on the next sheet (eg the last one) look good but overall I still haven't gotten round to doing some studying. 

Finally, I need to remind myself that I'm glad ve been consistent in my practice - it's the 98th day that I haven't missed a drawing session and if all goes as it goes now, in 1-1,5 month I'll have the next quickposes certificate. Maybe I can stop then and focus on something else, perhaps rendering?  Or better more, story-telling?

That's all for now. Radio out...

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