day #99 - Insomniac relief
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Today, the 99th day in a row, what did I achieve? For a start I did design-work, creative work and practice. Let me digest that. I did design work, creative (loose) work and practice.
I started early in the morning thanks to my good ol' trustie insomnia. I did some exploratory - initially automatic doodles that had interesting aspects. I love drawing light values with a single brush. In this instance I drew a mountainous landscape covered with snow and two huts; overall quite okay; I love most the flatness of the snow-color and some plays with middle-ground and background contrast (I was swapping light and shadow on the planes). I like the fact that I included trees, something that I'm always very condescending towards.
The second semi-automatic drawing has nice line and gives the impression that there is a city of strange buildings.
Later on I did some ideation on the acorn theme. Here, I like how I did some inverse concepts (white on dark). Finally the daily practice was a series of 20x 45sec postures, then 10x 30sec gestures, 4x 180sec postures and 20x 30sec hands. I wasn't happy with the results and 45secs were to little for a complete posture. As a result I was quite stressed and antsy. Eventually I fell back to doing simple skeletons in that time and then some 30sec gestures instead. Now that I look at the postures, they look quite dynamic and balanced. While the proportions are not the best, and many have missing limbs, there are fine overall. The gestures are also dynamic (though not very gestur-y) and the longer postures have nice elements but fail overall. The hands had been a rush, but I feel they are good; they convey both the posture and the details. Plus, I'm starting to remember that I can draw fingers in one stroke and usually it's enough.
Overal it's been a decently productive day and this didn't feel like a cheat-day for sure. Hmm, think about it, I need to implement the concept of a cheat-day!
Time for bed, tomorrow is the 100th day and of course I still don't know when to stop...
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