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 #134 - Perspective and shading

Today, I feel good for stepping back into something more structured. I had yesterday filled a page with blue and today I went on sketching things out. I did some perspective play, trying to get the buildings with their own vanishing points; and vehicles in their own altitudes; a sort of  one-point perspective that turns into two-point-perspective. In that respect, I’m very satisfied, I was eyeballing it and except two buildings, the rest feel fine. Then I started shading them, and doing cast shadows which I’m very excited about; I’ve finally cracked into my mind the whole deal with cast shadows; I like how problem free it came despite zero-planning and  the final result doesn’t look to bad either; composition-wise, it’s also decent.

Highlight (in terms of training) has been the bolt-shaped turbines at the vertical spaceship on the left, that I created with frugal brush-strokes for shadows and I think I succeeded finally.

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