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 #142 - Inkstreams

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Second day trying to "paint what I see in my mind's eye" and I'm very satisfied! As soon as I wrote down second day a thought arose in me “oh oh, I hope I don’t make another open-ended commitment out of it”. This gets me thinking now about my relationship to commitment; from certain angles it seems as if I’m overcommitting, whereas it’s also undeniable that I’m so afraid of commitment to the point of avoiding so much that life has to offer (from relationships, jobs, owning property).

Anyway, before I get to psychoanalytical, today has been a good day. I spent most of it reading Lucifer (the comic) in bed and when I got up I was so hyped and inspired to draw. I did 5 pieces with ink; the first one was done using my good old trusty pentel pocketbrush and the next two (2nd and 3rd) were done with the new pentel brushpen that I got. I find it too dry for my taste, but that allows for texturing. The next two were done using kool-i-noor’s drawing ink; one with the ink undiluted and the other one with water. Mostly I did the final piece as a way to clean the brush since the ink was drying to fast on the hair and it’s the only one where I was not using my mind’s eye to render the scene.

I’m very satisfied with all of them. The gateway, the trees, the trunk, and the shed in the 3rd piece (which was actually done first), the bottom-up perspective in the second piece with the angels; the ligth and the details in the building in the background (2nd piece). I also excited about the SciFi themed first scene, with the smaller spaceship hovering in front of the bigger one, the turbines, the shaded plains, the vehicle, the glass windshield, even the composition though I butched it remained somewhat interesting.

The next piece (4th) was already tired and I’m satisfied with the perspective and shading  but I think it’s a bit boring and the most interesting think about it is the contrasting textures; the shirt, the mountains, and the building. Finally, regarding the last piece, I like the composition, the paper-coverage with ink, the pelvic tilt an the hair.

Enough for today. 

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