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 #148 - dry bones?


So here's another day. I heard someone today commenting you should find a way to be proud that you did your (daily) effort and not focus on the result. Days such as today this is particularly relevant since the work I produced today hasn't been my proudest. So let's see, how do I reframe this? The positives!
For starters, I did indeed pick up my brush and did some work today, this is another step in the right direction, possibly the biggest. Then, there is that I managed to practice a bit faces though I feel like I've lost what I had been studying about skulls and head proportions, these feel very free-style. Nonetheless, this is head practice, lifting the lower boundary; that is progress.
Some of the heads have turned out very nice too. Especially the final sheet with the female torso. Again, these are all fineliner drawings with no sketch underneath.
The snowy town, is again a quick-doodle. But again, it's quite something for "a quick doodle", that's something to keep in mind.

So let's wrap up saying that today I had been working on raising the level of my "ugly" work, this feel strangely true.

In other news something inside me is craving to make something complete, not a one-off, improv sketch, but something that I will sketch, refine and then execute. Doesn't have to be too long a project; perhaps a full day worth of work, but something that is presentable.

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