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 #150 - Disney

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Today has been a day. I tell myself that I did well. The inner voice proclaims that "though you haven't done anything creative, you've at least done some extensive practice - and in this case quantity beats creativity". There is this sadness and despair for not doing anything creative (some narrative, some color something). But there is the satisfaction that I was productive.

I wasn't planning on grabbing the ipad but accidentally I started doodling, and then kept at it. I filled three sheets with faces, skulls trying to reconstruct the knowledge I'm supposed to have assimilated over these years of studying now that I have some distance from it and don't remember much. I like it. 

Then I did a sheet full of disney's tarzan - I don't do that much; as a kid I did but not these past decades. Then again I'm not completely foreigner to it - like the day I was doing Steven universe poses or another day I was studying the proportions of the face of some nameless disney-like princess. Anyway, I wanted to see how disney did tarzan, and try and approach it with my own constructive knowledge of the skull. It was nice. I hadn't notice how simplified disney's eyes/nose/mouth. I guess this is specific to tarzan; probably some other disney film will follow different rules. Anyway, I liked it, I like the muscles too, it was as if disney was pointing out to me which muscles are worth presenting in a simplified drawing.

I was afraid I'd be hooked up in the ipad, and be drained. Perhaps that's what made me pick up my brushpen and do some physical sketching. I started with a random scene; i like the vehicle, the perspective, the texture in the circular building. That was the most creative I got today. Then I fell back to some imaginative tiny figure drawing. I started simple and as the time was progressing, I was doing more and more exotic poses. Towards the end I started doing apes (inspired by Tarzan) and I had a blast. I've very excited that I did such poses. I filled another sheet with ink silhouettes and I tried sketching the light/shadow play. That was very successful but also a very taxing exercise. Postures come out stiffer than usual. 

I'm really thirsty for some illustration/narrative, something with a beginning and an end, and not just exercises, random doodles. But I feel empty. Then again, I don't try so I wouldn't know. Time for bed.

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