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 #153 - Explosive Doodles!

Awesome day; one of those that you don't want to go to bed because you're so productive. I started with a watercolor sketch where I particularly liked the mountains in the horizon. Then I did some ellipses practice and finally started doodling. This was the good part. Humans and animals in various poses and orientations in space, buildings, skulls, winged angels and spooky trees! I did a bulky, shaded, head from various angles and various expressions, and wrapped up with very interesting sheet: Half of it was boxes rotated in 3D space with skulls, heads, and fantastic beasts encapsulated inside and the second half has been a crazy composition of ruins in a desert with long shadows. A non-linear perspective, and trying to describe shapes by their long shadows. It was fascinating sketching all that! Some (like the temple on the left) was designed first and then I tried calculating (imagining) the shadows whereas the tower and the circular sanctuary at the bottom left was designed after the shadow. Lots of nice stuff today; shading, texture, shadows, form, crazy complex perspective... 

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