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 #191 - Riding on

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It's a relief that today I started working "big" again (this time moving to my new studio - my balcony). I was afraid that I'd start another round of drawing heads and gestures on the iPad. I somewhat like today's piece, though there are certain parts of it that are cringe-worthy and now I'm looking for ways to accept them. Namely that deer.
Anyway, I enjoy lots of aspects of this work; the colors, the composition, the greens at the top; even the thematic of this piece that feels so much like some forest. Later on I did a 3D sketch in Gravity Sketch VR of something which reminds of an indian soldier riding a lizard. I'm very intrigued by this way of working: It's real sketching in 3D. This definitely belongs here.
Enough for today. Both pieces of work are incomplete with the Bambi Forest probably being the closest to being complete.
Before going to bed and after watching the lastest Mandalorian episode I felt very inclined to revisit the Rider in a painterly fashion. Eventually I never got around to doing that since I spent all the time doing some thumbnails. I tried to push the staging though I don't feel I've managed to make it pop. Still, almost of the thumbnails are okay, and the composition is also decent considering that I came up with 18 variants. Another reason to celebrate is that I did do the explorative work without jumping straight to the final one, something that I'm normally too lazy to do. Then again, given that I never managed to get past the point and I lose interest very fast, perhaps this is the only way for me to work - When in the mood to make a piece, jump straight in it; don't lose the momentum. And when time is even more limited, practice composition and staging. Finally, applaud to myself for using a tiny bit of references (I wanted to see the joints in the lizard limbs and fired up google search for that).

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