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 #210 - Falling Apart

Today I've started a new piece (I've run out of white pastel and paper which is not fun). I don't know how this will turn out; it might end up a good rocky terrain, or a bad rocky terrain. For now I've enjoyed the more limited palette and exploring the local contrast. Later, as I was about to go to bed, and in line with the late agitation that is particularly strong right before bed time (with me usually ending up tarring for a couple of hours before finally going to bed) I decided to fire up my iPad, enter discord and stream a bit. Unfortunately I was along in the room but then again this allowed me to be more concentrated. I did some doodling I'm quite satisfied with - bodily poses with well defined muscles, nice shading, perspective and even a couple of half-bakes narrative scenes! Overall nice to see that this part of me is still there waiting to be tapped into since lately I've started again to compare (and despair) my self to all the great masters "ah, the hack, I'm just doing abstract crap since I can't do anything with any definition". 
Sadly, I'm starting to believe that my apple pencil is broken which is a bummer. Not so big since I was going to replace all the system with a new ipad air and unavoidably with a pencil 2, but this means that my pencil had 1,5 years of life which is quite sad if you think about it. Makes me also wonder what else is falling apart.
Makes you appreciate physical media where if something falls apart, you can easily replace it with 2-15€ (if it's the most expensive paintbrush).
Time for bed!

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