day #365 - the end of an era

Image
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 #224 - Cityscape Duelists and Expectations

This has been a good day. I resumed working on my pastel painting (I'm starting to feel it's dragging, but since natural light is limited I can't work more than 1-2h per day so it's not that long a painting altogether).
I was done for the day, so I wasn't planning on doing anything else art-related today, but I got a substitute apple pencil that I wanted to test and logged onto Discord to do some extensive doodling. Eventualy I filled two sheets. I'm not even sure the pencil works better than mine. But in the process I did some extra, unexpected work. In other words, I'm happy with the production yield of the day.
So, what did I like about my work today? The pastel painting has become a meditative act where I render bounce lights on solids and I am definitely enjoying it a lot. Good thing I'm not feeling eager to move on to some new piece (like the constant feeling merely a couple months ago in the studio). This painting also allows me to practice color, which is nice and long-overdue. While painting, I trying to modulate the color of an object by combining the object's color and the bounched/direct light color cast.
The doodles on the first sheet where quite simplistic but the second one was more interesting (remember to pay tribute to the narrative and world-building gods!). I had a run-in with perspective, architecture, and vehicles. I particularly like (ie feel inspired by) the giant anime-cat spaceship design, and the postures of the duelists (as well as the giant robot in the background). This is probably one of the most interesting stagings I've done too - I can count 6 planes (foreground, midground, background and three more in between) which feels very alive and cinematic. A happy accident I'd say, Some time I'll study it a bit to understand why it seems to be working. That's all for now, time for bed.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

day #2 - Skulls, Perspective and Vehicles

day #223 - Colorizing

day #175 - back to Sketching