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 #254 - Tooncess

Very glad about today's work. It's already 5:15am, I am far past my bedtime and I still need an hour/an hour and a half before I can go to bed; but I'm not freaking out. What is more, today seeing that it was already very late and that I wanted to watch some movie or TV series episode, I decided that I wouldn't push myself too hard to paint something and instead do something minimal (merely as a gesture towards my improvement). I had a quick flash of some cartoony female bust and decided to do that and do it on paper for a change. Funnily it kept me entertained for hours and while the end result is not too great, I enjoyed the process a lot! As a piece, it's a tough sell: There is pretty nothing that I like about it (palette? composition? anatomy? face? lighting? cleanliness of line art? line-weight? none). Yet I feel that in a few months I'll be sympathetically seeing it in my stack of small paintings.
For this piece I did a quick pencil(!) sketch of the face and body and then inked it (sadly the initial line-weight was much nicer, but I re-did it with a thicker uglier line and had to see it through). I enjoyed however doing the intentional watercolor gradiends, mixing lineart with watercolors and testing my sakura pigma soft tip pens which I had no reason to use until today (I let them dry for an hour or so) and they turned out 100% waterproof (despite the wetness of the whole piece). I also enjoyed drawing the background. Enough for today.

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