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 #269 - Complex Dynamics v7

Not the best mood today, but I managed to resume working on the piece; I fixed the thing I had already decided to and I believe I've now wrapped up. Tomorrow (or whenever) I'm going to verify everything is fine, do the photoshooting, and fixate it.
It's been a long time that I haven't done any posture or "pretty girl" practice and today as I was feeling reluctant to get to bed, I decided to do a late night session of doodling. In retrospection I can't say whether this decision was because I'm used to speed-doodling on discord and my brain wanted to sustain the anxiety feeling that it was already feeling, or whether I was provoked (won't say inspired) by the movie King of Staten Island that I just watched where the protagonist was doodling and did a quite professional comic-styled superhero design, but despite the level of this work of his, he was turned down for a job at a tattoo shop where the owner told him "I could draw that well when I was 14" - but I did it anyways and now it's 5am.
Overall I'm fairly satisfied. Wish I had more days such a desire to paint/draw (I feel that I usually run out of creative juices too early in my day). It's a plus that this doodling is also helping me sharpen my figure-drawing skills that have fallen behind. I need to study anatomy a bit more formally because somethings are still a puzzle and no matter how I try I can't land on the right answer by mere experimentation. I'm glad that there is the desire for that! In these doodles, I tried and went wild with the poses and I felt unrestrained by my technique (not to say that the poses were perfect, but that there wasn't anything that I wanted to do and could approach which is already something I'm really proud of). I also like the quick and simple silhouettes at the bottom that have a narrative element in them. Time for bed now.

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