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 #299 - Two Ninety Nine Doodling and The Sermon of the Conceited Buddha

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Today has been a rich day in terms of production. It's a bit difficult balancing the newly-found sense of having to "perform" (for instagram audiences) and a free-roaming creativity, but last night I had already created a "post" for today so I took the day off the radar and did some unceremonious work. It's nice having an extensive backlog like the one I do since this allows me to at times post older pieces. works in progress, or merely art-related fun stuff instead of my production. As a result, a single day's producting could fuel multiple days of posting. I'm saying all that, to get the pressure of me.
Anyway, regarding today's work, I (finally!) picked up again that old buddha painting that was resting in the kitchen and did some work on it. This served a triple purpose; I got one step closer to emptying up one of my 3 woodboards (and kitchen space), it was a rough (and not very "precious" piece) that I could work without worrying too much that I will ruin (since I haven't done pastels in a few days), and thirdly, after a long long time, I finally felt that I could work on the piece and this was something I couldn't pass up.
The piece started taking shape and I'm quite satisfied with it despite it feeling like a puzzle. Reason is that the general forms had already been laid down (randomly) and I had to conform which is very difficult at this stage. I'm worried that it might not survive my next attempt, but for now it's going well. I particularly liked the thoughtful non-buddha's face and posture: There is something genuine about it.
Later in the evening, I started doodling. This has been an excellent doodling session; for two reasons: First of all, I managed to relax and allow myself to draw characters without caring about the end result. This helped me slow down a bit more and focus on understanding eyes somewhat more. Drawing eyelids have been a pain. I also did two panels, with perspective (very proud of my perspective lately - I'm starting to overcome those errors that would ruin the pieces and work around them) and shading. I'm very proud about them! The first one in particular was how I imagined a scene in a book I was reading last night, so extra kudos for visualizing something world-related! That's all for now, time for rest!

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