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 #347 - 21 days - correction 18 days

Today I took out my pocketbrush (unfortunately the rotring ink is not good fit, it's drying and wearing out the hair probably due to low fluidity) and my watercolors and did sketching on cheap paper. I'm enjoying this process; it's always very rich in productivity, low on risk and usually produces 2-3 good instaworthy sketches that will allow me to do filler posts.
Today's work was mostly figurative. I'm quite satisified; seems that yesterday's studying of the Discobolus wasn't useless and I came up with more understanding of the body. I believe that if I keep doing it, I'll build a good understanding of the major muscles, and boney protrusions of the male body.
I was also feeling in a very dancey-mood, and I was trying to create postures pushing the human body. While many didn't exactly work out (eg. my Icaruses) I still feel they were almost there. Not in terms of results (this was very off) but I could feel that I missed something minor that I'll eventually get. Plus there is life in the bodies already despite their deformities. Overal a good day that boosted my sense that I'm "learning" the body and added to my inspiration in studying it.

I discovered that I had mis-numbered the last few posts so I'm 18 days away from the end. These days I'm trying to be more mindful of writing the post and more appreciative of the opportunity. After all, it's been a good year.

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