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Adding something personal.
Exactly like a year ago, I was in my laptop working on some personal projects and after 4 or 5 hours of non-stop working my heart started to beat very painfully fast, I just ignore the pain and keep working but 30 min later was impossible to keep working, so I went to the doctor, and simply I was diagnoses with a slight scoliosis, slight enough to press on my heart nerves and cause me an actual pain that sometimes is not so easy to handle, but more important than the doctor forbade at all to be seated on my laptop working for no more than 2 hours per day. To the point I'm talking about this personal problem because anything have stopped me to reach my dream, no one thing can stop you looking and making your way of the things that you love and one of the "must have" things that should have an artist is love in the hands and mind to do what it most loves, because this diagnosis haven't stop me from what I want, yes sounds childish but I'm still having dreams and personally I though that having the heart of a child makes you live forever.
Returning to the art thing.
I have been working very hard finally in anatomy sculpt or been putting more attention in full body sculpt, so these last two weeks I have been trying to complete some day challenge as a full body and I have been getting slightly better since the beginning, next up some examples:
day_122 Final Render at:
This must be day_132 Work in progress.
Back to words.
From day_29 I made a huge jump in day_122 like... I just can't explain it right now but here I'm improving my "anatomy" skills going through repetition and perseverance, over and over again repeating moves and giving memory to my hand in every sculpt because I see now that my way to complicate things in this challenge is finally fruitful to me and of course I need to add that back to day_27, _29, I was just having 30 min limit time to make that body and in most recent days I'm using just 120 min time limit to create the daily sculpts, I know these sculpts have some mistakes, and there is something good in looking into mistakes because this makes you aware of what you are missing and prepares you to not make the mistake again, to fix it and the best way to reach perfection is going through mistakes to never come back and repeat them, repetition is the key on this post.
These last days, I notice that I'm getting through anatomy in general just running sculpts related to monsters with deformations or robots (mecha) totally shaped by chunks and pieces and this is not the conventional way to learn it, but it works, it's working for me perfectly, yes, I must be wrong and this will be not the best advice you can receive in your art career, but is working, all of this time before day_122 I have been sculpting tons of monster, quad-legs or six-legs, a bunch of monster bust with some human aspects anatomy and this gave me the best position to restart full body sculpts like I'm showing in day_122, and yes this is a kind of monster I know but it have more humanoid shape and this type of sculpts are approaching into human body anatomy and that's what I wanted from the beginning to be honest so I chose a different way to learn what I want in this challenges and it's giving me what I'm looking so this leaves me with the conclusion that I'm controlling this challenge and the challenge is not controlling me.
Signal Fire Pt.2 must be the next chapter because I'm starting to connect my concept sculpts with stories I have been writing several years ago and it's a different approach to give more detail layers and meaning in what I'm doing.
Til the next Friday.