Everyday's - Month 11

General / 03 August 2019

301-330

Damn that was rough!
I remember stating last time around that this month would be very complimentary to my creative pursuits time-wise... I was soo wrong about that. I’m glad I made it through. WTF! It was like a Rick and Morty episode that gets crazier and crazier.
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The Kit-bashing intensified these last 30days, mostly due to necessity, because of the time such a workflow saves and also because I got hold of some very very nice kits.
The first one I stumbled upon was from Andrew Averkin - a badass in his own right but a great enough guy to give a lot of stuff for free and one of his offerings was a Hard-Surface kit which has some delicious elements.

Then Maxx Burman and Co. dropped Kitbash3D and as soon as I saw him demo it on his L2 Twitch stream AND that they had a Tokyo Kit I was sold. I must admit I do struggle with rendering in 3D and I ‘waste’ a ton of time by button bashing but once I got/get a better grasp, the speed it offers you and the ideas that come as a result means this is a really efficient way to cook up ideas - ready to be refined later on. Ultimately if I was good a rendering then I could be pretty prolific when using 3D kits to cook up ideas. So I shall work on that indeed.

Its clear that my ‘standard’ level has improved and there is a very loose consistency in the quality of work that I’m producing now. Though it's easy to tell which days were a challenge as the quality drops off. I guess that's the beauty of everydays as you can use them as a way to study yourself and get a good picture of how you operate and what your limits are. I guess its similar to an athlete re-watching their performances. However, as with every artist I want to hit a high level with every piece I create - will it ever happen - no but I will still try and aim for it.

Inktober is here and it's cool to see how when I started everydays last year that all I could do daily was sketches and I exhausted all the time I had on them. Now I am able to produce them in addition to my daily piece and I like that I am quicker and efficient with them and less ‘give-a-fucky’ with them which is allowing me to focus on the important such as form - perspective or just outright experimentation.

This following month (plus 5days) will likely be my last of this everyday journey - so hopefully it's a good one. Till then. 🖖🏼