Hi guys! It's been a while since my last post like this, but to make up for it, here is a huge post xD I'll try to do at least one post per month <3
I tried compressing the gif, but I can't compress 50mb under 10mb The blog's limit is around 7mb.
About the corridor
The corridor represents the path of life. I wanted it to feel infinite and a little tight at the same time. Personally I'm not claustrophobic and smaller spaces can be more comforting to me than big environments. I've been trying to organize my time better with medium success, so I can get more done. Working on things in an order, in a straight line, has been really helpful and less stressful than deciding exact priorities. I love doing silly, fun art as much as detailed meaningful paintings. I still feel behind on all of the things I want and have promised to do, but I try to remind myself of everything I have done so far.
The graffiti on the walls is messy, chaotic, beautiful and colorful, it displays well my current state of mind with too many thoughts at the same time. I try to write my thoughts down more, to clear my head and I'm happy that that works. I'm curious how the graffiti would look like if my ideas were better organized. If I could hide some cool meanings in them, but for now I'm happy to mostly scribble for fun whatever first comes to my mind. It's surprisingly relaxing, and I'm considering ways I could make interesting, only "graffiti" drawings or doodles. However, for now it's just another idea that I've added to my ever growing to do list.
The hardest 2 parts about this painting was making details easily readable and the "looping" animation. My pc couldn't handle the animation file, I had to work with over 3 files to create the final frames for the animation. I hope to upgrade my pc sometime soon, but my point is I don't let it limit my creativity and I figure ways to work around that <3
The best way to check whether the painting is easy to "read" is by seeing it black and white. I use a black layer set to color to quickly check contrast.
I know from personal experience that even inconsistent practice has benefited me greatly. I get easily bored of anything too repetitive, so trying out various kinds of meditations is more fun. One of more interesting and useful ones is Visualization practice. You begin by observing the room you're in and then closing your eyes and trying to see the room and details. After some practice, you can try it in different settings, different speeds and different detail levels. A lot of this is spacial awareness, but it's more than that.
Even though I paint a lot and have very vivid dreams, visualizing details with closed eyes used to be incredibly hard for me. Now I do it for fun regularly, no matter when. When I see something interesting, I try to imagine a 360 view of it, from above, below and so on. I also try to pay a lot more attention to seemingly unimportant details around me.
The most challenging exercise version of this I tried is visualizing a movie I liked and watched previously that day. Start to finish, organizing scenes in right order, remembering facial expressions and various environments and effects.
Thank you for checking out!!! <3 _
Don't forget you can read more of the story here: https://superrare.co/artwork-v2/infinite-corridor-15107
