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I'm a day late with my quarterly journal and I don't even have much to say.
I haven't done much around here lately, which is odd considering I had decided this was going to be the year when I was going to make a lot of things happen. But then again that might be the very cause: I often corner myself into doing something, then it stops being fun, my motivation and inspiration vanish and the machinery comes to a full stop.
My daily sculpting thing is probably not going to happen this year. I wanted to do it but I really have no time, or motivation, and I really hated my most recent attempts at sculpting anything. It feels, again, like I lost whatever little skill I had. Why must everything you stop practicing just atrophy so easily? So maybe it'll come back someday, maybe it won't. At some point I will try to finish some sculpts I already started, at least that much I promised myself, and it should be doable (?
I'll stick around, since I always do, but probably my only activity will be another journal like this in December and little else.
Æmilius
I haven't done much around here lately, which is odd considering I had decided this was going to be the year when I was going to make a lot of things happen. But then again that might be the very cause: I often corner myself into doing something, then it stops being fun, my motivation and inspiration vanish and the machinery comes to a full stop.
My daily sculpting thing is probably not going to happen this year. I wanted to do it but I really have no time, or motivation, and I really hated my most recent attempts at sculpting anything. It feels, again, like I lost whatever little skill I had. Why must everything you stop practicing just atrophy so easily? So maybe it'll come back someday, maybe it won't. At some point I will try to finish some sculpts I already started, at least that much I promised myself, and it should be doable (?
I'll stick around, since I always do, but probably my only activity will be another journal like this in December and little else.
Æmilius
Ergol (OC) WIP
After months of not doing any artwork, I finally started sketching my OC "Ergol" 🍄 I began 3D-sculpting him live on Twitch 🤗 https://www.twitch.tv/aemiliuslives I didn't think I would make much progress and was just blocking some shapes, but in the end, it came up better than I anticipated and might actually be usable. "Ergol" was going to be my 2023 passion project, but for a variety of reasons (including my laptop breaking in December), I didn't manage to make much with it. But here we are, and there's always 2024, lol. VOD of the actual stream (I only began streaming last week, lol).
My 2022 into 2023
So, 2022 marked my 10th year on dA. For a variety of reasons, it's been one of my most inactive years here. But it's still been pretty productive. In April I did my 3D-sculpting Daily Challenge for the 7th time. I finally managed to put together the video showcasing all the renders, WIPs, turntable animations, and alternative renders of the 30 sculptures. Again with some terrible unscripted commentary (CC available). Take a shot every time I say I love something or something was fun to make, and you might end up in an alcoholic coma, lol. Also featured towards the end of the video, a look at some of the animation work I did this year, and what to expect from me for 2023. Animation (sort of basic and rudimentary, of course) is going to be my main goal next year. I'll probably make my Daily Challenge again in April, even though I always tell myself I'll never do it again, since it's so exhausting and time-consuming. My 7th annual 3D-Sculpting Daily Challenge. Some really weird and
Daily Challenge 2021 wrap up video
I finally put together this year’s 3D-Sculpting Daily Challenge wrap up video. Featuring all the renders, WIPs, turntable animations, and alternative renders of the 30 sculptures I did back in April. For the first time, I recorded unscripted commentary for this (CC available), which is something I always wanted to do (but I always chickened out of it). It didn’t come out great, but I’m ready to move on from this and call it done after so many months. LOL. Challenge gallery https://www.deviantart.com/aemiliuslives/gallery/77911672/2021-daily-challenge https://www.artstation.com/aemiliuslives https://www.instagram.com/aemiliuslives https://www.tiktok.com/@aemiliuslives
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Hello. I hope everyone is doing fine in these unusual and scary times we're living.
I've been away from dA for nearly a year. Not only that: I've been almost completely disconnected from the community and from my "creative side" as well. I wanted to do many things. Like opening my own group, collab, support my friends, perhaps finally do commissions and stuff I always talked about. Instead, I drew back into a cocoon of isolation and darkness.
This time of social-distancing (or full-on lockdown in my case), feels like a good time to go back to making things. Occupying my mind in this time of uncertainty, try to build up some hope, and scratc
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