Staircase to nowhere

 Trying to do a diagram a day which usually takes a little over an hour, depending how complex it is. This one took me longer than usual since I tried to make the lines really precise and accurate, probably about two hours. The top-facing planes are shaded in red, the ones above the horizon line are not visible realistically unless the whole thing was see-through, which is what I did here.

Starting to get back into working out again lately, I think I worked out 5 days out of the past 7 so that's a start. Not that I wasn't working out before, but it was only a couple times a week.

A fimilar view

Didn't think you would see this again now would ya?

I don't know where or when I stopped by working on perspective, but it's gained my interest again and I want to finish Erik Olson's perspective course preferably by the end of this year. I have roughly 40% left to do and I don't want to leave any knowledge on the table after moving on to other art theory. So, expect to see more of this, and alot more drawing in general, since that's where my interests lie at the moment.

Also, check out squarepusher's track, tundra, found it today and I really dig it.

Bacteria caught me lackin

So it turns out it was indeed paronychia, which just means infection of the fingernail. The swelling didn't go down any while I was asleep so I went to the clinic and they gave me an antibiotic, so now my finger won't go into self-destruct mode. About 8 hours after taking the antibiotic the swelling finally went down and the pressure with it, meaning I can actually use my middle finger for long periods of time again. Tomorrow I'll be back on the usual schedule, it was a nice break actually, was going brain-dead with the studying again.

Glad I went though, found out that this could actually spread to the bone, and that they would have to chop off the infected parts of the bone so it wouldn't spread further. That is super rare and worst case scenario, but I'm not trying to permanently damage my drawing hand let alone my body. I know any infection can get serious, but I never knew my freaking skeleton could get infected, whole new level of scary.

What do we have here

Would ya lookie here a box full of nothing, much like yesterday's post.

I haven't done much drawing, maybe 3 hours max each day for the past two days. My finger swelled up a little more before I went to bed last night and it's the same size ever since. It did so with some pain but lately the pain has gone away by probably 70%, only hurts when I press on something with a little pressure. Hoping that's because it's healing and not loosing all feeling. I use my mouse and pen with my middle finger stuck out so I am in a constant state of flipping something off, a true reflection of my current mood I feel.

So, hopefully the swelling or pain improves by tomorrow, because if it doesn't I will be making an appointment with a doctor, not trying to grow a second thumb, which is almost the size it's at now.

Ouch

 

So my middle finger on my right hand is swollen, sketched a rough depiction to show. Would be fine if it wasn't my drawing hand, but it is so now I'm suffering. I think it's an infection so that's gonna be fun to deal with, hopefully it's just an ingrown nail but fingernails don't get those nearly as often as toenails I think. Not gonna be using it for much tomorrow, it's been hurting for the past two days, but today it increased by this much compared to my regular finger. Let's hope it doesn't get serious somehow, god forbid.

WHAT ARE THOOOOSSEE

I was originally going to make the title of this post, "what are toes", but didn't think that would land. Forgive me for showing you this, I just wanted to show my efforts, even if the results were disastrous. 

Please forgive my transgressions.

Also, I am NOT into this, just to be clear.

Gestural thinking

Did a lot of 4fun drawing today, the studying grind will commence tomorrow. Speaking of grinding, my dynamic sketching warmup seems even worse than it did two days ago, now that's progress.