Digital art daily blog is one year old!

Woah! Time really goes fast.. this digital art sketching blog is now one year old. So time for little recap.
When I started this blog, I thought, that If I only practice/sketch everyday atleast a little, I will improve a lot in one year!
Hard to say how much I have improved but not that much as I wanted.

Goals from a year ago:

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Long Term

• I will make one sketching/painting post everyday in this blog for a year! If im not able for some reason, I have to catch up making many in few day. (in 23th of October this blog has to have 365 posts) 

This blog currently doesnt have 365 posts but I am very satisfied the amount I have been sketching. Only I had few long breaks that I couldnt sketch but I sketched almost every topic in Cgtalk in this year.

• In one year I will be at least twice as good as I am now!

Well... lets see! I will make the cowboy painting (which was the one I started the blog) again in this weekend... so we can see if I have made improvement.

• I will improve and read theory in these painting and drawing areas:
• Character drawing/painting
• Vehicle drawing/designing
• Environment painting
• Color Theory
• Perspective 

I think I didnt "study" enought in this year. I readed one book of perspective (which helped me alot, but still need some sketching practising) and James Gurney`s Color and Light. I still need study/read lot more. 
Also only area I really went was little bit of anatomy and character sketching.. this I have to finish.

Short Term

• I will finish Jose M. Parramons "Color pencil drawing" book in the end of this year!

Done!
 

• I will make portfolio in next few months

Done! but next year I have to make a better one.
 

• I will make series painting(No more only sketches!!) and ask people to criticize it, to see my biggest mistakes. So I can crush my mistakes and really IMPROVE!

 I think my biggest fault is that I never did really anything really series painting. Only sketching. Only few I spend more than 2h.

Overall:

So I think next year I have to have more stronger vision on goals and keep them more in my mind. Also I should update Short term goals more often and try to meet them better, not only sketching! (which isnt that bad neither). I really have to start study the theory more! I was thinking to have an goal to read one book in every two month. Book of next two month will be "Alla Prima".

So study more, sketch atleast the same! I hope next year I will improve more than I did in this year!