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Yes, I made it! One drawing per day during 31 days seems to be easy, but it is harder than it looks.
Right before the month starts I made a list for every drawing, to not get into a day and don't know what to draw. My main difficulties came with the development of the drawings, finding an image in my head, a structure that makes the drawing interesting. This initial stage took me more time than I expected. 

Another difficulty I faced, was when to add or not blacks in my image. This happened in almost every drawing, sometimes I didn't add black and I had the feeling that something was missing. Sometimes I added blacks and messed up with some forms and shapes I didn't want to cover. I tried to force myself to merge some shapes and give things more volume through hatches and blacks, I definitely need to improve myself on this subject to know when to make the right choices in terms of value and volume.

The lessons I learned from this Inktober: the first one is that I need to improve my techniques in a lot of areas: I struggled with anatomy and perspective a lot, even I tried to make drawings in different perspectives I usually don't do and those experiments made me realise the long road I have to cross to be better.

I'd like to thank you everybody who supported incentivated me to keep going till the last day of october and complete the 31 drawings. Thanks to my sketchbook too, because it is the smallest sketchbook you can find to buy, and if it wasn't with the perfect size for a paper I probably would spent too much time on a drawing, since seems like I cannot leave a drawing without a background, or a character standing in a white non existent background, I need to fill it with something.

Thanks again, it was an incredible journey with tons of experimentation and learning that will definely improve myself as an artist and as a human being!   
 

It's been almost a month since War for the Planet of the Apes released on the movie-theaters, but here in Brazil it was just in August 3rd. I watched it twice since then, and now, I'm finally ready to write something about this movie, because, just like the other two Planet of the Apes movies, I can not stop thinking about it.
I was reading what I wrote in 2014 about Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (it is in Portuguese, so you may not understand it), and it is cool how my vision about the universe of the Planet of the Apes is still the same. I wanted it to be real, I wanted to be part of that story, I wanted to see intelligent apes around us and we could respect and live with eachother. If that was the reality, I doubt the things would be different from the movies, which is a shame...
Again, I absolutely LOVE the characters, especially Caesar. It is cool because he is an ape and we still can care about him, respect him and feel what he is feeling through his eyes, even he being digital, but thanks to the perfect motion capture and by Andy Serkis' acting. I not just care about them very much, but I wanted them to be safe. Several times in the movie I was worried about them: "be careful!", "Please, do not go there!", "Watch out!", Like if they were our closest friends.

Another thing I love about this movie is its themes. As a blockbuster movie, it does not go to the 'superficial and full of useless action scenes' road. The directions know exactly where it is time to the characters talk to each other, to introduce elements of the universe, to add drama, comedy, and all of this are in favor of the story and the characters' arc, tying everything together and enriching the overall story until the moment of climax.
The soundtrack, strikes again with beautiful piano sequences by Michael Giacchino and very memorable themes. Something I said about the soundtrack from the previous movie: it transports me to the world built and the track "Planet of the end credits" gives me chills and makes me drop some tears every single time I listen to it. It is so powerful!

And here comes another reason I love this movie and this trilogy: It is brave and it is relevant. It is Brave because In an era where movie studios aim their profits in a franchise for 20 years of never-ending sequels, I admire the bravery of the director Matt Reeves to end this trilogy with mastery. The story was told, the characters concluded their arcs, they did what they need to do. The movie did not need to extend the story unnecessarily, bring back characters out of nowhere nor reintroduce the same enemies all over again. And it is relevant, because, it respects the original material of the first movie of 1968 and it adds to the franchise, with very current themes we live in our world about tolerancy, xonophobia, about the idea of superior race and other things we see happening today and we realize how stupid they are and we ask ourselves why this is still happening. Something about this movie that really makes sense, is that we don't need another intelligent race "competing" with us, we destroy ourselves alone with or without it, and that's something this movie makes very clear. War for the Planet explores those themes with depth and does something never seen before, instead of trying to copy or remake the predecessors chapters and ending with no value at all.

Planet of the Apes is one of the greatest franchises of the pop-culture. It is quite a responsibility to touch something so important and still make it modern, relevant and even better than it already is. The key here, and that's what this new trilogy of The Planet of Apes is so masterful, is to add of what it made it so important in the first place, ressembling the original, but at the same time evolving it to a level of technology , storytelling, character development, bringing something fresh and new to the table and adding it to the franchise.

That is why I absolutely love Planet of the Apes above every other movie trilogy (Star Wars still wins as a franchise) to the level it brought me so intense emotions and feelings I've never had before in my life and it is quite a happiness to see good pieces of art like this, That it cares more about telling good stories than making money. That its goal is to give the humanity incredible pieces of art, that have importance, relevance and a place in our hearts and our lives!
I said when I wrote about Dawn of the Planet of the Apes that it was not my favorite movie. Now I can say for sure and with my heart full of gratitude: this new Planet of the Apes trilogy is my favorite of all time.