As the title suggests, this is a series that illustrates routines, a regular sequence of activities that we follow regularly. This series is a personal project in which the main purpose was to explore a new type of composition and add more colors to my projects.

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The first illustration in the series was inspired by a routine that, to me, is very common among the people I interact with. It's not exactly my routine, but it's similar. I opted for a livelier color palette, and I quite liked it.

The second illustration isn't my favorite visually, but it's the most important to me because it was made in homage to a movie I had watched the day before executing it. I still had no idea which routine I would illustrate for the next image. Until I decided to watch a movie from 2023 that was being shown in theaters again due to its Oscar nomination. "Perfect Days," a movie about routine. It's not the type of movie I usually watch, but it touched me in a way I haven't been able to explain yet.

Hirayama is the main character in "Perfect Days," and he is the one I depict in this modest routine. A middle-aged man who wakes up very early to work, to the sound of leaves being swept on the sidewalk. He shaves, buys a coffee from a vending machine in front of his apartment, plays cassette tapes in his car, and goes to work. Hirayama works cleaning bathrooms in Tokyo (which go beyond simple public bathrooms), and during his breaks, he eats while observing the trees in a park. At the end of the day, he still goes to simple bars by bike and, as a great lover of books, he ends the day reading before going to bed.

Hirayama lives alone, and even with a simple life, he still has his hobbies, does his work exceptionally well, and ultimately seems to live well like this.

After illustrating two work routines, I decided to depict the routine of a younger girl, which was greatly inspired by my childhood. In addition to studying, I also represented swimming, a sport I practiced a lot when I was little, and I remember that at the end of the day, I watched Pokémon on TV. The hula hoop also represents something that few children do nowadays.

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