Tyler Spangler Creative Response [TABLET EDITION]

 

 For my second creative response, I have revisited Tyler Spangler's style and have recreated my original response piece to be a lot more eccentric and colourful as is Spangler's work. I have taken personal artistic liberties so accentuate features and use more vibrant, sharp and contrasting colours as well as being more messy and rushed as to produce a grimier result which I am very pleased with.

 To produce this, I took the original PSD file, imported it into FireAlpaca on my tablet, created a new palette with different colours from the original piece, began with lineart, went over it again to refine it, moved to flat colours, then moved to the details. After the details, I recoloured them from a dark crimson reddish purple to bright turquoise to contrast the hot pink rather than transition from it into shading. I then selected dark blue for the shadows and bright yellow for the highlights which I added frantically and sporadically where I saw it, namely creating brush strokes in abstract places.

 I finished it off by drawing a rough outline of my cutout in the background with hot pink, then another quicker and messier outline in yellow before doing one more in dark blue. I finally added the turquoise background, erased some of my edges quickly for an added rough and gritty effect, and finally exported it as it is now. I am very proud of my work here and I feel this is a great step forward to what I really want to create.

 I've learned that I don't have to be precise and to always take my time in order to produce beautiful work, rather I have to have the will and compassion. Often times a time limit allows for a more beautiful expression of work as you don't have the time to think of a filter that'll limit it to what your audience wants to see, rather you're making it with only yourself in mind.

Dela Deso Creative Response [TABLET EDITION]

 

 After a few weeks of waiting, getting an email about my order being cancelled, a few more days of waiting, re-ordering and then another few days, I finally have my tablet. I actually received it proper back on the fourth of November but was unable to come in to photography 'til now due to headaches, nausea and oversleeping.

 Finally, however, I've been able to come in and produce work. The first piece I have created is a simpler, refined version of my previous Dela Deso recreation. In this case, I used FireAlpaca and used custom brushes for both the lineart and the colouring in. I used several layers for the colours, including a template colour, then a colour mask—this being the yellow & orange in the eyes, the periwinkle & purple in the skin and the light magenta & crimson red makeup. The eye itself is comprised of four colours layered atop one another in a decreasing size to replicate the layers of an eye—iris and pupil. In this case, the iris is three shades of blue that get lighter as they reach the middle, with the pupil being hot pink to conflict with the blues.

 The lineart was initially done in medium gray to stand out from the black and white background, then once it was finished, I enabled alpha lock and coloured it in black before continuing to the colouring. As with before, I based my use of colours on a clown rendition illustration of myself.

 Overall, I am happy with how this turned out and am excited to see how my Spangler and Kent recreations will turn out.