Creative Process

What I learned about the creative process...

The picture on the right is an early version of the final Tupac (in gray). It was an experimentation on how I would use the colors, and how I would display the gray in my overarching theme of "Black and White." Despite not using an actual gray marker, by using a desaturated brown for the skin, I wanted to replicate a lifelessness in who was being depicted.

A skill I was able to develop thanks to the scholar's class, is the notion of "killing your darlings." Which essentially means being able to scrap drafts for the better of the final product. Looking at this early draft and the final shows many differences. In developing what style I wanted to go for, I ended up making mistakes, and those mistakes helped create the final details I'd end up using on the final piece.

A style I ended up loving by the end of the project is making thin contour lines with the markers. What at first started as a mistake, ended up being a style choice I stuck with to the end.

The creative process is something you can't predict until you put something down. This capstone helped me understand that concept to its full extent.