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iColorama, percolator, snapseed, image blender, repix, distressedFX, stackables
Music:
"Fast Jazz" by Tryvge Seim & Frode Halti, in 'Yeraz' (2008)
open.spotify.com/track/7D88lDuPqpyPSOQD4iSb0I?si=c619c591...
iColorama, Percolator (almost imperceptible on this last version), Repix, Stackables, Deco Sketch
Music:
"Amnesia" by ALEX OTAOLA, in 'Fractales' (2007)
For HandHeld Art’s March 2019 Contest “Architecture”
www.flickr.com/groups/handheldart/discuss/72157679003797768/
Processed on the iPad using the following apps:
IColorama
Snapseed
Repix
Stackables
icolorama, stackables, snapseed, image blender, repix
It all started with a display window shot. The dummy’s posture was so suggestive and I felt I could do something with it. Rarely I have a precisely drawn up plan on what I want, very often is the piece itself that takes shape on its own, grows with its own life. Certainly I have preferences and tend towards mystery and magic, but most of the time have no idea of what the result will be. Anyway in this case always had the feeling that wanted to transform that dummy into a shaman.
Love experimenting with textures and colors so I began doing so, adding many layers of textures in Stackables, playing with all the blending modes and saving those that felt could be useful; most of the time I start with my own formulas, saved in the app, and then try to enrich them according to the feeling I’m beginning to get about the piece. When I had a considerable number of images, began to blend each other, masking the parts that wanted to discard or keep. Always do a lot of different blends and when everything begins to take shape I focus on one or two of them, finally choosing only one, going on with the blending. Guess this piece has at least between 15 and 20 layers of textures and at least 10 blends.
Masking different versions of the same image is a lot of fun, because just by that fact you can create new shapes without needing a second source image - for instance, the presence behind the shaman or both figures' eyes. To that end I usually work in iColorama S and Image Blender, always both. For precision touches I prefer the second, choosing the soft brush which implicates a lot more work than the hard one, but you get sharper lines (I know it sounds contradictory, but thats what happens in Image Blender, the hard brush produces "dirty", "harsh", broken lines; the deeper the zoom, the harsher the lines). On the other hand, although I find much more difficult to obtain sharper lines in iColorama (in many ways this app is still a mystery to me), it is more versatile due to the fact that you can mask in every tool and brush, not only when blending images. So when it comes to blend/mask, always use both apps.
Finished the piece in Snapseed, for vignette and bright, and Repix, a cool app for retouching and adding tiny details; also love iColorama for details.
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Music:
"Nabombeli Yo" by Zap Mama, in 'Adventures in Afropea' (1993)
open.spotify.com/track/6yUuKqhcFa6APF47c7zwko?si=a3aff454...