MORE DEVELOPMENT OF DIGITAL PRINTS

I REFINED MY PREVIOUS PRINT SAMPLES BY TAKING A SEGMENT FROM THEM THEN LAYERING AND DEVELOPING THEM IN TO THE ABOVE USING PHOTOSHOP.I FEEL THE PRINT IS VERY ABSTRACT AND TRUE TO THE TITLE OF MY PROJECT ABSTRACT STRUCTURES. I LIKE HOW THE PRINT HAS ELEMENTS OF PHOTOGRAPHIC AND STILL TEXTURAL. I FEEL ASIF I WILL KEEP THIS AS AN OCCURRING THEME AND LEAD THIS IN TO ITS OWN PRINT COLLECTION.

I THEN BEGAN TO PLAY AROUND WITH MY INITAL NEUTRAL TEXTURES, INFLUENCED FROM STONE IN ARCHITECTURE. THE PRINT IS STARTING TO LOOK VERY PHOTOGRAPHIC LIKE MY OTHER COLLECTION, I WANT A CONTRAST WITHIN MY COLLECTIONS, MAYBE MORE HAND DRAWN QUALITIES. I FEEL ASIF THE NEUTRAL TONES WILL ALL FADE IN TO ONE, THEREFORE I FEEL ASIF SOME MORE VISUAL RESEARCH IS NEEDED TO DEVELOP MY SECOND COLLECTION. I NEED TO EXPAND MY TEXTURES FROM JUST ARCHITECTURE, AND USE ANY FOUND INTERESTING TEXTURES AND SURFACES TO GAIN A WIDER VARIETY BETWEEN THE TWO COLLECTIONS.

PROJECTING VISUALS

USING THE PROJECTOR TO VISUALISE MY CURRENT VISUALS HAS ALLOWED ME TO SEE HOW COMPOSITION AND PLACEMENT ON THE BODY IS KEY. A PRINT DOES NOT NEED TO BE ALL OVER TO BE EFFECTIVE WHICH IS PROVEN WITH MY BOTTOM LEFT IMAGE. IT HAS ALSO ALLOWED ME TO PLAY AROUND WITH SCALE AND REALLY TEST OUT MY DESIGN ON THE BODY. BEFORE THIS I WAS LOST AS TO HOW TO DEVELOP MY DESIGNS, BUT NOW THIS HAS ALLOWED ME TO THINK ABOUT PLACEMENT PRINTS AND HOW MY DRAWINGS/TEXTURE COULD DEVELOP INTO THEM.

TODAY I ALSO HAD MY 2-2TUTOR CRIT WITH RIANA PHILLPS AND ALEX. RIANA SAID MY LINEAR DRAWINGS REMINDED HER OF FOLDS AND PLEATING. I FEEL USING FOLDS AND PLEATING WOULD BE A GREAT WAY TO BRING A DIFFERENT KIND OF STRUCTURE IN TO MY WORK AND ADD A MORE OF AN ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENT TO IT AS THE FOLDS WILL FORM THEIR OWN STRUCTURAL SHAPES AND LINE, KEEPING THINGS MINIMAL BUT STILL DETAILED.

VISUAL RESEARCH CONTINUED

FROM MY INITIAL TEXTURES I CURATED PREVIOUSLY, I SCANNED THEM IN TO PHOTOSHOP WHERE I BEGAN TO LAYER AND EDIT THEM, ALLOWING MORE NOTICEABLY INTERESTING COLOURS AND TONES. TEXTURAL SURFACES ARE MORE APPARENT,GIVING ME MORE IMAGERY TO BE DEVELOPED FURTHER. I THINK LAYERING WILL BE A CONSTANT ELEMENT IN MY DESIGNS ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO THE TEXTURAL SIDE OF MY WORK, AS LAYERING PROVIDES UNIQUE AND INTERESTING QUALITIES AND ABSTRACT IMAGERY WHICH IS A KEY FACTOR TO MY WORK AS IT IS CALLED ABSTRACT STRUCTURES. 

I ALSO PLAYED AROUND WITH MY LINEAR ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS I PREVIOUSLY DID, THROUGH COMPOSITION AND LAYERING I AM ABLE TO CREATE QUITE DECORATIVE, INTRICATE DRAWINGS. BY DOING THIS I AM ABLE TO START VISUALISING MY DRAWINGS AS A DESIGN, OR MOTIF. I FEEL ASIF MY NEXT STEP WOULD BE TO GATHER VISUALS SO FAR AND SOMEHOW PLACE THEM ON THE BODY, START TO THINK ABOUT PARTICULAR BODY PARTS AND SHAPES FROM MY DESIGNS WOULD COMPLIMENT EACH OTHER.

INITIAL INFLUENCES

FROM MY OWN PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE RUSTIC ARCHITECTURE I TOOK WHILST IN VENICE, I BEGAN SIMPLE, MINIMAL DRAWINGS FOCUSING ON THEIR STRUCTURAL LINEAR QUALITIES.I WANT TO STRONG BOLD LINES IN MY WORK TO CREATE SIMPLE BUT EFFECTIVE DESIGNS, WHICH I WILL BE ABLE TO DEVELOP THROUGHOUT MY PRACTICE. 

I THEN BEGAN TO USE THE STONE AND BRICK TEXTURES WITHIN THE ARCHITECTURE TO DEVELOP TEXTURAL SURFACES, CREATED USING WALLPAPERS,ROLLERS, FABRIC AND FORKS ALLOWING ME TO CREATE INTERESTING RIDGES AND SURFACES. I LIKE THE MINIMAL TONES WITHIN THESE DESIGNS AS THEY CO-INSIDE WITH MY SIMPLE LINEAR DRAWINGS. HOWEVER I DO FEEL I WANT TO ADD COLOUR AND GAIN A MORE EXTENSIVE COLOUR PALETTE.