Image developments

This afternoon I've been taking some of my print work and developing it further through mainly collage. The main aim was to simplify them down a little to add more negative space and make them look better visually. Here are the results.

I think the amount of negative space here works well as it looks simple and clean and gives the details more impact in comparison. It's very much refined compared to the original. Adding the splash of bright pink has softened the entire feel.

This is collaging two elements together with a little bit of ink work. I don't think it works so well as I don't think the colours go together brilliantly. The composition is a bit random but I do like that there is a lot of negative space left.

This is my favourite out of what I did this afternoon because I feel the mixture of materials complement each other well. I also think adding the blue accent colour has really lifted it. The layering adds depth to the image.

Weekend Work

Over the weekend I decided to develop the themes that I had collected in a collage as part of the scavenger hunt by using them as a basis for a fabric design. Here are some of the pages from my sketchbook (sorry for the really terrible picture quality)~

 My original collage. My general idea when making this was to find yellow things and interesting type, as well as anything else that interested me. I was carrying on with the theme of bananas that I had already been exploring. A lot of the images came from fashion magazines which gave me the idea of creating some patterns for use in a fashion context.

 My initial designs based on the collage.

 I arranged my images into a repeating pattern and experimented with different colour-ways and effects on Photoshop.

I then used some of my ideas on some clothing designs. I quite like how these have turned out because they are very bold, fun and vibrant.