Intentions - Digital Designs

I knew I wanted to work digitally but I was struggling to understand how this would fit in with my screen printing work because my designs seemed to be taking a graphic route. I was using my images of flowers and the occasional insect that I took through the summer, manipulating them to create patterns and different motifs. My first attempts weren’t very good, the were underdeveloped and didn’t have many positive attributes.

I found myself a little stuck for my digital ideas, which is when I decided to do more research. I thought that if I found a target market then I could tailor my designs to work in that area. This is when I found Timorous Beasties, a design due whose work is extremely similar to mine. The subject of Insects in their ‘Darwin’ Collection helped to inspire me more and so I chose this as my target outlet. I noticed in many of their designs that the work took the form of columns almost. So this is what I decided to take from this, in order to create a similar style to their work.

These are the digital designs I created in response to Timorous Beastie’s work using my images and motifs. I left space in the designs so that not only did it reflect their work, but also so that I could work back into them into the print room and develop my designs further.