Influences

When looking at alternative self portraits, I came across the designer Petra Peterffy. Her illustrative and digital practice began as collage design, and her inspiration comes from anything that crosses her path, her designs tell their own stories or depicts situations from alternative perspectives.

This image depicts the blurred boundary between sleep and wakefulness. This digital art piece I find to be intriguing, the soft floral combines with the prominent shapes creates a nice contrast. The transition from sleep to awake is clear, as it suggests that when in sleep, everything is a blur. 

This is one of my favourite pieces from the artist, as the distorted imagery emerging from the figures.

We looked at some interestic repeat patterns including geometric shapes, and linear designs. The soft pastel tones contrast agaisnt the harsh, angular shapes created by the linear structure.

The visual motifs of a geometric pattern are repeated to form the full design, but with our own print we want to create something that has direction and not just a repetitve design. Symmetrical and linear patterns could work nicely as a layered print, this will make the print slughtly difficult as each intricate layer would need to be lined up correctly, this is something we want to experiment with and see how intricate we can make each layer. 

Initial Ideas 

 The first layer displays an arrangement of geometric, angular shapes dispersing from the left hand side. The idea would be to duplicate this and flip it, creating a symmetrical linear design. The centre is more intricate, then the shapes expand towards the outside dishevelling and appearing less intricate. We would imagine this to be the base layer. The next layer (as shown on the tracing paper overlaying the first layer) would be some of the same shapes already creating, however instead of being a linear line, they would be block colour allowing the shape to print over the exisitng in a separate colour. The third layer shows a side profile silhouette (the important part) as this will show us, as a person. To keep the print consistent and with the concept still present, we want the silhouette to appear rather subtle, so its not just an obvious self portrait. 

Before we started creating the design for print we both decided on a colour palette that reflects us both. With the brief asling for an alternative self portrait of ourselves, the colour palette was informed by our own interests and personal choice of colours. These pastel hues would wokr well together as the shades compliment eachother, they would work together in any context. Knowing we are creating a layered print, we selected a few colours allowing us to have a wide  range to test on paper when it comes to producing the final print.