OUIL504- Printed Pictures- Idea Generation

After experimenting with different processes, I have decided that I want to produce my prints digitally. I really want to work more with digital elements but with a lot more handmade textures and elements within. This process is the most enjoyable for me and I believe goes hand in hand with the work I want to produce.

So with the idea generation, I wanted to move as far away from my author as possible without completely losing the link. If I'm perfectly honest, I am bored to tears with my author, and with the brief in general in many ways. I feel almost limited with where I can go with this brief working directly with the author so have decided to move away from that.

So I decided to do more research into my author, about his hobbies, interests and just normal things he liked, farther that the things he was typically known for. One of the things I was intrigued by was that William Burroughs was a real lover of plants and flower arranging, and in an interview said it was one of his biggest passions.

I was interested in this especially because I like the idea of taking something natural and working with it in quite a structured 'digital' way. I thought about what plants Burroughs would have come across on his travels in the different countries he went to. And made a short list of plants he would have encountered. I then went on to produce initial sketches and developed versions.

I want the images initially to be quite flat and graphical, and then used the scanned printed textures to enhance how the images look.