I wanted to take my flower drawing forward with some more subtle experiments with colour. I also carried on the pattern I used for some sections of flower petals through the rest of the drawing. I really like the idea of keeping the muscle sections blank and allowing the flower to really take centre stage. The pencil allowed me to get some really nice depth to the flowers and layering a tracing drawing on top of another also gave it a very 3d aspect. I feel very positive about this composition and just need to consider if I would incorporate colours and which ones.

The only thing to consider about this sample is how it contradicts my earlier aim to create something vivid and vibrant in order to invite the viewer in. That being said there's something quite beautiful about the subtlty and perhaps vibrancy would give it too much of an abstract effect.

The next stage is to look into getting my drawing on to a screen and do some silkscreen printing as this could be a good way to experiment with colour but also create numerous replicas in a shorter space of time. Thd sooner i decide on the technical process I will use, the sooner I can work towards creating my finals peices of artwork.

Continuing with my experimentation with identities reflected in the body. This time I wanted to play with different mediums and see how skin like tones would work against a contrasting flower. I found this quite interesting to play with using a flowery wallpaper, however the contrasting designs seem to make the image quite flat and loses its depth slightly. It was suggested I could continue the design on the wallpaper into the muscles and create something quite abstract. This could be interesting however I'm unsure this would take away the message within my design. The flower is a symbol of hidden identity within people and I want to portray that people should find that within one another.

I want to next experiment with more aesthetically pleasing colours to suggest it is our individuality and who we are not what we look like is where the real beauty lies. I like the idea of perhaps leaving the detail of the muscles simply as an unfilled line and let the colour blossom within the entwined flowers. Although our bodies are beautiful I want to reflect that beauty should be defined by what comes from within. I've thought about just using the feet as studies as it symbolises the concept of walking in someone else's shoes.

I wanted to this time experiment with a composition with the muscles of the foot, incorporating the flowers. I hope to by the end have a series of compositions but in order to demonstrate that we all have different identity's each must have a different combination of flowers which have of course their own hidden meanings. I've started to consider colour combinations, this is the beginning of an idea to have the muscles in monochrome but perhaps the flowers could be in vibrant colours. This wil highlight our identity (the flowers) is what is important and what we should be judged by. Therefore I am making a link with the body (as promoting positive body image is a body issue after all) but without making it the sole focus. I feel really positive about the composition but I'm unsure yet of my chosen medium therefore I will experiment with that next. 

My concern is about overcomplicating my design, although the point is to strategically place the flowers in a way that's subtle, I still want their presence to be apparent. Our identity lies within and we should take the time to get to know someone and judge them by that instead of making remarks on someone we don't know purely by their outside looks. I could therefore consider leaving the muscle structure as a simple line drawing and shadow the flowers, which could perhaps be nice in the screen print process. This is something I could consider next. I've also collected wallpaper samples with different flower designs that I could print and draw into, which I'm quite excited about!