Liesl Pfeffer

Lisel Pfeffer is a visual artist who uses collaging and drawings to express himself in a playful way, he also loves photography and has an ongoing project of photographing his daily life He believes photographs are an accurate show of documents of our lives. 
He has inspired me to take a different direction with my drawings in the way that he is more playful and expresses himself, I then decided to be more playful and just start enjoying my drawings and being more free. 

Inspired by Pfeffer I then began to draw my own expressive drawings;

To be more playful I decided to draw with different types of media I found around my house such as; cotton buds, string, different shaped utensils and it really helped me to enjoy my drawings more and made the drawings expressive. I was able to explore shapes and lines that I never had before.
Here is one drawing I did using an old comb, pulling the paint on the page on a circular motion, it shows surface and texture with also adding shape which I have been trying to achieve so I am really pleased with how these playful drawings have turned out. 

Colour

Harlequins new range has really helped me with choosing my colour pallet; Anthology 03 has various designs of texture, surface and shapes. I'm not really sure on their colour pallet choices as they seem a bit dark and frosty so this has now inspired me to make my designs bold and powerful so they stand out from the crowd. I can see the clear lines of shapes and each different bit of surface, the prints are very clear and I also cant see where the repeat design starts, this is something I know I need to work on when designing my own and to have this new Harlequin range to look back at will really help me along the design process. 

CORBRA; Harlequin new range

 My final colour pallet has come from some researched inspiration off pintrest; inspiration that I will also be using throughout the project whilst drawing and designing and looking at the Harlequin new range has help a lot when choosing which colours I should use.

I have chosen these colours because I want to try and create different surface and textures in my designs with colour and I think these shades of colour can so this, to do this I have chosen lighter and darker shades of the same colour to see if I can maybe add some more depth to my designs, give a sense of a 3D quality on a flat wallpaper design. 

Abstract

Peter Krauskopf has inspired me to to take another different route with my drawings and prints, I want to use my pallet knife to do some more abstract prints and I thought Krauskopf use of colour was a really good way to make simple lined drawings into colourful shadowed prints. 

Peter Krauskopf

Adding more abstract lines, texture and surface into my drawings will bring another element of design for my collection. 

I am now starting to think I could build on 1 or 2 collections with all of the different ranges of drawings I have and have been jotting down some ideas; One collection being very surface and texture inspired, a second collection being abstract with my block shapes and textures and maybe a third. 
Doing this shows I can design different ranges of wallpapers and designs with different shapes textures and patterns.
Trying to aim for three mini collections shows I am willing to broaden my skills and show what I can achieve as a designer, I think this will help me gain a new understanding for what it could be like in the design world, having not one collection to design but three.  

Mark Making

For this project my aim is to add shape into my surface and textured drawings, being inspired by my photographs and previous mark making in the Practise Unit I decided to make marks using a brush strokes with a ruler so I could still get the ruff edge and messiness with adding the straight abstract edge with the ruler. 
The straight line at the edge of the paper adds another element to the drawing rather than it being just a simple brush stroke on a page.

I really think this technique has worked, I can see all the small grains of the brush stroke and then with the straight line I like how it has made it into more of a shape than just a simple brush stroke. I did this mark by moving the brush to the left, I also want to try moving the brush up and down. I am going to carry on with this technique making more bigger marks and also smaller marks to see the difference and compare them.

The second image is me trying to trap the brush stroke and I think this is really effective, again it isn't like any other simple brush mark. By creating a simple square shape with tape I have created a completely different mark, with this I am also adding shape into my mark making drawings.