More Collage

Photocopying more of my prints for textures as well as some things from books. Trying to suss out what I can put alongside my line drawings. It's starting to bug me.

Time is going by and it's becoming more apparent that I really need to have my approach/aesthetic/whatever in place before too long. I want to start putting together pages for my publication but I'm dissatisfied with the images I've been making.

I'm not sure if they look good, or if they convey the things I have in mind.

 I was thinking about how I could introduce shape by cutting forms out of photocopies of my monotype prints. Either by making shapes and then drawing over them, cutting shapes and objects out and having them as separate things from bits of drawing, or layering them over line (the tracing paper on the right). However this is too similar to what I did in the editorial brief.

I find working with shape quite restrictive, and feel it lacks any real expression or movement compared to line. Shape is anonymous to me, it looks like it could have been made by anyone. Whereas with lines, you can see who made it most of the time.

Out of all of them, I like this one the most. Because it's abstract, but the solid forms ground the floaty whispy lines of the tiny figures. Maybe creating these small compositions/scenes is how I should go with it? However I wouldn't want the cut-outs to overpower the monotypes.

I still don't really know.