Print Processes - stage two - final images

Using Newman as my inspiration i created these little characters, they are no where near as complex as Newman's characters but the way that they have been placed on the page was influenced by Newman's superhero piece. I chose for my characters to not overlap because i wanted to keep it simple, sorta!
I tried to give every character at least one detailed element so that i could eventually separate the image into two images so that i could print the different sections using different colours. i tried to balance out the characters between nature and man made and order them so they would blend well as an image. Once figuring out my pattern i made a new document in photoshop and made it repeat 4 times within an A3 document. I then cut out various characters and moved  them around so that it was not soo clear where the image repeats. 

This is the final design, i removed the detail from the images and separated them onto a different document, i tried mixing them up as much as i could and i really like the chaos of the image. when i print this image i thought about what colours i could create if the two designs overlapped. i deliberately kept some of the detail on the first image because then when i print the detailed side on top; the ink should overlap and give me a third colour. i imagine lining this image up is going to be a pain 

This is the detail part of the image, picking out the detail was a good idea because now i can really highlight the characters and it will help to bring them off of the page. When Newman printed those faces i noticed that he used a bronze like colour, when we were briefed on the second stage we got an introduction to flock and foil which i think i could use to help me get some really nice textures on my final print. Using foil on the detailed print i can really highlight my characters, flock would be interesting but i don't think i would like my robots to be furry.....
I think before i buy any foil i need to print this image in ink so that i can see how easy it is to line up.




These are some of the digital plan i had for my prints. I used one of Newman's characters (featured in the post before this one) for my colour palette, i love the contrast in colours and it works really well.





I used the colour palette from Newman's planet of the apes poster design for this one. don't really think it works for this image as i seem to loose some of the detail on the more intricate parts.



This one was just me messing around with my colour layers, using different shades of the same colour seems to work quite well with this image as it gives the characters depth.





Another mess around with colours, i think the bright background works well because the accidental space that was created when i made this image is now coloured in which i think helps to complete the characters and the image as a whole.