Photoshop Experimentation

What is working?

• I love the effect of bitmap and I am definitely going to use it even though I am not doing a screen print. The texture that it creates is interesting and it goes with the block colour vibe of the rest of the piece.
• I also think that the play between solid shapes and bitmapped images works well. I was going to add in some hand drawn elements but I now don't think I will. I like the all digital effect.
• I also love the parts where the plant overlays the skull. Having a few big bold overlaying shapes is definitely much more interesting than having lots of small ones (the middle ground is too much).

What am I unsure about/ how am I going to resolve it?

• I definitely want to change the colour scheme. I chose blue and red because they work really nicely together with screen print. Here I was trying to make a design which I could potentially screen print for the show after hand in but I am finding it impossible to create a design for print which also looks good digitally - it's just not the same. I am going to scrap screen printing and just make it a simple digital design/ use colours which represent me better. - maybe softer colours - pinks, blue, purple.
• I think that the abstract overlaying shapes in the middle ground are interesting and they give some breathing space between the bitmaps but I think that hey are taking up too much of the picture space. I might try using a steeper perspective. - I want more skull/ plant and less abstract shapes. 
• The big white V in the middle of the page is also not working - I definitely want to get rid of this. It would be better to have just a few touches of white in the foreground to balance the bg. 

NOW: Composition redesign/ colour changeup

Bitmap problemos

BITMAPS ARE A FRICKING NIGHTMARE TO WORK WITH!! Once you turn an image into a bitmap you can't edit it. I basically resolved this issue by screenshotting my image and copying it back onto another document but still when you try to edit it it links back to the original bitmap/ if you make it smaller then bigger the dots get bigger then don't return to their original size. I just kept playing around with settings and repeatedly trying to edit it and eventually I got my way. - basically I'm pretty unlikely to use bitmap again unless its on my whole image.