After speaking with Matt, I've realised that the mistake I've been making was trying to communicate my idea purely through the process of drawing.
To continue the project I am going to incorporate collage and digital editing into my generation of ideas. I intend to use associated images to the theme, things that relate to humans and our anatomy, digital and technological things too. Due to the concept of the project being quite dystopian, I think the idea should be prevented in a reasonably disturbing way to create that atmosphere.
Since writing the first section to this post, I've been away and started experimenting with forms of collage. Beginning in my sketchbook I started to combine quite unflattering and disturbing portraits of people with images of code, circuit boards etc to start trying to pull this topic together. It was when I started scanning some of these collages in to mess around with them on Photoshop that I realised I could use the process of scanning to add another dimension to these images. I started to manipulate my collages during the scan in order to achieve these distorted and slightly fragmented images. I am really happy with the way these are turning out and find the results to really relate to the idea of humans being affected by computer viruses.
I soon decided to start creating the collages on the actual scanner. This gave me more freedom in the range of images I could create. I'm going to experiment more with this method throughout this week and think about where this could be taken further.
