so today I've been playing with photoshop.. and I don't really like the outcomes! I can't get the bright popping colour, the nice round edges.. or just any of it. photoshop seems to make it look boring and uninteresting. so I guess digital print might not be the right route? I thought it would be the best way to create the fluorescent colours.. but obviously not! 

I guess the colours are bright, but it just seems too far removed from the original design. I think maybe I repeated it too many times? that could possibly be something that takes away from it. I hate the oval shapes in the centre, they just look odd and.. blegh! haha. I also had to change the orange to red because I couldn't get the right shade of orange.. it just all seemed like a 'carrot' orange instead of bright and fluorescent. I didn't like it one bit. I guess I better carry on experimenting with this stuff.. maybe using my drawings to create repeat patterns from instead. and just mirror once. I think i need to do some more drawings using different methods. stencilling would probably be a good method as I'd be able to buy bright spray paints and get the lovely brights I'm after. I guess it's just taking it through to fabric that's the hard part!

these are some variants I've done using different filters, they look cool, but again, I'm not sure.