Reference
A lot of visual humour when using a character, especially a character that becomes drunk through out the book is the use of hyperbolic body language and expression. Looking at how disney animators used themselves as reference for this I and some of my friends built up a catalog of expressions and different poses.
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Composition
I've had a lot of issue with composition in the past with my work and building up a base of body language and facial references helps but the other part of becoming better at composition was looking at how to position a person with in a set dimension as well as looking at the way some artist handle character composition within a set dimension.
Kate Beaton's comic strips rely as much on the humours script as it does on the body language and compositions of the pieces to evoke humour and it's something that I want the images in my book to also mimic this formula of text and image working in tandem.
This is why I spent time drawing up the steps for the wine and changing them as I went also as I realise being precious over a plan doesn't allow for the development and improvement of the final work.
A big thing for me on this project has been making scamps to size, they've been extremely useful in working out composition and have taught me that it doesn't matter if you make 3 or 15 different scamps for one page you only stop making them when you are happy with the way the page looks.
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