OUIL405 Further development of ideas and critical turning point

Brief Overview:

• Media experimentation 
• Making multiple comics that look at wine tasting from different angles
• Talk with Mat that allowed me to think weather or not what I was doing fit the brief.
• Becoming more analytical of the work I'm making and making tough decisions where it fits the brief well enough and the level of the works appropriateness.

I began working on creating a book that contained a multitude of mini narratives that explored different parts of wine tasting culture in humours ways and  Looking towards what kind of media I wanted to use for the work such as water colour, digital or ink based. I became very focused on the idea of creating a multitude of different comics and breaking them up by creating 1 image pages that where critical looks at the types of wine that are available that I became way too engrossed int the idea of a comic and less focused on translating research into a picture book.

 I had an informal discussion with Matt about they route my book was turning and how it was veering  too much away from format of a picture book and more into comic book territory. Matt then said something to me which helped me to rethink the way I was approaching this book 'as an illustrator it's your job to pick and choose the relevant information for a project and sometimes you may make work you are extremely happy with but if it doesn't fit the brief you have to make the decision to take it out.' It make me realise although I was really into the way the work went it wasn't fitting the brief and taking my title of "A Trashy Guide To Classy Wines" It became more apparent that the book would work a lot better if if it wok more like a guide to wines and as Matt pointed out some of my simpler pictures such as the step guide I'd quickly sketched it the beginning (as pictured below) had a mixture of informativeness and humour that work a lot better as a book than my original plan. I began to focus on creating the composition and further researching the world of wine tasting and how I could use some of that information to inform and twist it into a satirical guide to wine tasting.