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This week we were given 4 possible projects to choose from. I chose option number 1- Editorial Illustration as that appealed to me the most. From the possible list of writers to choose from, I chose Will Self. I am familiar with his work, and am familiar with him from the program, "Shooting Stars" he kinda intimidated me but I kinda had a short-lived weird crush on him... my taste in men is immaculate (sometimes) . He also has his birthday the same day as me!
BRIEF:
"You are asked to produce a series of 3 editorial submissions, one for each week of this project's timetable allocation." Looking at Examples:
I found some examples of editorial illustration on Google images.
ARTICLE: FIRST WEEK
Like with all my projects, I like to create a Pinterest board with images relating to the brief. I find that it helps me with inspiration and therefore helps me generate ideas. Here's what I've been looking at:
Thumbnails:
After reading the article, I had a few ideas come to me. Since the article is about the writer himself I decided to include him in the image.
I quite liked the idea of having Will Self in bed with a cigarette, I thought it'd make for quite a humorous piece. I explored the idea of having a box of cigarettes in the bed instead of a singular cigarette. I also liked the idea of having a repetitive pattern of cigarettes in the background.
Developing ideas further:
I decided to get rid of the extra things in the image as I thought it was beginning to get a little too busy and wasn't what I was aiming for in this piece.
After some feedback, I decided to draw an open cigarette box in order to make it clear as to what it is; without it being open, it could be anything so I need to make the content more recognisable and easy to understand. 
Final Idea:
For the final idea I decided to go as minimal as possible, so I got rid of the background drawing and opted for a solid color background instead. I'm not sure whether I need the cigarettes in the background or not, but I think both options work?
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Thumbnails & Quick Ideas:
I made another Pinterest board with 'coffee' related pictures/drawings etc. for inspiration.
I liked the graph idea for my final piece, so I decided to explore different ways I could incorporate the graph into my work. In addition to this, the coffee beans in the background was something I thought worked well, so I'd like to incorporate that into the final piece as well.
Development
I created two different backgrounds, one for the coffee graph and one for the Coronavirus graph. The idea is to show the economy declining and then increasing once coffee is introduced.
I thought that adding coffee splashes onto the first image would be a good way to incorporate the second image.
FINAL GIF Version
The idea with this was to have the two gifs blend into one another in order to create one gif. The frame rate is a little off, so it needs a little tweaking.
Changing my piece.
After some feedback with Tony, we decided that the final piece wasn’t really suitable. So I’ve decided to rethink the design. The first design I focused too much in using symbols to represent things instead of thinking of what image I could use to represent the article.
New Idea
One of my ideas was to go with a queue of people waiting to buy coffee. The queue of people was something Tony mentioned I could try out for this article.
ARTICLE: THIRD WEEK
RESEARCH
My initial idea when I first read this article was to include multiple drawings of Bowie in his different eras. The picture below is a good example of this. Somehow I want the faces to merge into different ones, perhaps I could explore this option as a GIF?
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Development
I thought I'd create vector like images of Bowie in his different eras... Space Oddity, Ziggy Stardust etc to show the vast personalities and individuality of Bowie which is mentioned within the article.
Final Idea
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