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My phrase given was "He who smelleth best, smelleth of nothing"
Unfortunately it seemes that there is very little in the way of use of this proverb and it seems to be more direct advice that you should not smell bad, nor be overpoweringly scented.

First I had discovered the History of the proverb:

[1]

And one of it's only uses in language I can currently find in the script of "The ancient British Drama" 

[2]

 While some of my thumbnails reflected this use of the idea of smell and how it effects people, and communicating that idea of smell i wanted to take this idea into a more theoretical and emotional nothingness and how smell can be interpreted as an emotional thing.

Smell, having lack of smell and changing your smell has often been an incommunicable thing throughout visual media, it is always been a secondary experience that we know through visual language or dialogue. For example I remember the twist in a 2005 show called "Invasion" [3] where there was a twist in that a young son is being held by his mother and he says "Mommy, you smell different" I don't remember anything else from that show however I remember a single line of dialogue that supposedly changed up it's dynamic as it is revealed that this mother is now in fact an alien. 

Reflecting upon this i thought more of the emotional weight of changing your own smell and how that effects people around you. More importantly how we link life and our own memories to the sense of smell.

So this lack of smell might imply a sense of emptiness, and this should be something that is communicated visually in a physical sense and emotional sense.
This should build upon a passive visual language to easily communicate this sense of nothingness and then build upon that visual language to possibly create the idea of a small narrative 

Biblography

[1] Apperson G.L.and Manser, M.H, 2006.Dictionary of Proverbs. U.K :Wordsworth Editions Ltd

[2] Miller. William. 1810, The Ancient British Drama. UK. (unknown)

[3] Invasion. 2005, ABC, (Unknown)

Olio Development

These are the 22 thumbnails in my first rough work with  my olio cover, i largely struggled with a direct answer to my own saying "He who Smells best smell of nothing" and went with many more conceptual ideas about communicating something that smells of nothing.

I was advised to go forward and make larger thumbnails for five of my ideas, though i dropped one of the ideas due to lack of visual interest it had.

One of my thumbnails that i had developed greatly was one I found encompassed my practice better than my other thumbnails and my development of this idea was largely to experiment with the overall pink tone dominating the image that other tones can come in and give it more depth and guide the eye more, without there being too many and confusing the eye. 

I had chosen to go forward with a magenta and Cyan colour scheme with the bottom right image for my submission

My next rough came about through tutorials and the idea of consumerism and the idea of having more makes a person become less original.

This kind of narritive largely draws from a photographic perspective and a behind the image narrative, however i feel that much of the image looses it's impact with the horizontal format, and it does not properly communicate my intention of creating a sense of picture overwhelming of the figure.

Top left picture is an antithesis of the prior thumbnail and uses the preconception of retail work, particularly large supermarket work to give a sense of nothingness, enforced conformity and thus blending into the scenery.

These are my final two roughs that i am submitting.

This is my self portrait

Cover 

This is my first rough for the cover, It started off with the central object being the 12th card in the tarots major arcana the hanged man.
I associated the hanged man with the idea of proverbs as it is a card representative of self introspection, sacrifice and ultimately change.
We often see proverbs as vague, however being told them brings time to be introspective of ones own actions.

This first draft was a bit too painterly and did not give much lease for the graphical elements that needed to be within the image.

With this more graphical revision i chose to focus on the idea of tarot cards, and used Wheel of fortune and it's representation of the flux of human life and the world, a card implying a completion of a journey, to symbolize the end of the course.

This is the final rough of the cover I will be submitting.

Colours

how colour is used in print medium is split into two kinds

CMYK
cyan, magenta, yellow, key
 
RGB
red, green, blue

 CMYK when over layed with each other it will turn into darker colours and thus it is how natural printing ink, paint, or any other tactile art media,
RGB is used in web design primarily as it is how the majority of screen technology works today, as colours are over layed with each other it creates lighter tones.

Keeping this in mind, even if you where to submit a peice of traditionally drawn media you still have to consider aspects of your work that may come out differently in the printing process as scanning in a work may unintentionally alter colours.


With this in mind we where tasked to draw an editorial image

 

My First images had some visually striking ideas however some of them may have been misdirected or possibly suggest different things than what the article has intended.

My first draft is meant to be empathetic, the use of nets in bird poaching separating birds form their natural habitat, often putting them just out of reach. while this might be the most empathic thing it may not be the right thing to focus on, as we are trying to give a message of hope as this poaching is trying to be combated. 

My second one i tried to communicate the birds being set free with criminals being arrested, however this may be more focused on symbols of wanting for peace with the use of bird in flight imagery.

My third one was the idea I have gone with, while the original idea is close to describing why the birds are being poached, this imagry was originally taken for the bird being dead on the plate instead of hurt or laying on the plate. however with it's striking use of imagry it was brought forward with it's idea just needing slight adjustments to tone down the violence of the image

It was recommended to me that i let the bird fly in escape, while possibly having a fork hold it down, i experimented with some of the ways i could do this.

 I experimented with the ideas of composition and human presence within the picture, the use of cutlery within the work, I decided to go with the bottom thumbnail, with some adjustments as it is both graceful and has the most memorable image of the bird with a strong silhouette.
I brought in aspects of my first thumbnail with the fork and fist used, and decided to go with a stronger stance to it, changing it into a fist than the regular holding of a fork.

I took large amounts of inspiration from other editorial illustrators and wanted to use a simplistic and bold colour scheme to match this bold and forward message about the birds and their current condition, having a looming threat of a darkly shadowed hand and fork contrasting with a bright songbird finally being able to fly, but not without being hurt. It is both a message of hope towards the veiwer and a warning that this poaching is still going on with the torn feathers in the tines of the fork.

I had made sure that all of the colours where checked against a pantone chart once i had created my initial colour pallet, while i was able to get great colour matches on most of the colours i used, i am slightly disappointed with the dark blue i went with as i could not get the original subtlety of the colour as i did before with the pantone chart.