Critical Review: Proposal

Coming up with my topic for the critical review, I initially wanted to explore fantasy book illustrations because I was really interested in Arthur Rackham’s Alice in Wonderland illustrations. It wasn’t until I was revisiting a sketchbook tour of Kim Jung Gi and Iris Compiet’s Faeries of the Faultlines that I wanted to somehow incorporate that into my critical review.

I also have a book called Sketching from Imagination: Storytelling by 3dtotal publishing, and it shows a wide variety of artists and how they tackle storytelling through their work; the book shows the styles of different artists utilizing their style to tell emotions and stories. This book helped me construct the idea of style through storytelling as a part of the thinking process for the critical review.

I made up another mind map and started off with the artists I liked, picking apart what I liked the most and what was the link between them all. The topics were split between three, ‘Illustrated Books’, ‘Emotion and Storytelling’ and ‘Style’. From there I tried to link each of them with questions, ‘How to navigate illustrations alongside an existing story?’, ‘How to convey story and emotion through a single illustration?’, and ‘Does style influence the storytelling?’.

Mind map

https://app.milanote.com/1VFiSg1NLV9Paw?p=ej8uIBGTXjE (Read-only link allows for comments, reactions and drawings).