The document summarizes the process of creating a fanzine focused on cocktails. It describes researching different types of fanzines, developing ideas for topics, planning the layout and content, and producing the fanzine. The key steps included: 1) Researching different fanzine styles for inspiration. 2) Choosing to focus on cocktails based on personal interest and ability to create unique designs. 3) Developing mood boards and draft layouts to plan illustrations and information included. 4) Researching popular cocktails and writing descriptions of ingredients. 5) Producing illustrations by sketching cocktails and coloring them digitally, creating the layout in Photoshop.

1. Evaluation
Emily Grace Porter

2. Research
With my research I wanted to collect three very different types of
fanzines. I found a punk rock one based of music and a product based,
health and lifestyle fanzine and finally an aesthetically pleasing
illustrated indoor plant fanzine.
Looking back and reflecting from a finished stand point I would of got
3 different put all 3 selling a product so that I had more design ideas
e.g. page layouts, colour schemes etc.
I did notice how each fanzine had a colour scheme, it was never just
random colour thrown together. I also understood the culture more
realising a fanzine can be on absolutely anything that you're a fan off
and on the simplest things.
I then thought out 3 ideas of fanzines I believed I could produce. The
ideas I came up with where: friends, cocktails and a certain crime. I
wanted to chose three things I knew a lot about and again three
completely different topics. I ended up choosing cocktails as I felt I
could produce a nice unique design to the topic.

3. Ideas Development
In my deveopment ideas I wanted to represent the my design
asthetic as based from illustrations. I wanted to indicate that my
fanzine will be themed in the way of sketches and illustrations
to display my products.
I began by making two mood boards to get ideas and
inpsiartions for different elements of my fanzine. For example
font styles and colour schemes. I Also wanted to gather some
images of illustrated fruit/cocktails/bottles to see the different
way they have previously been represented from an illustrated
point of view.
I the began planning some draft page layouts with some images
I found online. I knew my basic idea would always stay the
same; one page for illustartion and one page for information.
Looking back from a finished prospective there are many
similarities from my beginning drafts to my end product.

4. Planning
During my planning I looked at which cocktails where popular in the bar industry today in aspects of being
classic. Once I had chosen I then did some research behind each cocktail and also wrote out the ingredients
and garnishes for each. I then roughly sketched out layouts of each page and how I wanted it to be set out and
planned the structure of my fanzine. I organised in which order the cocktails would be layed out. Also during
planning I wrote out the questions I would ask during my interview. I didn’t need much planning other than
this as my zine only consistered of the illustations and ingrdients along with an interview.

5. Production
My production started with drawing and completing
sketches of the cocktails in my fanzine. I sketched the
cocktails on plain paper with a pencil, once I had drawn all
my cocktails I scanned them onto the computer. My
sketches came out really well and had the effect I wanted
but with the scanning, due to using pencil the lines weren't
as clear or defined as I wish so therefore made the editing
side a lot longer than I expected. Once I uploaded my
images on to photoshop I began colouring them in on
photoshop with the brush tool. I'm very happy with how the
colouring came out but the colouring through my time
mangamet off as it took nearly 2 whole days to colour in the
most detailed. I made the ingrduents page fuly on
photoshop, making my own stickers from clipart images of
fruit. And mimicing spirit bottels for illustraion, everythig
was made on photoshop. I believe the layout is professional
and I'm very happy with how I worked with colour schemes
for each cocktail.