final

front cover planning

for the final image I changed the girl and lightened the background a bit

all of the fonts I've used are ones that I used inside the magazine - they link to specific articles

also decided not to cram too much text onto the page, this way the viewer pays equal attention to the illustration and titles

logo

progress 

these are some concepts for the logo, mainly the same thing from different positions and angles

drawn with non-photo blue pencil, markers and black pen

photography spread

Tried making it more sleek and formal, in contrast to the illustration spread. The color palette is intentionally limited, to the point where I edited my own photo again to give it a blue tint.

fonts: justus (header) , foglihten (sub-header) , forgotten futurist (main body)

illustration spread

 The colored color "spills" are probably the most notable parts of the spread. I wanted to use white text on a colored background. I tried simple shapes like rectangles at first, but then changed to something more true to the subject matter: watercolor-like splatters:

this(x) is the tutorial I used to make the smudge brush. I usually use it while painting, but it worked great to create the watercolor effect. Unfortunately, it only works with a pressure sensitive tablet

This is the final spread. I've picked the colors from the illustrations for each artist to make a gradient. The font I used for the names is crime times six, ebrima for the main text, tommy hilfiger AF for the header and the "January" is hand written.

feature spread and process

I had a pretty basic light set up, I don't do photography and I really haven't read much about it on my own

Essentially, I clipped a table lamp to my monitor, hoping neither would break somehow (they didn't) and bent the lamp. I could've used a second light source but since I didn't have a second lamp around I just edited out what I didn't need in photoshop

I had a couple of magazines I used as inspiration: 

I thought I only took the round pictures idea from this spread, but looking back I suppose I also snatched the basic layout for the second page

I liked this one because there was a nice use of fonts. It also just looks like a conventional make-up article, with it's photos of a variety of products and crumbled eye shadow.

final spread

A big picture on the first page, usually a close-up of an eye or product is a typical way to start a make-up article.  

fonts:

prime script (tips) , echino's park script (headers) , from where you are (title header; AUTUMN)

geo sans font (subheader) , simplicity font (colors of) , corbel (main text)