Front Page Drawing

I drew out four designs for the front cover of the magazine so that I have some sort of guidelines as to what my final cover is going to look like, as drawing out designs enables you to make mistakes through trial and error opposed to going straight into the product. This specific design, is an overall good idea as I like the way there is space for everything, and that its not too overcrowded, however, I wouldn't use this design as I would most probably want the picture to be more focused on the person as I feel there is too much excess table and extra space. I want the readers eye to be focused in on one thing and not for the eye to be able to wander around the page just to observe the picture.

My second design was a side on view of a boy doing school work, enjoying it and smiling, looking happy. I particularly like the side on view as it adds a different sort of dimension to the general overview of the magazine, especially with the added pens, pencils, books, creating that sense of a school environment. However, in contrast with the previous design, I personally feel that there is too much going on in this picture and I dislike how the title sits at the bottom of the page. Therefore, I shall not be putting the title at the bottom of the page but at the top.


I then moved onto my third design of re creating more of the
initial first design however, zooming in more of the image making the head of the boy go behind the title, creating overlapping within the front cover. Like my second design I kept the idea of having some school equipment, but I've now come to the conclusion that it  doesn't look quite right in the overall finish, as there is too much going on , and still want the picture to be more focused and concentrated on one thing.


I then put all my trial and improvements together to come up with the idea of my final design number four. I completely bought the focus in of the boy, so that the eye concentrates on that one thing however, also keeping the sense that it is a school magazine, by having part of a notepad. I didn't keep the pupil centralised in the middle of the magazine but instead having it slightly offset to the right so that the headings and writing would fit nicely down the left hand side of the page; keeping everything in form and organised so that the reader is drawn in from the immediate concentrated image and then the eye is immediately drawn down the side to read each of the headings and writing. Overall I like this design as even though it is fairly simple it conforms to the idea of a magazine, and is presented as an idea that I would be happy as to re create into a school magazine.