The Brief

The brief presented to us revolved around the theme of “Combinations and Alliances” I felt this was quite a vague concept to work around is it allowed me to cover a large range of ideas, I had several ideas about what I could do ranging from remaking classic book covers in a new modern way or illustrating people’s conversations from public transport. Eventually I finalised on making a magazine cover based around a combination of art forms, these being comic books and comedy, the article I cover in the magazine will be based on this mix, having an interview with a comedian on having a comedy night in a comic book shop, and the great outcome that comes from the combination of these two things. I began looking plainly at magazines, their conventions and how they are made, I then looked at alternative magazines and how they stray away from these conventions and how to do that successfully. I did this through a mix of experiments and using handmade techniques mixed with digital ones, this combination was common within the alternative magazines so this is the route that I decided to go down for my final piece, this took a lot of development by looking at different artists copying their approach to magazines.

My Original Ideas

These are my first ideas based around combinations and alliances.

Doodles

Inspiring Magazine Conventions

Here I looked at conventions of magazines and annotated them to look at the features they use so I could bear them in mind for creating my magazine.

Then I looked at alternative magazines and analysed the way that these differed, this allowed me to understand the limitlessness of creating an alternative magazine, and the whole range of things that I could include in my magazine.

Planning my Magazine.

This is the plan for my magazine, here I've brainstormed all my ideas for the plan, what kind of magazine it will be, what it will include, the name ans the style.

Jillian Tamaki

Jillian Tamaki is the artist that I've become recently inspired by for my magazine cover, she covers a massive range of forms generally in her work that seems to combine a handmade style and also a lot of use of photoshop which creates a unique style combined with traditional effects.

Experimenting with Acrylic Ink

Here I decided to select different layers of my original picture and paint them separately on different pieces of paper using acrylic ink, I tried to use quite a messy style, hoping for some accidental mistakes, then scanning them into Photoshop and layering them on top of each other, then experimenting with hues and saturation to see the effect that I got.