This was an idea I thought up and drafted in my sketchbook. I have been thinking of the copies as yearly issues (I still havent decided how many covers I should do), but if I was to work my creating each cover through a theme of the particular month then this was an idea for January. Popular January topics were New Years Resolutions and Weight Loss (after Christmas chub). I thought about interacting with the page itself, similar to what I did with the Simpson issue. The idea that the magazine itself is being squeezed and held together by a measuring tape, representation of wanting to lose weight?
I wasn't sure whether to have the lines representing the scrunched up paper, illustrated in a similar way to the tape measure or vectored (see below)
More subtle vectored lines... doesn't work
I tried producing a scrunched up paper effect in Photoshop, after numerous attempts this was the only one that looked slightly like scrunched up paper and the folds didn't appear in the right place. It also was impossible to create the folds where you wanted them through producing random strikes with the gradient tool...
I decided to do it by hand. Scanned in image of paper screwed up by the sides
The tape seems to much like an overlay, lies to flatly on top.
I think the whole image being illustrated in the same style works best.
Initial colour variations, seeing how the image works alongside text.
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