Magazine Cover Sketch

This is my attempt at making a magazine cover sketch which is vital to help get ideas out and test what you have in mind.

For the masthead, I chose a red font because I wanted it to catch the reader's attention and be a clear focal point on the cover page. I applied this same technique for the main coverline as the font is orange and thick while the other coverlines are black and thin. I chose to spread these around to the main image so the cover is balanced. For the main image, I chose a picture I took of a duck that almost looked as if it was looking up in desperation and based some of my color palette on its colors. I included a bar code on the bottom right and a dateline on the bottom left.