CC2: Week 8 Composition, Part 4

Orient your page in portrait format (vertical) draw your one inch image area border. Divide the image area into four equal quadrants. Leave a half inch gutter between each quadrant.

Study these four illustrations. Using pencil shading or your grey markers or a combination of both, redraw all four images as thumbnail sketches.

On a new page, divide the page into four quadrants, as above. Choose one of the four illustrations and create four new compositions using the same elements, but imagine the image is the visual for a magazine cover. As you design your four new thumbnail compositions, add the magazine title. Using greeking, add a header, a footer, three story headlines and a UPC rectangle to each of the four thumbnail designs.

This week's sketchbook assignment: choose one of your four new possible magazine cover designs and sketch a full page comp version. Using the tracing paper overlay provided in class, explain in writing and with diagrams why your improved composition works. Describe how you have applied the principles of composition studied over the last four weeks.