CC2, Week Nine, Composition continued

Orient your sketchbook page in portrait format (vertical), draw four small vertical rectangles across the top of the page.
Study these illustrations. Sketch a thumbnail version of each one in the four small rectangles.

Now draw four larger vertical rectangles in the remaining space on your page. Choose one of the four images and imagine this image is the visual for a magazine cover. Sketch four different thumbnail compositions for a magazine cover in the four new rectangles. Using greeking, add a header, a footer, three story headlines and a UPC rectangle.


This week's sketchbook assignment: Choose your favourite of your four magazine cover thumbnails. On a new page in your sketchbook, draw a full-size comp of the design you chose. Use a tracing paper overlay to 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.