This week I have started to put together my magazine, and when focusing on the ‘Stories Behind Things’ Swap Shop feature, I wanted to create a illustration to accompany the interview. Due to bad lighting during the event I wasn’t fully satisfied with the photographs that I took there, however was supplied this professional photo of the founders. Having focused on geometric collage in project 1 I decided to recreate this technique while layering with a line illustration. I am happy with this development as the final illustration is more suited to my magazine aesthetic than the original photograph.

I decided to erase the sofa out of the illustration as it is not the object of focus and I would like to direct the attention to the materials and collage used to form the women. In substitute I experimented and with other ways in which I can lay out my illustration and have decided to create a wide band of block colour to act as placing for them to sit. I also chose to experiment with using contrasting colours of blue and pink, mirroring those in their clothes. However have decided to use the colour yellow and white within the spread so that there is a connection to the following page where the man in my photograph collage is wearing the same shade jumper. I believe this is a better colour choice as it is important that the feature flows coherently.

Having decided to not include any text on the first spread of the feature, I then began to experiment with how I will layout the interview. After researching on Pinterest, I came across this pull quote, used on a student hotel website.

From this I was inspired to continue the yellow band from the first spread into the second, as another method of connecting the pages. Making sure the thickness of the bands are equal and in the same position within the page, I have placed a pull out quote from the interview.