Whoo-hoo!

[azurite]

Alright, it might be 3:45 in the morning (but it doesn't feel like it to me-- I blame it on all the naps I had today!) but I'm DONE! (Not with WDKY22, sorry. :P)

I finished my extensively long reading and writing for Japanese.

I typed up a 3 page essay (which, 1.5 spaced turns into 5 pages!) for visual communications, regarding the Ethical foundations of photojournalism.

AAAND best of all, I finished my magazine cover for Visual Communication class! WHOO! The printed copy looks good, if a little crooked on the page, so I'll be trimming it down once the photo-gloss paper dries. I really like it... I hope my class does, too. :> Hopefully if there's another gamer in the class, they'll understand all the sly references I made. This version is actually a bit different from the one I originally intended; I think I tried to bite off more than I can chew and tell too much about the 2 games and the characters in my last version.

baine, I think I showed you an alpha version of this, right? See how it's changed!

Well anyway, enough of me babbling... here is my magazine cover design for Visual Communication class


Well, what do you think?

Comments

[rhapsody-dragon.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I like your design. :3 Props on creativeness. It's vibrant, bold, and you did a nice job photoshopping Yuna to a Luca bg. ^^v

I would suggest though, perhaps moving the 'newSpira' to the left side. Or something to remedy the bottom/right heaviness... it's just a bit unbalanced to me.

Also, with the text, perhaps try a smaller pt. on the outline? At least on the lighter outlines... I get a bit confused with all the different styles... perhaps try making 'headlines' one style and the story text the other? Or just make it so more of it is similar... otherwise it's too much to look at.

:3

[azurite]

Yeah, I was trying to balance it out as best I could; I spent the most time resizing and moving the text, and flushing it. If you mean a narrower stroke outline, I did think about that... the end result looked good, but it could have been thinner. It stands out more with the yellow stroked text.

I also considered only using the Demi font (I forgot the name) for the headers, and Impact for the text, but that looked weird, too. I tried to simplify with colors though: maroon, yellow, orange, and two shades of blue are it.

I already printed it and turned it in, though. ^^;