Cover Girl

When we got this assignment, I started grinning and the grin stayed for most of the project. Put yourself, it explained, on a magazine cover, and make up some articles about yourself to feature with your picture. Technically, we found out, we could use someone else, but my rampant narcissism never even hinted at that possibility. It was baffling...talk about some else? We were to use Esquire Magazine for our basic style, which also had vector art of its header readily available, but it didn't seem right for me.

I picked the picture first and then everything else really just picked itself. This is one of the coolest pictures of me I have (thank you, Patrick). We did have to use an interesting text style that overlapped our image somewhat while still remaining legible, which is not a feature of Gothic Beauty magazine, but whatever. Horns and corsets aren't really a staple of Esquire.

I had to build the headline from scratch, which become much easier once I finally figured out what the font was (Black Chancery) but still didn't end up perfect thanks to the annoyance of edge effects on the letters. But eh. For the requirements of the assignment it worked fine, so I went with it. There are only two fonts used, with the exception of the header and bits and that stupid word "magazine" which are some avant garde font thing. It seems kind of a jarring font choice for a magazine about Gothic Beauty, but mine not to reason why.

For some reason, all the black of the border and text is a strange grey in the PDF that I converted into my PNG for posting. I'm not sure why.

Here are some actual covers so you can see how mine looks in comparison.