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The Magazine
04/05 THE MAGAZINE
I started working on the illustrations and cover ideas for the magazine, looking at how the lonely character will be singled out among them all. I decided that by having the surrounding areas quite colourful and the lonely character and their space being filled with greys and blues, there would be a clear differentiation between emotions.
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I spoke to Iro and I was able to gather many more improvements for my work. Some of these being to change the title of the magazine, have a free-flowing layout (which will be more appropriate to the subject matter), having a selection of warm and cool colours in the pieces and handwriting the titles to make it more sympathetic and work with the illustrations.
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I immediately changed the colour palette by having a selection of 9 colours in the warm tones and 9 in cool tones to keep with the differentiating emotions idea but with a brighter feeling towards it, which fits in much better with what I am portraying in my magazine. Also, I edited some drawings so that they did not involve a person and showed the theme of loneliness through
a selection of objects or through light in a room. By doing this, my illustrations became a lot more thoughtful and were not so hard hitting upon the people who are feeling lonely. It doesn’t make their situation seem worse now, it just highlights what they are going through. Moreover, I changed the cover of the magazine by adding more details in the background of the building, such as brick, wood panels and shadows. This helped to bring the whole image to life and made everything less graphic and much more realistic, which helps with the audience having more sympathy towards the lonely character.
The selection of illustrations in the magazine all work together really well as a collective, particularly due to the colour scheme, but also because they are all relatable scenarios of loneliness that everyone can relate to at least once in their life. Therefore, by flicking through the magazine, hopefully anyone reading it will be able to connect with the images they are seeing and understand the feelings of the people and atmosphere in the rooms.
