C-C-R

AND FOR MY CCR:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUCw-KUrJ_s

Masterpiece

Here is my MAG!!
Hope you enjoy.

Here is the link: https://www.joomag.com/magazine/mi-primera-revista/0828688001492540545

Idea$ for 2 Page Spread

Weellll, I already had my idea down for the two page spread but now I need to expand on that idea.... 

I am going to be basing my two page spread on one of my really close friends that passed away a few months ago. And yes, I guess you're all wondering why would I base my two page spread on my friend's death, well I'm really not. I am actually basing it on the fact that many students at my school got tattoos in his memory.

I took some pictures of Sofia Depassier(this girl in my school) who was close to Max so she got a tattoo of his number on the soccer field (12). I also plan on using Nacho's tattoo picture, which is the one I used for my cover, and David's. David's tattoo picture I took a while ago when soccer season was still a thing but you can see the tattoo perfectly so I don't need to take anymore. 

Oh! Well I wanted to use Franco's tattoo for a picture as well but I texted, snapped, and instagrammed him but he has gone AWOL. I have also asked around and they said he's even not living in his house anymore so I guess that's not an option anymore. 

Hopefully those three pictures will look well. 

Two Page Spread Base

THIS IS THE LAST OF MY MAG.

This is very exciting but at the same time very scary knowing the end is near....

ANYWAYS, as I scrolled through the internet I found this website that talks all about my two page spreads. This website tells me everything I should know for my audience and how to achieve the perfect and successful two page spread. The things that I will for sure use for my magazine is the fact that the main headline should start be on the left. Also, usually most of the writing should be on the right hand side, and the pictures on the left, something like this:

This was the example on website.

Sources:
Nikola. "Magazine Spreads – Good and Bad Practices." Magazine Designing. N.p., 04 May 2013. Web. 6 Apr. 2017.

The Creation Process Continues...

and now... MY TABLE OF CONTENTS!!

Okayy so it took me a while to pick out a layout for my table of contents but I finally got it. The pictures are placed in the middle right and the headlines are on the middle left. I used again the same palette from my cover (the red, white and black) and it came out amazing. The pictures that I used for this page were: the pictures of the love/hate tattoo shop which I talked about in one of my earlier posts, the other tattoo shop I went to which I got the artists pictures (Pedro and Carlos), and a picture of Pedro's sleeve ink, I used Juan's inbox tattoo picture result (it came out amazing), I took a picture of my friend Valeria's tattoo which came out better than I thought it would because since her aunt's balcony doesn't get much lighting the tattoo barely showed so I had to edit it with an application that I will later talk about, AND I used my David's, my friend, soccer pictures that I found on my camera roll from when school soccer season was still on to give the preview of Max's Memory page.

For all of these pictures I had in mind to use lots of colors and not just colors but VIBRANT colors. So as I looked and looked for applications to give my pictures more lighting (like for Valeria's) and to make the colors on my pictures stand out more and be more vibrant I used A-HDR, an app that does wonders.

This application is honestly the best and I
thank it for making my table of contents
look so amazing.

This application turned my pictures from looking like this :

To this: 

AMEN TO A-HDR!!!!!

Creation Process Starts

I'm back and I can proudly say I am starting my cover..

The color combination that appears
on the website that caught my eye.

I really wanted to use Ignacio's tattoo picture because I think it really makes a statement and it will most definitely catch my audiences eye. Ignacio's tattoo covers his whole shoulder (it's a wolf in all black). Since the wolf was black and the background couldn't be something colorful or any vibrant color I used a black background to contrast and to make the picture more eye catching. I used the website from one of my earlier posts to create my magazine tittle, and I put it on a white font but after picturing what color font my story previews were going to be (I was thinking white) I looked up online which color went best with the black and white palette and the combination with red caught my eye the most.

After figuring out my color palette, I moved on to my story previews. That was the challenging part since coming up with clever and tattoo related story lines is not something I have done before. One of my story lines I did a preview of my two page spread. I had first put "Max's Memory as Body Art" because I really liked how it sounded, but then a better idea popped into my head and so I changed it to "Max's Memory Permanent On Us." Additionally, I did another preview based on the picture of my friend Juan, my friend who I got to use the Inkbox, which I'm most likely going to use for my table of contents. Lastly, my last story line I had to come up with it, I searched up on google "annual tattoo shows" because I wanted to give some sort of incentive for people to look and check out my magazine so this website came up of an annual tattoo expo. This was perfect to write down as one of my story lines saying something like "Win up to 20 tickets..." which is exactly what I wrote.

After having my title, my cover picture, and my preview story lines down I went ahead to take care of the small stuff. For instance, I wrote at the top write my blog name "Tattoo Obsession" and to the left corner I wrote the Issue number. I also, chose a barcode that was an option in Canva and placed it in the bottom right, right under the previews. After all was done I figured there was something missing, maybe like a catch phrase or something, and to be honest it took me a while to think of something as catchy as "Think it, Ink it" which I used right under my magazine title AND SO WELL, THAT WAS IT... MY THOUGHT PROCESS AND THE CREATION PROCESS OF MY COVER AND HERE IS THE END RESULT.

Sources:
"132+ Results for Tattoo Magazine." Tattoo Magazine () - Abstract Fonts. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Apr. 2017.
"Black And White Color Schemes - Black And White Color Palettes." Black And White Color Schemes | Black And White Color Combinations | Black And White Color Palettes. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Apr. 2017.
"New to Canva? Sign Up!" Amazingly Simple Graphic Design Software – Canva. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Apr. 2017.

Found Something Interesting

As I scrolled through my Instagram, I started to search up tattoo related pictures or anything that would come up related to tattoos or ink so maybe I could get an idea for my magazine and I across this!!

It's the world's first 2 week tattoo,
so  a temporary tattoo.

As soon as I saw this I realized I could use it for my magazine, and so I ordered it and it's supposed to get here in a few days, and my friend Juan is willing to use it so I could take pictures for my magazine, so nice of him, but anyways can't wait for this to arrive!!!!