In my magazine, I want the feature cover piece to be an illustrative cover based on breeding racehorses. Race horses are bred by breeding past winners of the sport to try and get the genetics of the winning ways of horses to pass down through generations. Some horses can be related to up to 9 winners. Obviously this covers intention is to be a striking image that is to draw in spectators of the sport that normally wouldn't look twice.
Development of design:
The basic idea on paper
Montage of photographs compiled together of past winners in illustrator.
Ussing silhoette, applied color palette to horse in a seperate layer in photoshop
Blending of colours using opacity levels
Background applied to the image. This is just a phototrace in illustrator bought into photohop and placed behind the image.
Illustrator file behind the drawing, changed opacity to have horses seeping through.
Playing with brightness levels to get a good balance between the two images.
Another version of the same image with the illustrator images 'stitched together' as an experiment.
Put into context with the cover layout in Indesign.
