Mock photographs for magazine front cover

I have created ideas for two magazine front covers. The first is one I have already detailed on this blog about having a procession of three photographs. The second I have developed is just a simple one photograph front cover. Similar to Esquire magazine. I think this is a good look as it is simple and easy to look at and lets the reader get straight to the point. My image for the front cover of this magazine would look similar to this.

However I have decided that if I am to use a single photograph I must have the whole of the artists body in the picture to make it work. So to improve on this mock photograph I plan to have my artists whole body in the picture and have him standing more to the side. The guitar will be further over his shoulder and will rest further down his back. Giving the impression of a travelling man's bag. This is to show that my artist has taken inspiration from his travels. My artist will also look down at the floor just in front of him so that the focus is on his face. He will have a intense gaze on his face. 

Mock photographs for magazine front cover

This post shows some experimental pictures I took of people to help me start to think about camera angles I want to use with my actual model. (not the taken are not my actual models). This as helped me understand what i want to create with my model and the impression I want to put across via these pictures.

This is the style of image I'm thinking of using. There will be a progression of three to show that my artist has been up and coming. Starting with an image like this my model will face the opposite way to how he holds his guitar. The actual image I'll use will be my model against a white background with perhaps some vignetting.

This is the next image in the group of three I'll place on my magazine front cover. Here I'll have my artist finger picking his guitar and I'll try and make emphasis on how he is finger picking. In this picture it hasn't really worked as his guitar pick is pink and it just looks like he is sticking his tongue out. In my actual image my model will stood more upright. Again I might have my artist turning his head away from the direction that the guitar neck is pointing in, just because it adds a different feel to the image.

If I decide to use the idea of a procession of three images, this will be the last. I will have him holding the guitar then finger picking the guitar and then strumming the guitar with a pick in his hand. Here I have had my artist face in the opposite direction to where his guitar neck is pointing. If I was to use this idea for my front cover I would position the images so it would look like the first and the last were looking at each other.