Photoshopping & House Styles

After my rough, yet, earnest attempt at photoshop (which I am, for some reason, unable to load up onto my blog) I am ready to look at the 'house styles' of some magazines for the inspiration of my own.

I first analyzed lots of covers of three different magazines and determined the typical layout and features each magazine present, I then (badly) sketched a mock of each magazine to display the typical layout, without any specific content included, I just presented the average cover for each magazine.



After producing these three examples, I sketched (again, badly) a prototype of 'the typical music magazine' which my own magazine will be based on.



Again, the actual wording on this particular example should be disregarded as it's only the layout that I am concentrating on at the moment.