Design!!!

The first two pages are my design for the music department from the 2/15 issue. I used a lot of photography and not necessarily illustrations, which is something I am hoping to work and improve on for future designs. So...I am experimenting for the music department page for 3/1. The stories running are on a group, Apples in Stereo, which I have great publicity stills for and Kurt Cobain's documentary showing at the T/F Film Festival. I decided to try to come up with some type of illustration for the Kurt Cobain story, as any photos of him are pretty typical and have been seen over and over again- and obviously, none are recent either. What I decided to do was to use a photograph of Cobain, and cropped and changed it through several different tools in photoshop and illustrator to create a new image. From there I have experimented with several different colors and types of shadowing. Now, I am unsure whether to layer these on top of each other, line them up, or choose one color scheme and manipulate the photograph further...I am not really sure. So, if anyone has any advice of thoughts on where I can improve or if you like/dislike this idea, that would be great!!!