Front Cover first attempt.

This is the first draft of my front cover, i will change it sooner or later depending on the ammount of criticism i receive from my piors. I chose a house colour of red and black because i felt they were quite sensibe and wouldn't look tacky, a tacky colour for me would be something like silver and yellow or something that ridiculous and the readers wouldnt take my magazine seriously. I was stuck between two pictures of my model, but i chose this one becase i think he looked more arrogant and proud, much like any rockstar. If i had to improve this cover i would include more coverlines and perhaps a big red circle in the top right corner next to/slightly behind the models head with some informtation for the readers that would attract their attention more. I didn't want to steal focus away from the models head though and clog up the cover with words and make it seem very busy. The most important words are highlighted in red, including the 6 in my title '6 String'. I changed the title from Gstring to 6string because i felt that Gstring was a bit too rap/hip-hop. And in this project i want to mainly focus on rock/acoustic music, but as much as i loved the title Gstring, i wasn't up for changing that musical genre. Another improvement i would make on this front cover is the artist examples used, I would swap Jamie T and put in a better, more relevant artist but i don't know how to change the text because my photoshop skills are very limited...