Put your cover where your MOUTH is!

Mouth London is a new free publication, written, submitted and created by young people for young people. From now on I will be writing, photographing and drawing for the magazine and today was my first assignment - the front cover for the issue one (start big!).

The biggest challenge was the layout, as designers decided to place their logo (which, by the way, is a massive black circle!) right in the middle of the front cover, so I had to improvise around the hole!
Not having as much time as I would like to, I decided respond to the subject of London by referencing the portrait of the young queen Elisabeth on a five-penny coins, as well as some of the classical paintings and (subsequently) the work of Tom Hunter (who is having a show next month and is a head-speaker for Vision10, which, of course, makes it all very relevant). Here is the result (just imagine a huge black spot in the middle of it or wait until the paper is out and grab your free copy!):