Magazine is almost finished!

The fictional Blue Schooner Craft Beer Magazine is coming along, here is an Advertisement I made and a sample of the Op Ed page and Table of Contents. The Ad is for this bicycle that is also a mobile bar with a keg, tap and all, pretty damn cool. The company, Metrofiets, is from Portland, Oregon… where else?  Anyway, magazine is due Monday and I still have a lot to do. Mostly details to make it looks more realistic. I would like to add a Masthead to the left of the Op Ed page. Need to make up a staff, maybe there should be a mobile bar bike driver department.

ArtRage

Was listening to iPad Today on the TWiT Network and I heard about a cool drawing app called ArtRage. It is similar to many of the other drawing apps I have come across, like Sketchbook and Paper, but this one has one special feature. It can actually mix colors! It does a great job of realistic mixing. When you are using the paintbrush tool, your paint strokes remain “wet” and you can use another color and blend them together. The pallet knife tool also creates a realistic effect with sharp edges and will be useful for any Bob Ross style paintings you want to draw on your iPad. Still playing around with this app but I highly recommend it!

Blending Paint

Blending Paint

Here is the developer’s site: http://www.artrage.com/
There are Mac, PC, iPad and iPhone versions.

6 Page Spread Rough

This is a sample article (6 page spread) for the Blue Schooner project. The articles were pulled from online sites just to fill in text for the design. I figured since this is a Craft Beer magazine, a main article could be about the trend of canning craft beer. This is only a rough, I still need to add page numbers and fix a few rough cuts of images. Feel free to critique!