Mock up of magazine cover

I looked around the internet to get inspiration for good layouts and then designed mine by hand in pencil first just to get a good idea of what it will look like. I didnt want to create something on the computer that I ended up not liking. I did three ones by hand, and then chose a final one to actually create on a desktop program. I ended up using the program Photoshop to create my mock up. All images I took from the internet I edited and I tried using a use of three colours for a scheme to keep it simple but appealing. In my previous research I noticed that most magazines have a large image on the right or filling the whole page so I followed that idea. Overall Im quite pleased with my mock up cover because of the dramatic colours I decided to use. I couldn't decide however which final one to use because there were two images, one with a close up of the music artist and one with a mid close up shot. I'm considering showing them to my target audience to see which one they prefer before I decide on which kind of shot to use in my final cover.