So when I was a teenager I was obsessed with the Chalet School series by Elinor M Brent-Dyer.
I was in a fan club, and in 1994 I entered a competition for a new magazine cover (didn't win). I recently came across it, and thought that, as 2025 was the centenary of the first book, I might have a go at redoing it. I realise I'm cutting it a little fine...
My 1994 cover:
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This was Before Computers, so I used film with a dotty pattern for the shading!
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Actually, I preferred my initial idea, which back then I had discounted as 'not working', so based my new idea on that one.
And because it's not going to be photocopied, I decided to use colour. But, to give myself a challenge, used a limited palette: black, white, uniform colours of brown & flame, gentian blue & crimson, a pale straw colour, and green. I got variety by using paler versions of the colours - no colour mixing.
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| The uniforms are: left -1920s, bottom - 1930s/40s, top - 1950s, when the
school split and we follow the new branch with a new colour scheme, and
right - 1960s. |
I quite like it. There's a lot of stuff that could be improved (not least the faces), but since it was just for fun and I'm running out of time this year, I won't!
