King of Kaiju

Color Work & Magazine Layout
The Idea
The rigidity of having a subject matter chosen for me allowed me to really hone in on the treatment of type and images. I was provided with body copy and a folder full of greyscale images and turned loose.
The Process
The real struggle behind this project was making a decision on my color scheme. my original instinct was to play up the destruction of Godzilla with red and black, like in the picture below. After tinkering with multiple different color schemes, I landed on a neon-inspired cyan and pink scheme, which not only matched Godzilla's signature atomic breath but modernized the subject matter.
Picking between the two schemes was like asking me which one of my dogs is my favorite— deep down I knew the answer, but I resented the predicament anyway.