Main Image Inspiration

For the main image on my magazine front cover I wanted to create something iconic, in the way of the John Lennon and Yoko Ono picture on the front cover of Rolling Stones. If I couldn't achieve that then I at least wanted it to look memorable. I got inspiration from the Special Edition DVD cover of the film The Big Lebowski, in which the main character The Dude is photographed in black and white, but the shades on his glasses are red. I tried to recreate this image but make it look more conventional to a magazine cover, and this is what I achieved: