Background of Front Cover- Inspiration

After cutting out my picture I was left without an appropriate background. I needed one as without it, the cover would look less refined and less like one that would be sold on the market. I thought the gradient and fill effects for the background on Photoshop looked too amateur and more to a GCSE standard, so I chose against that. I decided to make a good background for it I would have to take a picture of something, but all the pictures I took didn't look appropriate for the magazine I was making. In the end, I took inspiration from The Mighty Boosh star Noel Fieldings book Scribblings of a Madcap Shambleton, in which he uses a variety of self drawn doodles and scribblings as backgrounds for images. To mimic this effect, I scribbled various drawings on a wipeboard and built up a large image. After finishing, I took a picture of it. Here is an unedited version of the image and the book I took inspiration from: