I'd better at least get the backcover

EDIT: Okay, I wrote this before the winners were announced. You do not want to know who won (though all the entries - save like three - were all hilariously bad. I'm not mean enough to display them here, though.

Annually, my school would hold a contest for the next year's agenda cover. Two years ago, I made something, but forgot to hand it in. Instead of getting something relevant to our school and mascots, instead, we got this ugly-ass compilation of someone's portraits of random people, arranged on a blue background, with the school name printed in some cookie-cutter 3D word art I used to make all my titles in as a kid. Not saying that the portraits were bad - no, they were fine - but what do Twilight people have to do with my school (other than asking if they could use the school to film the high school scenes in Breaking Dawn), or Michael Phelps for that matter? Seriously, everyone I showed it to laughed. I vowed to submit my entry next year.
But then next year came, they pulled a dick move and changed the contest regulations that we all knew and loved. So now we're not allowed to use our school mascots or emblems, but instead focus on our motto of the year, "Killarney Cares". Lame. We ended up with a pencil crayon picture of stick people encircling the school. Better than last year, and we actually got to vote for it this time. Second place was a cover consisted of two stick people with our school name underneath it.

Anyways, end of tl;dr. What you needed to take from that is when I didn't submit something, something worse became the cover. No, not this year, dammit! It's a good thing we got use cougars and shamrocks again.

Sketch:

Cover:

Event File.

Thank you Google images for all the inspiration. Sure, you'll give me creepy pictures when I image search for "cougar", mainly hunters going "YEAH!" while holding up a dead cougar, and even a box of decapitated human heads, but...
(Maybe I should consider turning on my mature filter again...)

Only took me two days, and a big big improvement from the one I did two years ago. I was so proud of it, too, but now when I compare it:

Yeah. Not as blurry, I can say. Better text, too.


Made in openCanvas.
Edited in Photoshop.