Indie magazines focus on the artist and not so much on all advertisement. As we see here the artist is centre of the magazine, looking directly to the audience.
Indie magazines have very unusual house styles to there magazine for example, the magazine has little captions to symbolise the image. Sometimes they are funny and quirky, they can also be serious.
As you can see in the two magazines have the similar how style, they're both plain and symbolise a indies personality.
This will help structure my own front cover as i am doing a Indie Styled magazine. By the direct mode of dress (eye) contact, it helps me know what sort of camera angles and shot i will need to use for my magazine.
