sketches

First Draft Sketches

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With a general idea for the theme, storyline and synopsis of my picture book, I began some sketches of characters and objects.

As I am not the best artist in the world, I thought logically about my drawings and decided to draw half of each character, so both sides would look identical. I may later decide to draw some more characters and/or versions of my characters so they can appear more than one in a different pose, but for now I want to experiment with some of these.

Now scanned in, I can start adding colour using the paint brush tools in Photoshop, and experiment watching YouTube tutorials on how to make these characters look more realistic.

Typography design – Experiment #1

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So, as my first attempt at my typography sculpture I chose the word “love” as when seen most in signs or slogans etc it is most commonly written in a serif font to represent its meaning. I began by sketching out the different fonts I wanted to use, and sketched the added wires and flowers I had planned on top.

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And then the creation began. I used three or four wires at a time and twisted them in a irregular pattern and shaped them into the letters. I thought it would be easier if the letters were joined so then the wire could just be continuous… I then ran out of wire. Despite this, I added a couple of flowers to what I had of the word “love” to see if they worked well with the wire, and I loved the finished product!

As a first draft idea, I was pretty happy with my end result! However I wanted to change my idea so I had more letters for my final piece, with a variety of upper case and lower case to show my type design clearly. I searched through Google short quotes and sayings and discovered the quote I want to use, “Beautiful Chaos”. I also wanted to add more materials to my sculpture so I am on the hunt for ideas of metal/wiring I can use.

Second Workshop

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In our second workshop we started designing our own typefaces and learnt the hard way how difficult it is to draw a type! Choosing a font and writing a letter on a grid in Adobe Indesign, I began sketching and copying the letter by hand in my sketchbook. We did this by following an online guide: http://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/the-basics-of-drawing-type-creating-your-own-handwritten-font–cms-23089 

By the end of my work I was very proud of my letter “F”, and decided I wanted to do a whole word, and try a serif font – up the game a little bit! This one, I definitely found more difficult, trying to make sure the correct parts were thicker and thinner, and each letter being the same distance apart.

Despite it being harder, I do much prefer the san serif font. I feel its just more interesting and appealing to look at. For my project I think I would like to create a type that is san serif.