Typography January
So after not posting a Typography post in December, I am
back with a brand spanking new one this month. As always I attached images of
each piece and also added a picture of the pens I used. This month was all
about uppercase letters; I found some awesome ones on Pinterest.
This one was a tad tricky to do actually, when I tested this
uppercase out first, I got the shadowing outlines all wonky. I was glad I had a
little practice because it turned out really well; I used the Pigma Micron 08
pen to outline then filled it in with the Paper Mate black flair pen. I shaded
the shadows with a 2B pencil. I love the fact that if you look at this image
from a distance, it kind of looks 3D which I was really happy out, this is a
first for me with doing some shadowing but I really enjoyed it and hopefully I
will be doing it a lot more.
This proved a little tricky again; when I tested this
uppercase out I actually found doing the corner curves hard. I love a challenge
with typography a lot more lately, helps me to improve my skill that bit more.
I used the Pigma Micron 08 pen to outline and then filled it in with the Paper
Mate black flair pen. I also shaded the shadows with a 2B pencil. This piece
looks great from a distance as well. It took a lot longer to fill in, as it was
a thicker uppercase.
I tried my hardest with this one; I actually practiced this
one a lot more then the others, as I was so attracted at the complicated look
of this typeface. It is rather easy to draw but it looks more interesting to
the eye more than anything. I only used the Pigma Micron 08 pen to draw this
one. Simple but rather quirky, I really want to find more weird typefaces and
maybe doing a Typography post only about them. Let me know what you think.
I am fascinated by the different forms of the punctuation
& as it looks great when done properly. I had to give this one several goes
before posting the best one. I may even just do a blog post about them. In
order to achieve this effect I used the Pigma Micron 08 pen to outline then the
Paper Mate black flair pen to fill it in. I really think this alone looks
great, if you added similar typography next to it I reckon that would look
awesome as well. I will be featuring these more in a few more typography posts.
So that's it for another Typography post, I love doing these,
as there are endless variations of posts for them. I mentioned a few ideas above;
I may even try doing one solely about logos. Who knows I have awesome plans for
my Typography posts this year; I may start to show you the original ones side
by side to mine. Let me know what you think by tweeting me. See you on the next
post.
Love Akika
xxxx
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