Create some artsy type!
Now I'm not an expert on typography or type design so I'll leave you with a few inspirational artists:
Teagan White is an illustrator and designer who's doing amazing nature inspired drawings.
Sean Freeman is simply making some crazy creative typography!
Personally, I have few knowledge about typography (as I already mentioned), but love illustrating letters.
Here a some examples of work I've previously done:
At the moment I'm trying to wrap up my magical creature ABC aka weekly drawing project and since my goal is to turn the whole thing into a book I've been thinking about what would work best for the cover. With the letters ABC being a quite prominent part of the title I decided to illustrate them similar to the magical creatures themselves.
Incidentally that fell together with this month's challenge, so this happened:
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| choosing an arrangement I like plus some scribbles. |
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| Rough layout scribble |
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| Bringing everything in the right position and deciding on some details and themes. |
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| Trying to translate the layout to a larger format with arough charcoal pencil sketch. |
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| Switching to graphite pencil for defining the whole thing. (as you can see my drawing pad got roughed up a bit during transport when I moved out of my old apartment. I tried different paper for my drawings though and you can see the difference, so I've got to make do with a bit of krinkly paper for this. Take good care of your paper, people. I didn't, see what it got me.) |
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| Drawing. |
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| The finished pencil drawing! |
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| Plus digital colour! |
