Flower Your Spoons

For this week's Hand Letter's assignment, we had to make an entry for Spoonflower's alphabet contest.  The contest required us to create an alphabet and turn it into a pattern that can be printed on fabric.  We could only submit one and I chose the red, orange, and pink version; but I thought to include the other versions in this post since it was a tough decision.

Photoshop and marker
18"x21"

Moar Produce!

As you can tell, I am having a little too much fun with these produce alphabets.  I have another alphabet made out of asparagus that I will clean up in Photoshop and post over break.

Pretty in Produce

I have even more alphabets for Hand Letters class!  Last week, I made a texture out of India ink markers, graphite, and mascara.  This week, I scanned that page into Photoshop and pulled out letter forms from the texture.  Because of this project, I have found a new love for the magnetic lasso tool.

For homework this week, on top of the weekly alphabet sketch, the class had to make an alphabet out of produce.  We could either draw food or take pictures of food ourselves, so I went to the dining hall, grabbed all the fruits and veggies I could carry (without angering the people who work there TOO MUCH), and got to work.  I have two pieces because I have a border around the "R" in my original composition and although I really like how it looks, none of the other letters are like thar, so I cut it out in the second one.  Also, I made two "A" letters, but didn't have the heart to cut one of them out.  Anyone have a preference?

Hand Letter My Life

For Hand Letters, we are supposed to make one alphabet every week, so here is my very first alphabet.  I especially like the C, D, I, M, U and Z, but mostly D.  I really like the cool, funky letters, so for another assignment, we were assigned to make a banner for the class blog, so I just went with the letters I already made and I think it turned out pretty well.  Plus, the Hand Letters has a D, which makes me happy that I was able to use that D for something.  The whole class voted over which banner would be used and even though I did not win, my banner made it into the top eight in the class, which was exciting.