Hand Made Font
CONCEPT
This project was created to highlight my process from sketch to screen, and show support for the talented team at HandMadeFont.com.
Not yet a font, but definitely handmade, I grabbed my favourite Ecoline watercolour brush pens and wrote the quote onto Rhodia dot paper. Rhodia is super smooth and the watercolour concentrates glide across the page.
SKETCHING PROCESS
Placing tracing paper on top helped me formulate a layout, flesh out each letter and extend the flourishes. Here I was deciding how to join the capH to the lowercase a, and the capF to the lowercase o.
Once the design was vectored in Illustrator, I applied outlines, colour and drop shadow to give texture and depth. This phase changed several times.
COLOUR AND DETAIL
FINAL LOCKUP
Nested words, an additional drop shadows and linear gradient produced the final result.