Digitize your letter

1. Photograph your sketch (keep it as straight as possible

Are your borders are square and parallel

2. Digitize your letterform

• Start with the font that you used for your sketch
• Crop it to create a digital version of your sketch
• 5″ square
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3. Create 2 versions and post to Miro

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You can try this method:
Open a new 5-inch square document in Illustrator
Do you need an illustrator refresher: Illustrator Tools Tutorial?

A.   Add your photographed sketch to your base layer

(open layer palette from ” window”>in layer palette
click the “hamburger in the palette’s top right corner to create a new layer)
Once the size and position are correct,
Lock it in place. (object>selection>lock selection)

B. Add a second layer

1. 1. 1. On your second layer, use the “type tool” to add the letter that you used for reference.
      2. Position the letter on top of your sketch
      3. Adjust size and angle to match your sketch.

Save as a layered pdf

C. Fill the positive areas with black and the negative areas with white.

D. Refine your composition

Adjust it (twist, resize, but do NOT change the original proportion!!!)

• • • Trick: remember how we used white rectangles to crop our compositions? 
      Create white horizontal and vertical rectangles.
      Use “cropping frames” to refine your composition and create a figure/ground study.
    • ****see diagram at the bottom of this page

E. When your composition is refined
make a 5″ square with a 1 point outline to frame your composition

Again, save this composition as a layered pdf

F.   Save your final composition as a jpg

Save your layered pdf as “version 2”

G. Make a copy of your original PDF (“Save As” name it version. 2 or version B)

Use the same process to create a second composition

Save that pdf, then export as a jpg

Post both jpgs to Miro

QUIZ

• • Use the text tool to add the project criteria to your frame
  • QUIZ: Does your solutions fit the criteria?
    if, not, why?

 

Diagram:

using white rectangles in illustrator to crop your compositions

examples:

Figure Sky: These photographs use urban buildings to frame letterforms. The empty sky becomes the dominant figure, and the buildings become the back-ground that makes them visible.

These photographs use cut paper to frame letterforms.