Class Info

  • Date: Thursday, October 20, 2022
  • Meeting Info: In person, Pearl-116, 8:30am to 11am, followed by office hours in the same location until noon. (Professor Beth back in class)

Topic

  • Lettering Continued: Choose one solution from sketches,
    working with materials around you

Objectives

  • Based on sketches and ideas, students determine what is the best way to continue with their lettering project:
    • Is it best to take photographs of objects? . . . OR . . .
    • Use traditional material (paint, draw, etc) or work digitally (with application)?

Approaches

  • Once you know which way you are working, then determine process to follow:
    • Capture image (via camera, scanner/ phone/ app/ copier)
    • Bring image into Illustrator/Photoshop/other apps. This depends on your solution, for example:
      • Trace or use pen tool in Illustrator?
      • Clean or adjust colors in Photoshop?
    • If working by hand: Use tracing paper and pencils, then marker to clean image.
    • Capture image again and repeat steps if necessary
  • Careful with spelling (you are essentially drawing so there is no automatic spell check!) and keep work editable if corrections needs to be made

This PDF shows an analysis what tools might work best within Illustrator

For this example Professor Giuliani experimented with paper, glue and actual sprinkles to create the letters. AS ALWAYS, devise your own solution.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is mg_sprinkles_food_example-1.jpg
The image needs to be cleaned in Photoshop

Activities

During Class: Type Talk

Look at the work of these lettering artists:

Martina Flor

Martina Flor

Jessica Hische

https://jessicahische.is/working

Mary Kate McDevitt

https://www.marykatemcdevitt.com/work

Danny Pelavin

Pelavin Portfolio

  • Create a new post: Last Name_TT_letteringartist
  • Give it Categories:
    • Student Post
    • Student Post Type Talk
  • Select a piece from one artist.
  • Take a screen shot and add it to this post
    • Whom did you choose?
    • What do you like about this piece? 
    • What do you like about the style of this artist?

Recap

Notice the steps followed for this example by Professor Giuliani:

  • Sketched
  • Chose actual sprinkles
  • experimented with glue
  • took photos
  • in Photoshop: cleaned the pencil marks
  • In Illustrator tried a different approach.
These are samples by Professor Giuliani. I’ll include a my solution for next class.
Devise your own solutions, of course!

Assignment

Bring lettering to next step: 
Must show progress next class (actual illustrations, photographs, collages, others)
File can be a JPG or PDF
name file: Lastname_progress1_lettering_102022 (with a suffix of .jpg or .pdf)

Upload to  Dropbox

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