Recent Sketches: Font Faces

Anybody who checked out my post yesterday might have noticed I started drawing the type as I watched "Helvetica". One of the things that starts to happen when you look at a letterform for too long is that the negative shapes start to become more interesting that the positive ones. (Sorta like when you look too long at your written name -- it becomes a meaningless jumble of strokes) Anyway the counter of the bowl of a lowercase "a" became fascinating to me as just a shape and I wanted to see what I could do with it. So these faces are make up of the negative shapes of the lowercase "a", "s", "e" and "w" from the font Helvetica. Makes me wonder what kind of expressions I might get if I had a go at Baskerville.

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Watched the movie "Helvetica" last night. My doodles took on a decidedly typographic quality.

It is interesting that it's the counters to certain letterforms that I find the most distinctive. Not something I particularly noticed during my college type courses.

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Did some drawing in downtown Portland yesterday.

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Recent Sketches: Fredrick at the Zoo

Recent Sketches: Fredrick Grabs a Snack

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Recent Sketches: Fredrick takes a Bath

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Playing with type and image.

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It's been a while since I did an Alice in Wonderland image, but with all the new trailers for the Tim Burton version popping up it's been on my mind again.

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Why? . . .  'Cause subs are freakin' cool!

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There have been a lot of discussions about character design in the studio recently.