Monogram.

For my Hand Letters class we were told to put together all of our work from the semester, adding a monogram and full name to the compilation. You can see the results regarding my name in the new blog banner, and this is the result of spending way too much time obsessing about the monogram being perfect.

In addition, the blog has gotten a fresh new look to go with the end of this semester. Much better I think.

Fabric Design.

Found out today that my hand lettered fabric pattern made it through as a finalist in Spoonflower's alphabet contest!

Click here to see my competition and vote for me!  Voting is now closed.


(The submissions rotate through pages so I cannot link directly. Look for my design, my username is Morphkid03)

Thanks!

Handlettered Pattern.

For my Hand Letters class we were asked to create a pattern based on letters/the alphabet for a contest hosted by Spoonflower. I fooled around with the entire alphabet (with some letters repeated) and am pretty happy with how it came out! It was my first official jump into true tile-ready patterning and I gotta say, I really like it. The first ones were my first color choice, the second ones are the ones being submitted to Spoonflower due to highly saturated colors and dark colors potentially having trouble being printed on to fabrics.

Words on Wheels.

So I was lucky enough that my hand lettering class was selected as one of the ones that would compete for Words on Wheels (which is "contest" based on a partnership with MICA and select Baltimore grade schools) for the chance to have your work with the child's poem featured in the Baltimore City public buses. I ended up getting "My Dreams and Beliefs" and decided to illustrate the narrator (long with a future version of himself) "thinking" the text. Unlike the Concepts classes that got this assignment, I was allowed to hand letter my poem as long as the title was the only thing done "fancy"- the poem itself needed to be pretty simple so it was easily read. We needed to follow specific size and orientation guidelines, which is tough when you are working with something so long and thin, but I think I did alright with it.

I am pretty happy with how the illustration turned out, but I edited the thought cloud to be larger upon my teacher's suggestion, causing the text to feel too rigid in the center. If I get selected I will be reworking the way the poem is spaced out and it's size- I didn't have enough time before I had to go print and submit it to the Illustration department.

On a fun side note, this assignment forced me to break my habit of perpetually drawing women and get some dudes in. On a not so fun note, I had to spend 5 hours in our school's print lab waiting to be able to get a print with the correct colors due to their large scale printer having issues with it's ink distribution.

Handletters Blog Header.

Another semester has begun! I started it off with a bang by getting my gallbladder removed the week before winter break ended (I had gallstones that affected me throughout last semester). It was a pretty crazy experience but luckily I'm healing well and things have overall been going well.

So this piece is a header that we were asked to design for the class blog in my hand lettering class with Whitney Sherman. I have a ton of preliminary sketches for this assignment I might eventually scan, but for now here is the final. Unfortunately, mine did not get chosen, but I did make it to the top 8 in the class which was exciting.