I didn’t have to search for too long on any of the projects. Most of the time I would briefly scroll through the type faces and after seeing one or two I would think – I can make that work. Once they were on the canvas I’d rasterize them and then experiment with size rotation and color until I came up with a semblance of an idea. One of the challenges I faced was the color difference between the lab computers and my home computer. When I was working with “An Even Forest” on the lab computers every color appeared bright and complimentary, but when I downloaded it at home it looked like a very dead forest in the middle of a snot colored desert. However, this could just be the difference between my objective eye and my eye as the immediate artist. I might have been so involved in the making of it that I forgot it was no longer beautiful.
I had a plan to choose every letter very carefully with significance in my life in some way but by the second piece I scratched that notion and just chose whatever letter looked cool on the keyboard. So I started with a single letter on the canvas and went from there.
I would have to go with “Davyd and the ‘Y ith”. When Professor Inada was talking about scale contrast in lecture on Monday this image popped into my head. I didn’t know at the time that our next project would be about letters, but image that came to me was a large dragon that knew it was the king of it’s world until it looked over and there was the head of an enormous dragon that barely fit in the frame. I still wanted to incorporate this in my piece somehow so I translated my idea to a piece using only the letter Y. I knew that I was finished when The ‘Y ith’ had her scales.
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