Alphabet soup - Illustrator OUGD403.

With Simon we have been in workshops, learning how to use illustrator, and eventually how to create a full typeface using purely illustrator using one of our fonts from the original visual thinking brief. 

To start we had a worksheet to show us how to use the pen tool. Starting with straight line shapes, it got progressively harder, working our way up to a very tricky multiple curved line shape. Being that this was my first time using illustrator and the pen tool in particular i found this very hard, but really useful to know and practice.

 

Moving on from this we had a single letter form to trace  around using the pen tool, which i find very challenging but it was a great way to ease myself into doing my final illustrator typeface.

My final illustrator typeface was based on one of my 10 letter forms i did for the previous visual thinking brief, where we had to create 10 different versions of the letter form in response to the work boom. The typeface Is based on the font Cooper Std Black.

using the font as an outline, I used the pen tool to create straight lines in between the lines of the font to create my typeface.

Then taking away the original outlines to leave use the lines that I had created.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

My final typeface.