Hand Drawn Typography

i like these 2 pieces of work because they are bright & colourful. i also like them because all the words are written in a different font, with different colours & different patterns. with these 2 particular pieces of work i prefer Hennie Haworth's because theres more of a variety of different words its bright & colourful, very eye catching & bold & she's used the whole page up. i also think that her work is just like loads of doodles you would do if you were bored, they really do look hand drawn.

Hennie Haworth & James Hancock

Wet & Dry Typography

 This is my 1 of my wet typography experiments, i spelt out my name using masking tape & sticking it onto the paper. this was quite hard because i had to rip up smaller bits to create the bends in the letters. I then painted over the masking tape with water colours, i used a variety of different bright colours just as do Hennie Haworth & James Hancock. I then gently pealed off the masking tape which proved difficult as i ended up ripping some of the paper up on 1 of my letters. to avoid this next time i would make sure the masking tape is less sticky. once i removed the masking tape i was left with white letters of my name on coloured backgrounds, this looked very plain so i decided to  get some ink and design some patterns in 3 of my letters i think this help make the experiment look more unique.







 this was my first hand drawn dry typography experiment, i used coloured pencil & felt pens. i tried to include in this piece as many different interesting fonts as i could, i even tried to experiment with what colours went well with each other as a pair. i think the felt pen experiments looks better as it is bolder & the colours are much more vibrant than the coloured pencils. if i was to do this experiment again i would just use felt pens & leave out the coloured pencils because they don't mix well together. i also think i should have used more patterns in the fonts rather than just the letters, i think i should have decorated them more, as Hennie Haworth & James Hancock's' work both make the fonts of the letters interesting by the patterns and decoration they use.







this was my second hand drawn typography experiment, i used black fine liner pen. again i tried to use different fonts for each letter, i even tried a 3D approach. i think the outlining of the letters helped make them look bold & stand out, i think the diagonal lines in the letter H help to emphasise the letter as its very eye catching. i think i need to improve on the 3D letter as i don't think i completed it to the best of my ability. i also think that although the black fine liner is effective that they would of looked better if bright colours were included into the fonts.

this is my third & final hand drawn dry experiment, in this on i used stencils for the felt pen letters & i also used transfers. i experimented with size, colour, background, direction, position & pattern in this piece. i also looked at capital & lowercase letters and how the arrangement of them could be effective. if i was to try this again i would continue my experiment with the background colours as i don't think the orange & green go very well together. i would also look into the repitition of the letters because i think this looks really effective especially if you use different colours that all go together, i think it would be a good idea to start off with a darker shade of 1 colour and get lighter as you go through. 

This is my example of hand painting typography, we had to used acrylic paint to make the letter we wanted to make. If  i was to do this again i would try a more difficult letter to challlenge myself.

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Hand drawn typography pictures inspired by Hennie Haworth and James Hancock.