essay

For my illustrator project, I chose the letters X, J, C, O, L, G, and Q, only because I like the mix of hard and soft lines and edges that they all have. I did two different fonts, however (funny story) I picked one that wasn't on the sheet, and I can't read what it says on the computer, but it's some kind of squiggly, very curly cursive that I liked. I aplied that font to the letters that have a lot of curves and curls because it looks mysterious to me. The second font I chose was called Didot. I liked that one because it was the complete opposite of the first one, in that it was very stern and conservitive, and the other one was free. 

I began by taking my curly letters and I sprawled them across the page, making a winding path for the eye. That path ends with the tip of the Q, which points the eye directly down to the row of X's. I wanted to make an almost illusion with the X's, so every-other one was flipped upside down, see if you can catch it. After that, I made the counter-forms of two J's, but when you look at them (or at least when I look at them) you see three, because I overlapped the two forms. 

This project was immensly difficult for me; I've never used any of these kinds of programs, and technology completely rejects me. Because I struggled so much, I didn't enjoy doing it as much as I wanted to, so hopefully I will begin to understand these programs more and I will be able to enjoy what I'm doing.