The process of creating the different typographic portraits was definitely a tough one, as my idea slowly keeps changing while at the same time I kept thinking of better ideas that I could work on.

The first idea, Weight Consciousness.

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The idea for the weighing didn’t seem that it’d work that well. I tried clipping the image onto text in photoshop, but it looked really plain and did not really stand out that much.

 

The second idea, Superhero.

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The idea of implementing spiderman for my superhero was one that I wanted to stick with. I started with searching for a font that suit the spiderman theme. After which, I searched for a good quality suit texture of spiderman that I can use and put into the text that I use. And to also include a subtle addition of a spiderweb in the composition.

The first picture shows one of the ideas I tried, and thats the font that I’m probably going to work with. I consulted again with prof. Shirley and she gave the idea of making the spiderman logo less obvious, and to show more texture of the spiderman suit.

 

The next idea is Soccer Player. 

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Initially I thought this idea would work, but it turned out pretty hard to continue. I tried finding many different soccer balls, and its textures and patterns to put in the the text. The first picture was when I tried converting the text into 3D shapes while including the pattern of a soccer ball onto it. But it looked kind of weird and definitely too bright. The second one I tried was to make it more 2D, and I tried using the ESPN logo font as the font for my name as well. It still didn’t seem to work that well, and it felt like something was missing.

 

The next idea was Finding My Way.

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For this idea, I had the whole idea for the maze already sketched out, as i’ve shown in my previous post. So all I had to do was to find a good pattern that I could work with and that would make the maze more believable and realistic. I choose the above texture of walls for my maze.

 

For my next idea, the Comic Book Artist.

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The comic book artist idea, I went with only showing the speech bubble of the old school pop art style comics. Initially I tried finding fonts of comic books or pop art style fonts, but it felt very unnatural, not really much like a comic, as shown in the first image above. The next thing I thought of was to make the font from scratch and drawing it out instead. It came out a lot better than a font I found on the internet. After consulting with prof. Shirley, she also asked me to try and include the pop art style of having the dotted or half-toned effect on the words itself. To make it seem even more so like and old school pop art style comic.

 

Another idea I came up with was, I am a Mahjong Tile.

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This last idea came to me quite suddenly, and also while I was playing mahjong. There are characters in all the mahjong tiles itself too, so why not include characters or letters of my name into each individual tile! So I took a picture of the tiles, one that would be easier to edit and move the images. I got blank tile which I could easily add in the strokes and patterns of each tile.

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These are the 3 different tile patterns from the mahjong set that I came up with. All forming my name after I edited and changed the strokes for each individual tile.

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Initially it started out with 6 ideas which we were supposed to present at the end. And these were the 6 ideas that I had initially before narrowing it down to 4 ideas, also with a few names/nicknames just right above it that I can use as the typography words.

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It starts with this, being Weight Conscious. My ideas were implementing the object of the weight scale and input the name into the part where it shows the weight of the subject. But prof. Shirley didn’t want there to be objects in the typography, rather having the texture or something that shows the object on the words itself. These are just a few sketches of how I wanted the idea to be like, but it wasn’t easy finding a good texture of a weighing scale.

 

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The next idea I had was being a Superhero. The first and only one I immediately thought of was being Spiderman. So with Spiderman, naturally I had thoughts of implementing webs that would form my name, and including a Spiderman figure at the corner to show that those are webs that are being shot out of Spiderman. But after consultation, prof. Shirley said she didn’t want to include and people or object into the typographic portrait, rather implementing the chosen object’s texture or material onto the words. So it went more towards finding the texture of the suit of Spiderman, or the features of Spiderman to put on the words itself. And also, to subtly include webs inside to add on to the features of Spiderman.

 

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The next idea I had was being a Dancer. Initially I thought this idea would come out pretty nice, or at least easier to do. I tried implementing dance moves into each individual character of the words. But as I showed it to prof. Shirley, she said the words didn’t really show much movement, and it really is hard to capture the movement as the character kind of seems pretty static. As dance is really all about the movements and the flow of the moves as well. I tried including a stage as well, in the sketches, and a spotlight, to show like as it the characters are performing on a stage.

 

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(Ignore the weighing scale sketch below the shoe, unrelated to soccer)

My fourth idea was being a Soccer Player. And as it was for the start of the previous ideas, I wanted to implement the object of either the soccer ball or the boots of the player into the typography. But as prof. Shirley did not want to include the objects itself into the typographic portrait, I had to include the objects or textures of it onto the words. And the one stand out thing of being a soccer player is probably having the soccer ball texture on the words itself. So I tried different ways of including the texture as shown in the sketches. With one of which I tried including the texture of the soccer ball, and fitting the typography into a shape of a soccer boot.

 

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And as for the next idea, it was me Finding My Way. And what better way to find my way is to put myself in a maze. So immediately I thought of how I could implement a maze within my name. I went on to research a little on how mazes were made, and how the lines for the maze INSIDE of a huge square or rectangle. I found a simple maze as shown above in the images, and I got the idea of how I wanted to put my name as a maze that shows that i’m Finding My Way. So I hand draw everything onto my sketchbook to slowly try and piece everything together and form a real maze. P.S. the maze can really be played.

 

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And for the my last idea, was me being a Comic Book Artist. So the first thing I thought of to really show a comic book style, is the old school way of how actions happen. Like when there’s an explosion, or someone gets punched as shown in the images above. Instead of the action word of getting punched, I would include my name in the action word, as shown in the image above. But prof. Shirley said that I did not have to go so much into details to show a comic book style by showing a whole panel of a comic. Rather why not just show the word itself of going BAM, BOOM or CRASH as shown in the second picture of above. And instead of those words, put my name into it. And also to modify the comic art style into a more old school pop art comic style.

 

These are all just my initial ideas, and definitely as one gets further into a project, the ideas gradually change and hopefully get better.