Type Creation Gone Wrong Different

I think it would surprise literally NOBODY in the SCCA Graphic Design program that I had to do a major pivot in my project planning regarding one of Jason’s assignments. This pivot was for Jason’s most recent project, “Type Creation”. The parameters stated that you need to pick a plant or animal and then use the letters in the name to create a graphic image of that animal. Easy, right? The first step was to pick the animal, so I went with the first one I thought of, “Alligator”, natch. (Actually the first animal I though of was “Aardvark”, but fuck that…) Second we had to select a font that we feld best represented the animal we had chosen. Simple. I chose “Poster Cut Neue” cuz I was  bold, rough and bumpy like the skin of an Alligator. Third, this is where things get dicey, we need to take the font we had chosen and use the letters from our animal name (In my case A,L,I,G,A,T,O,R) and use only those characters to make a graphic illustration of our animal… 

SO, all the examples Jason showed us, of the final deliverables from past students, were VERY illustrative and looked very much like paintings… I won’t go into specifics, but I did not like how most of them looked. I did my best to mimic what I had seen in the examples, but I was not pleased with any of the results I was getting and was starting top resent this project intensely. After wasting hours and hours on this project, with nothing I liked to show for it, I finally said “Fuck it!”. I switched from trying to do a realistic illustration / painting of an Alligator, toward a more lofi cartoonish representation of my animal.

I also gave it nipples…