Still exercising

 Time is getting cramped again and I am yet to begin my assignment for this online course; but I have kept on practising and testing ideas which is part of the deal right?

One of the styles that Brody references is the work of Nancy Bell Scott.

Apologies again for the clarity of these photos - something is definitely 'up' with the transfer of images  and I don't know why they are so fuzzy...

Its kind of like a single line, all connected, varying heights and sizes, yet with some common elements across the lettering. Very upright, here with a few loops.

The next step was to add a couple of design elements - I added 'squares' onto some of the straight lines; and dotted coloured in triangles into some of the gaps. Definitely made it more interesting.

 

And then I started to colour in a bit.

 

And decided it needed more colour.

And a tiny bit more...

And then I began again, looking for other ways to add interest. Starting with highlighting the dots on the 'i'

Then adding some thicks on both horizontal and vertical lines

To contrast I checked how things looked if I coloured in the counters.

 

And decided it needed a lit bit more, so some triangles along a few straight lines was the next test. And I think I decided I didn't really like the spiky look!

I then went and tried to write a few more lines, to see how a piece of work might look if it was a full page of text like this. I found it really interesting how as I wrote, the new line took the shape of the spaces left by the line above; design-wise I was always trying to get spaces filled and balanced. Which was good in a way as it took my mind off forming perfect letters.

I did it on nice olive green-grey paper, but it doesn't show up as well here.

I think this could go somewhere...