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In this lesson, we'll do a really playful exercise where we'll draw words by how
they
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sound or by their definition.
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By doing this, we'll start to look at letter spacing, overlapping and
legibility.
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Okay, I've called this exercise furry words and that's because furry is such a
great word
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to draw.
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I'm going to start off by really faintly pencil sketching in the word furry,
just quite loose
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to give myself a rough guide.
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So F-U-R-R-Y, there we go.
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And now I'm going to use those pencil lines as a guide to start drawing this
word as furry
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as I can.
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So we're being quite literal here, we're drawing the word furry as furry as
possible.
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Here's an R. And for the middle, we'll get the fur going the other way.
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Here's the next one.
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And there's the Y.
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And we can maybe add a few little details inside the letter.
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A bit of extra fur.
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Really enhance that furriness.
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And there we go.
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Maybe we can get this even furrier.
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Maybe we can start doing a few little loops in the fur.
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So I've lost the pencil lines this time,
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and I'm just going to go for it.
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I'm going to do the F, add a few more details,
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maybe a few details on the outside.
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We can overlap these letters a little bit now
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to get them to look as furry and as fluffy as possible.
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And this is the point where we have to start looking at
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if you can still read it as a word.
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Are we overlapping too much? Are we too furry?
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We can kind of work this out as we go along.
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Add in those details.
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Try and make this word playful and fun.
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As furry as possible.
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There we go, a few more extras outside.
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but maybe we can join these letters up to make it one big lump of fur. So here's
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the part of the F, from the F we can go into the U and then we'll draw in the
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bottom of the R. Let's just remind ourselves where we are in the word,
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finish off the F and here's the U and the R. I'm going to connect this one to
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rest of this R.
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Let's finish that off and then the Y.
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There we go, all connected, so we can add a few little bits of detail.
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And there we go, that's pretty furry.
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We can maybe even add a quick bit of shadow to the sides,
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just to help lift it off the page.
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So it doesn't matter if you've made any mistakes
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or you're not happy with how this looks,
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just keep moving along, have another go,
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keep drawing, keep practicing,
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until you're happy with the furriness of your word.
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And I'll see you in the next video.
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and the shadow I'm adding is to the kind of the left-hand side and the bottom so
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it's as if the lights coming from the top right and it's just casting a
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little shadow onto the bottoms and to the left-hand side of each word so every
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time I'm faced with a left-hand side or the base of a word I'm just adding a
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thicker line it doesn't have to be too accurate just to get the idea across
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maybe a little bit there inside there there we go maybe a bit more detail
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there we go furry
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and then we can move on and do the same for the next word let's go for something
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a bit different let's go for slime so I'm going to use the pencil lines just to
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kick me off just to get me
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more comfortable with drawing the word. So I'm just going to sketch out really
quick in pencil
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the word slime. Now like furry I want to make this look as slimy as possible.
And because I'm left
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handed I often start on the right hand side, the furthest point away from the
beginning of the word
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just so I don't smudge it as I go along. And I'm going to add drips
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and slime all the way to the bottom of each of these letters just to make this
look as slimy
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as possible. And like the furry I can add a few details, a few drips inside.
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Moving on, also trying to make this look fairly irregular. So trying to make it
look as normal
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as possible or as realistic as possible. So the drips are different lengths,
they're coming off
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different points.
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Maybe some are dripping off the side.
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Just trying to get as much of that definition into the words as possible.
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So here's the L, maybe a really big drip.
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And yes, here we are, the word slime made of slime and maybe we can have some
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dripping into the own letter itself. There we go and we can have a few drips
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falling down, maybe even a puddle at the bottom. A little bit more detail.
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There we go.
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I'm just going to try one more now without the pencil guides
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and I'm just going to try and make this a little bit more free form.
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So I'll start with the E again. I'm thinking about those drips where
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they're falling. Sometimes without the pencil guide you
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can create something a little bit more unpredictable,
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a little bit less designed so to speak.
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Here, look, the M is falling a bit higher.
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So it's making it look a bit more dynamic.
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And so every time the letter goes to the bottom,
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all these drips are just slowly dripping away.
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Add a few details.
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Now, when you're drawing words backwards
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or spelling it out backwards like this,
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it's really easy to spell things wrong.
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And I do it all the time.
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So, by all means, work quickly,
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but try and think a little bit
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about what's coming up next every time.
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Okay, there's the L. Now the S, this is going to be tricky, so maybe this part's
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dripping onto itself.
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And again, we could add another shadow, a few more details,
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add a shadow to this one.
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And the shadow is just a really quick way to give your letters
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and your designs that bit of extra boldness
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to help them jump off the page.
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I'm going to add some shadows to the drips as well.
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So I'm just working my way along using the left-hand side
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and the bottom of the letter again.
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I think when you're doing this, it's important that all the drips go directly
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If they start dripping off to the side, it might kind of look a bit too strange.
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I'm just going to finish up the shadows on this E.
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And there we go, slimy slime.
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So these are kind of our textured words, furry and slime.
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We'll go on to sounds and how to incorporate sound in our work.
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So I'm going to try with the word boom, I think.
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I'm just going to write it out, get a feel for the letters.
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So here's the word boom.
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Naturally, I'm just drawing it quite bold.
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To kind of match the sound it's making in my head.
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Maybe actually, to make it really boom, we can add an extra O.
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So on this one, I'm just overlapping the letters a little bit,
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just to kind of get them really close together.
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I'm going to put that extra O in.
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and the M and maybe even an exclamation mark as well.
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So this is working quite well. We're getting a lot of sound from this word but
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let's try and take this even further. So maybe if you did the B really small
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and that first O a little bit bigger and gradually increase the scale.
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Maybe we can get an even an extra couple of O's in there.
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To really help us get that huge scale.
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And then an exclamation mark. And we can even just start overlapping our
letters,
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even overlapping previous drawings. It doesn't really matter. We're just trying
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to get as much of the definition into this work as possible.
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I'm going to try again. I'm going to maybe elongate these letters a little bit
more.
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Just trying to capture as much energy, as much of the definition of the word as
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into these letters.
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So I'm just kind of playing here, just trying to get a feel
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for how I think this word should look.
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So already I'm making this M pretty big.
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There we go.
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I'll just draw part of the exclamation point there.
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And maybe we can even have some explosive shapes, as if these O's
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were speakers.
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a few more details. There we go, boom.
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There's loads of sound words that are great to practice drawing with. Boom,
buzz,
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crack, all these words make great typography. But let's try something a
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bit more difficult. Let's try concepts. So let's try the word angry. So how do
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make the word angry look angry? Well to me it would be kind of maybe jagged,
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maybe looking a little bit unconventional, as if the letters are
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twisting with rage. So I'm just going to try a few quick ideas.
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Maybe they need to be a bit chunkier to try and almost make them look like
they're shouting.
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We could connect them up.
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I'm just trying to make this word look as angry as possible.
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So here, I'm not trying to overthink things too much.
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I'm letting my hand and my pen do a lot of the work.
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I'm trying to imagine that anger inside of me
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and trying to get it to come out into these letter forms.
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This one's going to be really, really out there.
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I'm really getting angry
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that these aren't looking angry enough.
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So maybe some more points.
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Maybe these sharp edges,
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these points are working really well.
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So let's incorporate some more of those.
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Maybe there's a kind of lightning bolt of rage
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coming off the R here.
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And again on the Y.
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Really, really angry.
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Maybe we can add a 3D element
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and a bit of extra detail
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just to kind of enhance the emotion going on in these letters.
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So a bit like adding the shadows to the letters,
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imagine the 3D elements is on the left-hand side
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and the bottom of each letter.
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So I'm just adding these shapes
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from the furthest points from that side
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to add that 3D effect.
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And maybe add some angry texture to part of them.
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There we go, angry. How do we make a word look really angry?
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What I really love about drawing words like this, especially words like angry,
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that are filled with so much emotion, is kind of drawing them contradictory to
their definition.
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So we could have the word strong here, looking really bold and strong.
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But what happens when we draw that word so it doesn't look strong at all?
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So these are really big, solid, stable letters,
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and you totally associate this with the word strong.
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But what happens when we make this word strong look really weak and feeble?
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How does that affect how we read that word?
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Is it still strong? Is there a kind of hidden meaning or a joke going on here?
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I think sometimes that play with definitions and play with letter forms
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can really make the person reading your work
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change their perception on what they're reading or make them think twice about
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what you're trying to say.
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So that word strong is definitely looking a little bit flimsier, but how can we
make
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that look even more flimsy?
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Maybe if the edges were rounded, maybe if they were broken, so we could split
this S
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up into rounded, broken pieces.
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and so because I haven't left myself enough space across the page the G and
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the N are falling lower than the rest so that's kind of enhancing the fact
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that this isn't strong it's kind of falling away a little bit and then we
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can add a cast shadow just behind this to make it look like it's floating
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But we can kind of keep going with this.
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We can keep going with the letter designs
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to really find a way of drawing it
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that makes it look exactly how you want it to mean.
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I think it's always important
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to do something slightly unexpected in your work.
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That's a good way of making your work
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stand out against other people's.
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So here I'm just imagining another letter, identical, is just drawn just behind
it and
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slightly offset.
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Again, not trying to be too precious or too refined, just trying to get the idea
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There we go, strong.
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In this lesson, you've started to playfully use emotion in your letter forms.
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Continue this lesson with your own words and challenge yourself to draw
something with
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a really complex definition.
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In the next lesson, we'll see how using color can break up the monotone feel to
your sketchbook
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and help you to open up new creative ideas.
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So I'll see you there in a sec.
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