Teagan White

Ive just come across this artist that I saw on Matt's blog. And I really like her work Here are some examples of her Typography work. My favorite has got to be the braided one! you can see more of her work on her webstite here I also now watch her on Deviant art here.

Fonts Inspiration

Asi still have no idea of what to do for my fonts I looked at a load of handmade fonts other people have done. They are very creative and some are quite beautiful. I especially love the ones that have illustrated the letters turing them into pictures, I think my favorites from these are the fonts by Sasha Prood, Karina Eibatova and Ania Szerszen as I just love how they turn the charaters into illustrations creating pictures with words. I may do something similar to this as I really like this type of font design.

I got most of the fonts from this website Handmade Font

Blue ink

Typography designs with pencil by Sasha Prood

Sasha Prood

Drawn font by Sasha Prood

Bread

Bread crusts

Sakke Soini

Djlines

Ania Szerszen

Ania Szerszen

Ania Szerszen

Karina Eibatova

Karina Eibatova

'C'

'K'

'Q'

'T'

'X'

Gouache

Illustrated font

High Heel by Zummi

Ink Destroy

Ink Splash

Lego

Notes Yellow

Paper pattern

Paper Clip

Pencils

Jonathan

Sevigny by Geisler Harald

Sherlock

Simple pattern

Soap bubbles

Stick

Light Neon

Zine Final

Zine

Here is my zine. I had to take a picture of it on my wall because its too long to fit in the scanner. I will be uploading a better quality version later on when Ive stitched the other photos together. In my last post I did promise to explain the girl in the story is invisible, you may have already figured it out but Im going to tell you anyway. The fact is that the girl is actually a ghost, a spirt of a young girl, but she doesnt realise that she is dead. She has been dead so long he has forgotten her past life. She has never remembered ever talking to someone or ever being seen by anyone. and that is what is so about this story. I dont know why I chose to make it so sad.

But the idea is influenced by the shows and books I have recently been reading. All about those who are living but are dead, that long to lead a nornal human life. That want to belong an walk among life but know that they are not normal, and can never be human again.

Zine

Colour

Black and white

This is the first section of my Zine. I cant scan the whole thing as it is too long to fit in the scanner. Basically what Ive done is ive ripped round my London photographs and joined them together thats why its soo long. It fits across my bedroom wall and I had to roll it up to fit it in my bag! Well what Ive done is Ive created a story. Its about a young girl (with no name, well she doesnt really need a name) Its quite a sad story, a little haunting too. thats why the photos are black and white. Basically the girl is invisible, therefore no one can see or hear her, she is very alone, so to try and have fun she explores places, in my zine she is exploring London. As she is invisible she can do what she wants, and no one will see her, I like that aspect, because sometimes there are times I wish I was invisble.

The sad aspect of this story is however that she is always invisible and she doesnt understand why, she can never comunicate to anybody.
 I chose to use a white paint wash on top of the photos, for the places she is in the photos and then drew parts of her in with black biro not shading her in but just drawing out line, to create her translucent look.

I wasnt very precious with placing the paint as I wanted it to be quite expressive and rough. There were points were I flicked, splashed and blew paint. That part was quite fun :)  also enjoyed tearing up the photos :) I chose to tear and not cut out the photos to help keep it looking rough and expressive,so that it expresses the girl's inner frustration and anger with her situation.

The font is also hand drawn with emphasis made on certain words.

I did some intial sketches of the character, to get her looking how I wanted her to look:

First sketches

Second sketches

I wanted her to be a black girl with a big afro, sorta like mine. To have a little of myself in the work :). I bet ur wondering why she is invisible. Maybe your not, or maybe youve already figured it out. lets just say Ill explain it to you in my next post. Where the whole zine hopefully will be.

Webpage design Idea

Homepage

This is my design at the moment for my website Home page It of course needs loads more work done to it. Firstly the drawing needs to be finished. And I still feel the font needs more work. everything was done i coulouring pencils. and then put together in Photoshop. I opted to keep it clean and simple without too much stuff going on. And I want the butterflies to be animated so they flutter a little and also the viewer can move them around with their mouse. Also when you click on the links or roll your cursor over it I want to to become highlighted.

My six photos

Big Ben

Buckingham palace

Embankment Graffiti

30 St Mary axe/The Guerkin

The London Eye

Tower Bridge

These are my six chosen photos for my zine. Of London landmarks and places of course! I love London, Ive lived here all my life! Im not going to spill the details about what I plan to do with them just yet. ull just have to wait and see.