Signage

Lately, I've been working on a sign for Hub-Bub, the hub city's cultural edge. The awesome folks up there gave me creative license, just saying they wanted hand-lettering. It was such a fun project! I learned a lot about materials and technique and I can't wait to do this again.

I didn't take a "before" picture, but you can see the blue that it was. There were sticker letters on it and these tan painted lines. Getting the sticker letters off took awhile and the lines never quite came up.

The folks at Hub-Bub suggested I go with cyan or orange. I worked with cyan a lot on a mural recently and chose orange instead because, well, Clemson, of course.

I used an old dinosaur projector to set my guides. It was really, really cold in the studio! If you look there on the right hand side, you can see some of Cesar Maxit's stencils. :)

Painting and painting and painting! My hand is so much steadier with all this practice. 

Here is the finished piece. This is a stupid cell phone picture so the color is weird; It's more orange than this in real life. I love how it looks!

Another Project Update

I got some really helpful feedback from a classmate and made the following changes. There are still a couple things I need to work on, but here's my progress.

Project Update

So I've cleaned up my lettering and added some color. You can see what it might look like on a t-shirt or as a bumper sticker. But I think the best application is as a poster, which will be available in our "at cost" info shop when the band plays shows.

What do you think? Want one?

Hand Lettering

I'm taking a Skillshare class on hand lettering and I'm two lessons in. It's really great stuff and I'm totally inspired. Well, today I got our scanner working so I can show you what I'm doing.

My project is a poster/t-shirt design to raise awareness and create dialogue about the School of the Americas, a combat training school for Latin American soldiers located at Fort Benning, GA. Please read more about this "School of Assassins" here.

This is my design so far. Got a long way to go, but I am happy with my progress. Feedback?