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I produced this for my "communicating with words" first year module on the BA(Hons) Graphic Design course at UWE Bristol, England. It pays homage to Ralph Steadman and is a true testament to what you can do on fontstruct, if you’re willing to spend a week in front of a computer in your underpants.
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An absolutely amazing job loboarches ... looking forward to seeing what else you come up with. Gets my 10 :)
I agree with funk_king...lock this baby down!
Are you shure you are using the same FontStruct as I do? I'm going to refresh my cache just in case...
many thanks. Laurie
kix first published this technique here, though to my knowledge I was the first to use it for my homage to Lichtenstein contribution to the first multi-user fontstruction – Bubble Lab. The basic idea: open up the fontstructor in a semi-transparent window with an image you desire to “trace” appearing directly beneath it. Really, it’s just a cunning extrapolation of a common technique used in any number of graphics programs to trace, embellish, or otherwise digitize images from an existing source – usually a scan or digital photograph. There are a number of ways to make your browser window transparent, depending on your OS. Contact me directly if you have any trouble figuring this part out. You will have to come up with a method for scaling your images to the grid, but I imagine you have already gotten used to this with your hand tracing approach.
If you look closely at my “finger pointing” glyph in Bubble Lab, you will see that I extended this technique to its logical extreme of detail. Rather than stick to the “smooth-edged” approach you and kix used – as you said limitating each line to only 4 given angles – I treated the fontstuct grid as a sort of pixel matrix where each partial brick (and all their brickstacked permutations) are considered as grayscale values. Since almost all bricks are available in four rotations, selecting the right bricks in a given position always allows for a “continuous” line – lines which will appear from a certain distance to hold to any given angle. Back in the category of tremendous labor and tedium, one can come up with limitless, even fractal-like textures which define the line quality of a gien work. Intaglio – another old-timey fontstructor – called my first use of the technique “crayoning outside the line”, for instance. :D
Your method has some very intentional and well-considered constraints, so please don’t get me wrong. They are especially apropos to the subject matter from my highly personal perspective. I too was enamored with Steadman’s lettering on the Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas book jacket. So much so that I actually scavenged a cardboard box once containing movie poster for the same so that I could roughly tear out the title (which for some reason was on this cardboard box :) and pin it up as the center piece for the large and eclectic collage which adorned one of my teenage room’s walls. Whenever I see these letters, I can’t help but imagine them in this context – as thick black ink pooling erratically on the surface of rotting corrugated cardboard with the underlying, prison-bar like rib pattern still showing through as they characterize the surface flow. The four–angle grid yields a very similar quality.
How all this triggers such a poignant and timely memory for me! Thank you for sharing these elegantly trashy letters splashed as if on scraps of cardboard, a precise metaphor as any for the decline of the American Empire! 10/10 and I hope all this saves you some time!
laurie
@will.i.ૐ: Thanks for the info about transparent windows - have d/l and installed Transparent Windows already ... now to play with it:)
a big "BRAVO" for your work !
You student give some real inspiration for font creation on fs !
Any plans to do the numbers or more punctuation?
Please say "yes"..
:O
It's a masterpiece. How did you do it? 10/10
You should make a living out of doing that!
Cons : Such fine structure of lines disturb the clarity of characters (i, w, m etc). Also there are no numbers or punctuation included in your font so it fills in with default font (which is then cut in half) This is okay for artwork but isn't good for applied use. 5/10
consider the inferential perpetrator(s), it seems unimportant at this point. Needless to say, I'm always angry, regardless of who the victim is, when I see such deliberate attempt to make our positive ratings a nullity.
Loboarches came to FS recently (along with many talented artists from University of the West of England, Bristol). They infused fresh new ideas, and shared many outstanding works here on FS, raising the standards to new heights, so I think, we ought to
appreciate that. Bat Country was instantly recognised as an exceptional work by many, and within a few weeks it has climbed up on the TP chart to be the No.1. I appeal to you, all who have opinion, but did not vote for this particular fontstruction, to help to restore its position. We could ask FS staff to delete those troll votes, of course. Easy. But I think, it is a good opportunity for members to show their qualities.
I have no more stars left for this work. It is upon you to show your esteem, respect and admiration in numbers at the voting boot.
I can hardly believe... In Fontstruct... That much detail?!
This is the best font I have seen at FontStruct thus far, and I sincerely doubt I will be able to find a better one (unless it comes from you, that is)!
I would say, that this is one of the best projects on FS.
I don't know how long you've been working on this, but creating something like this from scans in serious program, not only would be faster, but would give much, much better effect.
...so it's impressive in kinda' sad way, really...
Chears.
yet again i've got to thank everyone for the comments, it's benn extremly enlightening for me to progress trough my first year of my degree and have such great feedback on somthing i've done. so yet again thanks a bunch.
although sorry to dissapoint (fugitiveglue) but i'm not a girl i'm afraid lol. though i know the name laurie can throw people off.
you dont get all the bricks you want
Use it to your hearts content. All I ask is that you'd send me what you've done with it afterwards as i'd live to see.
All the best
How is this even possible. I'm literally just dumbfounded. 19/10.
One Word Describe This Font.
Masterpiece..
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