hey i love your soul [vector exercise 1]

I've never actually made anything with Illustrator before. I've opened up the program a few times, ogled the pretty tools, and I definitely appreciate a lot of vector art, but I've never used it for creation before.

That said, I worked on a little project to get comfortable with the layers and editing options before launching into the class. I picked a phrase to repeat and play with.

This is obviously not all that eye-catching. I'll probably play with the idea some more in some spare time, using the repetition of a phrase....more attractively.

I love typography. Check below for the ACTUAL exercise.

Alright. So, the assigned exercise was to look at the aesthetic of letters themselves. I picked "j" and "w" in a handwritten lowercase. They're two of the letters that are most closely related to other (non-Roman) alphabets, which means that if you tweak 'em around a bit, they get harder to recognise immediately. I might re-do the exercise before next class, but for now, I'm happy.

I dunno. I know this seems really simplistic, which is why I might re-do this. But, I find that most letters and fonts are pretty elegant - that's what typography's all about, after all. I rotated the 'w' so that it more closely aligned with the angle of the staff of the 'j,' and then rotated the whole canvas in hopes of abstracting the letters, so the viewer could just focus on their shape.