One of my hush hush projects is in the final stages and with permission from the author, Kelly Morrison Handerhan, I thought I'd give you a sneak peek by showing you how I designed the illustrated title type.
I could've used type that's available on my computer for commercial usage But the title of this project is very evocative,
ONCE UPON A MIDNIGHT. OOH this title is begging for some special treatment. So I begin to doodle and refine. And Hem and haw. Type Style - small caps, all caps, upper and lower case? Should I add crows? Will they read as crows or just look like blobs?
Decided against crows - too busy. Went with All Caps as I felt the small caps had too much white space between the lines and lowercase letters didn't seem to work as well. Refined the sketch. Enlarged sketch, transferred to paper via my lightbox and then the inking begins. I use a rapidiograph pen for inking and scan.
Voila - here it is in place on the wrap-around cover art.
Once Upon a Midnight is about
Andy the Pug on a midnight romp. We just loaded this book project to
CreateSpace.com and we can't wait until it's in the marketplace.
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Once Upon A Midnight Book Cover art for a story by Kelly Morrison Handerhan
with cover and interior pages illustrated by Diana Ting Delosh.
Copyrighted material!!!!
For info about Andy please see www.facebook.com/andy.pug.9
You may Now order Once Upon A Midnight on Amazon |
4 comments:
Fascinating to see your lettering evolve and to hear the reasoning behind it!
It's worked out really well and almost, if only I had more time, inspired me to have a go myself!
Sounds like a super book!
HI Judy, Thanks for commenting. I know if we only had more time.
Love seeing your process! I really like the way you refined the lettering. Very nicely done!
Thanks Liz.
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