Week 12: Drop Shadows and Serifs
SEE THINK WONDER
What do you see in the picture? What do you think is happening and what was the artist trying to tell you with this picture? What does this picture make you wonder about?
Tim Noble and Sue Webster - Wild Mood Swings, 2009. Photo via thisismarvelous.com
Assignment
Apply the prior knowledge you have about both shadows and light sources, and drawing bubble letters to create your a sign with your name in drop shadow bubble letters. Create another version of your name with serif bubble letters. To extend the project create another name that has both serifs and a drop shadow.
Drawing Different Fonts (serifs)
Drawing Drop Shadows
Vocabulary
Drop shadow is a visual effect consisting of a drawing element which looks like the shadow of an object, giving the impression that the object is raised above the objects behind it.
serif a slight projection finishing off a stroke of a letter in certain typefaces. Serifs increase both the readability and reading speed of long passages of text because they help the eye travel across a line, especially if lines are long or have relatively open word spacing.
Typeface is the design of lettering[1] that can include variations, such as extra bold, bold, regular, light, italic, condensed, extended, etc. Each of these variations of the typeface is a font.
Font was a particular size, weight and style of a typeface ( The most expensive font in the world is JHA Bodoni Ritalic and it costs almost $5000
(https://medium.com/@msilvertant/the-most-expensive-typefaces-in-the-world-d025923084f0)
Resources
Martha Cooper is an American photojournalist born in the 1940s in Baltimore, Maryland. She worked as a staff photographer for the New York Post during the 1970s.[2] She is best known for documenting the New York City graffiti scene of the 1970s and 1980s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Cooper
Graffiti Diplomacy http://www.juxtapost.com/site/permlink/76ee8ebd3f8b6a620de11f6b738ceebd/postsites/graffitidiplomacy_com/
Why This Project