Week Two

This week was all about mapping out a font and starting to work on the ideation of making a font. First was the development of ideas, I had to think through some of the ideas that I had. First I decided to make a list of some of the things that I enjoyed.
List of Ideas

1. Cats
2. Cacti
3. Desserts
4. Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
5. Cookies
6. Monsters

Once I made this list the next task was to narrow in on three of those choices and begin developing them into letters. 

Cacti-  The reason I decided to go with a design of cacti for one of my top three is that I love plants, especially succulents. I find myself constantly shopping for them and looking around for new ones all the time.  

Desserts- The second one I decided to develop is desserts. Now anyone that knows me knows I have a passion for baking. I'm always making something new and having all my friends try it out. 

Fresh Prince- Now I have an obsession with the 90's and anything that had to do with graffiti. So it makes perfect sense that I decided to go with the fresh prince as one of my fonts. 

After drawing out those three options I decided to go with desserts. The main reason I went with desserts is to have a more individual font that had a bunch of different textures. I was thinking about all the colors and all the different deserts I could design. Now immediately while drawing this out I found a problem. If this was going to be in black and white how would I show all the different tones and variations in the letters?  So After talking to professor Mata, I scratched this idea. 






I then fell back on my cacti idea and I'm not sure how I'm feeling about it. I decided to go with a more organic shape to show the different bends and curves the plant can have naturally, but at this point, im just afraid my font looks like a bunch of pickles.