Preserved Topic: penned letters

my first attempt at pen lettering.


just thought i'd share that with all of you. any ideas on what i can do to it to make it look better?

Once upon a time, I worked on a piece like this. It says "Ozone."



Your letter forms are good for only your first try!

is this what you young folks call, "Tagging"?

Nah..tagging would require an alley, a wall, a ski mask, a down coat, a rucksack, many filthy cans, some deep paranoia, and good quadriceps for the eventual footrace.

butt oooh they're shiny and purty.

mantiS, I'd say ditch the "glow", it seems to kill the sharpness of the letters which looks really sweet without it.
I'd work some mor white highlight in too..I love the sharp unfilled style of your highlight, but maybe a bit of fill white here and there.

Nice.






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Hey nice work, lose the glow, or darken the outer edges for a lil definition as mbridge has done with his. Mebbe '296' with less bevel ? Good stuff anyways =)

DG man you forgot the gloves!

Or you could do a throwie with yer classic sharpie...

Love a good sharpie, but it's shite for brick, or stucco, and no man..I got the gloves right he....


um..actually...nevermind.

~cough~

hmmm not tagging? I smell a new thread....

hey mbridge, u a writer?

Not really, just dabble here and there...

you guys ain't shit.

(edit) additionally; i gots mad skillz. also, i agree with everything that has been said, so far, pertaining to the original topic of this thread. lose the glow. total skillz, yo.(/edit)

[This message has been edited by twItch^ (edited 02-08-2001).]

tight letter forms twitch...never seen anything like 'em!

like i said, mad skillz.



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is that dog's shadow humping it?

and i could do better wit some yayo and a blank creek wall. this was just some foolin around.

Edit: no i couldn't

[This message has been edited by mantiS (edited 02-10-2001).]

Hey I like using the glows, but they do kill the edges. What I usually do is place a second layer, under my type but above the glow, cool? Put a black copy of the text shape there and blur it by .5 or 1 pixels. If the black is too heavy, set the layer to hard light, it's take on the color of the glow (which extendsbeyond it), but the darkness will snap the egdes back for you. That glass is purty, heh.

Your pal, -doc-