Tuesday, 9 June 2009

What more do you need to know?

Shakespeare

Here's an image of Shakespeare (though I personally think it looks more like Van Gogh) created using letraset that I made yesterday. I kinda liked the idea of using letraset letters bunched up to created the dark and lighter areas of an image and I chose an image of Shakespeare for obvious reasons. I kinda wish that every letter would have come out perfectly because as you can see quite a few of them have bits missing from them but I realised that it was impossible for every letter to come out perfect because every time you go over 1 letter with another it sticks to the back of the sheet. I suppose this gives it a rustic effect maybe. Overall I'm pretty pleased with it seeing as though it only took a few hours to finish and I would have loved to have made the final image bigger to include the collar he was wearing in the original picture but letraset's pretty expensive so that's probably not the best idea. Luckily I didn't have to go and out and pay £1.70 a sheet (and times that by ten if you're getting it from turners!) for my letraset because my dad used to be a signwriter so he has a wallet full of the stuff from the 70's. That's some vintage letraset right there!

(btw if you click on the first image you'll be able to see the letters a lot better)





Monday, 1 June 2009

Fish Face

btw this wasn't meant to be a masterpiece or anything I was just bored in front of a mirror..