~Letter Project Reflection~

1. I was introduced to the letter project by a slideshow of several different designs of the alphabet, or typography. One of the designs which were done with pencil, was one of the main inspirations that made "my lightbulb turn on". After being shown the slideshow, my class was instructed to sketch 20 thumbnail sketches of a particular letter we chose in different styles. In the next class we showed our tablemates the twenty designs and put a star next to two or three designs we favored. This part was not as helpful as the first two steps in the process because the three I chose myself were also chosen so I still had a hard time deciding which one I was going to do. But after this "review" we did two half page rough drafts of our two favorite ones and had our peers critique them. For the most part the process was really helpful because it helped me finish everything on time.

2. My concept came after thinking about words that started with the letter "L". At first it was land but I made it more broad that included more by changing the world to life. I represented this concept of life first by having a waterfall and it's river create the letter "L" and have a very detailed backgroud that surrounded this source of water but durin that process I thought about where our life actually exists and I came to my conclusion that I would draw the earth and the solar system. This represented my concept because our planet is made up of both land and water, the two main sources of life but I forgot about the sun, the most important source. Without it, earth would be too cold to support life so I decided on drawing our solar system to visually represent my concept of life.

3. The most challenging aspect wasmy choice of color for everything I drew. I had to be able to blend different colors and choose the right colors to fill in each planet, star, and rock. After coloring all of that I had to figure out how to color my background and decide on which colors to blend together to make the color of space and put it on the page.

4. Yes, I am actually very satisfied with my project because I felt like I put alot of work into it and for the most part, I got what I wanted out of it. I felt like I blended the colors and chose the right colors to use and when I saw my final product, I was pretty proud of what I accomplished because it looked much better than the pencil drawing I had of it in my head.

5. I guess if I had one thing I could change about my project, I would most likely change the letter I used because the letter "L" seemed to simple of a letter. I'm not saying the design was easy, I'm saying that the letter "L" is a simple 90 degree angle made by two line segments. The letter "Q" or "R" would have a much more challenging aspect of thinking up a concept and then visually representing it.