TITLE
Autumn

PROJECT
Typographic Art

SIZE
Tabloid (11x17)

MEDIUM
Different lines, fonts, colours, shapes, and gradient effects.

RESOURCES
Font “Throw My Hands Up In The Air” taken from www.dafont.com

INTRODUCTION
My goal was to create a picture of a tree depicting autumn using Adobe Illustrator, made entirely out of typography.

DEVELOPMENT

Using the “Blob Brush Tool”, I drew a series of lines that resembled the shape of a tree.

I took words and phrases from various poems, song lyrics, quotes, and typographic artwork with an autumn theme.

I then used the “Type on a Path Tool” to type the words and phrases I had chosen along the lines that I had already drawn.

I changed the colours of the words to resemble the colours of a tree.

I created a brown and blue gradient background to represent the ground and the sky, and placed it behind the tree.

REFLECTION

To create my artwork, I used techniques such as typing on a line and changing colours to create the shape of a tree. Before I made the tree, I wanted to create the New York City skyline out of typography. This idea did not work because after an entire week of working on the piece, I hadn’t even finished half of it yet. To create the tree, I used letters of different proportions, emphasized certain components by changing their colours, and used a variety of different lines. I used warm colours in the tree and cool colours for the background to create contrast. I added the background to bring everything together and make it all one picture, instead of a collage of words.