Letter project

My first step in the process of creating my letter was the brainstorm. I chose the letter "y" just because I like it's shape, but when I made a thought-web, there weren't many nouns that started with y. So instead I thought about how the letter sounded and eventually realized that "why" spells out "y" and is also a word. And not only is it a word, but one of the most important questions ever, or something. So I came up with a design of a y with a "wh" inside the curl of it. 

 I liked the shape of the "y," but I decided that it was too confusing to include more than one letter in a project that was about making one, so with my next draft I attempted to make the "wh" more subtle by putting it inside the y. I like the idea of having the letters inside the y, but I didn't like their shape or the colors I had used.

 I finally moved on to my final draft, and it became the most challenging part of the process. I prefer my artwork to be simple and well executed, but that was really hard to achieve with magic marker and sharpie. I worked very carefully in trying to keep the exact same y shape I had in my draft while also making it larger. That took a lot of math and ruler lines to do so, but I ended up replicating the shape pretty well.

However I really don't like the w. I made the h really neat and I think it looks great, but that makes the w look really sloppy in comparison. Although looking back, I feel that I may have had more room to experiment with colors if I used my first draft idea, and so if I could redo the project I would just use that idea. That way could use different colors for the w and h instead of just black. I really like experimenting with different color combinations in my artwork, and that is something didn't really get to do with my final idea. But overall I think I did a really good job of the shape of the y, and I am also proud of my concept.