More Art with Words

This week I have to show off something a friend of mine made.  I was working on a project for ART 223 with the aid of a friend when he brought out his sketchbook to show me some of his drawings.  He had some hand-drawn text that I thought was very nice and I wanted to use it as my example this week.  He gave me permission.

"Faith" drawn by Roger Hills

This example is actually a crop of a larger part that was a name for a possible tatoo design.  After running it through WhatTheFont, I could find NOTHING that even remotely came close to this design.  I really like this particular image because it's very old-fashioned while still being very creative and artistically beautiful.  

"Jennie with the e cropped out" Drawn by Roger Hills

I tried running this one through What The Font and it didn't even register the characters correctly.  So I'm not sure if there is a similar font out there somewhere.  I'll have to do a bit more research.  However, this one reminds me a lot of stained glass and I really like it a lot.

Both of these examples could really only be used for artistic/display purposes as the readability on them is somewhat difficult.

Many thanks to Roger for allowing me to use his work this week.

Word Art - (Not the Microsoft version)

In a slight departure of the usual anaylisys of type I find when I'm out and about, I bring you something a friend shared with me on facebook today.

This is a picture called "Cat and Mouse" by Margaret Shepherd.  I found the image on Neatorama which was linked by my friend.  This image uses calligraphy to form the words cat and mouse into their respective animal forms.  It's a very neat image and I thought it should be shared.