IN THE SHADOWS RAEANN LANGAS
Jumping right in to making letter forms, thank goodness I didn’t wear a dress! I liked the idea of making a lower-case “r.”
With a little help from Professor Ward, I mastered the lower-case “a.”
The “e” was a little trickier but eventually I settled on making the form with just my arms to get a better curve.
Zoe stepped in the help me create a lower-case “n.”
The drawing begins... I started by printing out the silhouette photos on printer paper and then traces the outline with sharpie. I kept the curves and characteristics of he body in the letter forms initially.
After outlining the letter forms I traced each letter on to a piece of printer paper. At this point I was not thinking about x-height or kerning or anything like that, I was just getting the initial forms down on paper..
The next step was to transfer each letter on to the same piece of paper. I then adjusted kerning and x-height to make the forms appear uniform. I also refined the shapes of the letters while still keeping some humanistic qualities.
After refining my name and scanning it into the computer I began sketching a few ideas for the anatomy chart. I wanted it to look clean and simple. I also liked the idea of using color to makes things pop a bit more.
CAP HEIGHT
X-HEIGHT
EAR
EYE
BASE LINE BOWL
Finally we have the finished layout and anatomy chart.
TERMINAL
SHOULDER