Happy New Year!

I wish all of you lovely people a very happy new year. I have a feeling it's going to be a great one! <3

xoxo Alex

Western Christmas

Haha, I don't know what got into to me. Casually catching up on some christmas cards. Now I just need to find someone who likes westerns to send this to :O

xoxo Alex

Songbook

One of my favorite things in the world is illustrating the first page of cool notebooks according to their future purpose. These personalized notebooks make awesome and useful presents.
Here I actually did one for me :) The right is empty so it can be packed with song titles, any proposals for the first one? ;)

Good night!
xoxo Alex

Fancy Letters

Still palying around with the Schiller Book :D So cool! At the moment I'm still simply copying stuff, but soon I want to take it to the next lever and create my own stuff in this style...;)

xoxo Alex

Lettering

I found the most wonderful book today. It's the first part of a full edition of all Schiller's Works. There are some amazing illustrations that I've found in it and probably a lot more that I haven't discovered yet. The lettering is amazing as well. The capitals at the beginning of each work or chapter I copied, because it was so fascinating..:)

Apologies for the pencil remnants by the way, that's me being godawfully lazy ;)
xoxo Alex

Finished initials

Hey everyone! Technical difficulties (no seriously! XD) made this post so late today-sorry!

Anyway, enjoy the finished initials! I really like this piece, it's completly from imagination and I think the whole outline brought the whole thing together really well at the end.

And as you can see, this is actually a really cool scan and not a photo, thanks again!
xoxo Alex

Typography Series-Trying out fonts

So, judging by the amount of websites dedicated to this topic, I just discovered something that is really popular and cool, but for some reason I had no clue about before.
And those are free fonts on the internet... I just stumbled upon them basically and am totally in looove with the concept. You can get some here (and loads of other places, but this one was the one I thought was the coolest ;) )
So then I got a little carried away today. Here are the results.

(Have the courage to use your own common sense)

(If the facts don't fit to the theory, change the facts.)

Anyways-I have some drawings for you again tomorrow ;)

xoxo Alex

Typography/Lettering Series -Shakespeare

I've always been in love with well crafted graffiti. If it is well made, it is such an awesome way to embelish walls/trucks/trains or school worksheets for that matter. There is a real art behind it, that I've always wanted to actually try it out, but haven't done yet (that might be a project for the future!-what do you think? :D ). As I'm doing lettering at the moment,  I had to include some graffiti style stuff, and believe it or not, the 'Shakespeare' is actually my own writing! XD It took me quite a few inspiration and reference pictures but I'm quite pleased with the result.
I did the shape first by hand, and then added colorusing a filter in photoshop later..

The quote is from The Merchant of Venice by the way.
xoxo Alex

Typography Series: Physics Quote

So I don't know, some of you might have noticed thta I like Physics. Today's quote is a physics quote. But an awesome :D It is by Einstein and even though I know, usually this blog is in English, I can't quote from Einstein in English. That would be weird. But the quote means something like 'When talking to a girl, 2 hours seem like a minute. When you sit on a hot oven for one minute, it seems like 2 hours. That's relativity.'
So here it is :D I did most of it with a 'coca cola font' which I found on the web. It is pretty cool actually, the only problem is, it can't to some German letters like the ä or the ß for example... so I had to improvise on those XD I think the dots on the 'a's worked pretty well, but the 'ß' was a fail. ah, well.

I should put this on a T-shirt and then wear it to my Physics exams. That would be pretty awesum! Aren't you proud how early I am today by the way?
xoxo Alex

Typography/Lettering Series-Adventure is not outside man

Sooo after yesterdays struggle I finally managed to write this quote. It is a lot simpler and different from what I had planned, but for some reason I still like it. After yesterdays experience, it became a lot clearer to me, why people study this stuff. It looks so simple, but I can promise you there is an incredible amount of work behind these kind of writings.
If you want to catch up on some reading about typography, I found some awesome articles, here and here. As I will be carrying on with research throughout this series, I'll be posting some links to helpful rescourses. I'm really actually starting to like this kind of creative work. It takes quite a bit of skill with technology, creativity and as we saw yesterday-a lot of endurance because at least for me it is pretty frustrating sometimes...

So anyway-enjoy the rest of your day! 

xoxo Alex

Adventure is not outside man

You won't believe me how long I sat trying to figure out this f*$/&ing quote. So first I did it on the computer. Then I wrote this. Then I converted it to digitally change it. Then I started over digitally again. And then I looked at my watch. GRR so frustrated right now.

I'll try again tomorrow. 

xoxo Alex

Typography Series-Always remember that you are unique!

Hi!
So after being told about 4 times today, that my handwriting was well, undecipherable, I decided that I needed to do something about that. That's how the typography series was born :D I'll be using mixed media for this series, so stuff that I wrote on the computer combined with handwritten parts aaaand will see how it goes!

I decided I would practise using inspirational quotes I like so here's the first one my Margaret Mead.
The middle part I did on paper and then photoshopped it and as you probably noticed, the top and bottom lines are both digitally written.
If you have any tips for me, or stuff that you think I should know or do please leave a comment below :D I'm always happy when people comment ;)

xoxo Alex