Alphabet Soup 10 letters

Too start off with I generated a range of different ideas for the world layer, which was the one I was given.

There was a few I really liked, I found this task hard, not having thought much into creating work since college It was a nice kick to getting back into things and getting back into the thought process, I didn't think many of the ideas were that strong but I did feel they conveyed the word I was trying to illustrate in more of less all of them in one form or another. 

One of my first was in laying out the layers that make up the letter H, I really like the shape of the letter. It's one of my favourites. Anyway, I thought of layer like this, like a exploding diagram they use for mechanical parts. I created the H firstly using a isometric grid, using the basis of the sketch I did to work from. 

I then thought of how to abstract this so I tried to play about with the placement of the layers and how best it would be to show that it's been exploded, layered etc. It took a life of it's own here.

I did like the idea of just having it like a drop shadow, was thinking like how a stencil is separate layers, in that it creates a shadow. I don't think I was correctly thinking this through, it was a sugar rush thought. Sitting back and looking it just seems like a drop shadow or something like that, it's not really the successful.

I then thought of layering up the H, using the stencil for an idea, but also some escher in there was well. Apart from here, the H's didn't really meet and it was just a bit of a mess really. It didn't work. 

Back to the shadow idea from the H, I was playing about here with the 3d tool in illustrator, having a play about to see what I could do. Nothing exciting.

Now this N was something I did like, I was thinking along the lines of like the royal mail logo I saw on the way to uni, it's got a stripe through the middle. I was thinking how can I make it layered, this is seen in my sketches, but here I trying to recreate it perfectly. I wanted each section to be layered, while each bit been layered in stripes too. The meaning is lost though thought the clutter and comes off more of a race-car branding.

This one was accidental, the multiple D's, found the specified steps tool and created a tonne of capital D's, I t seemed really cool at the time but I decided against it. Felt a bit too, shoddy. I thought it'd be irritating to replicate too.

I really liked this idea of the layered different typefaces, I eventually changed all of these into D's and this became a merge of the above, the result shown at the bottom. I thought this one was pretty obvious, because of that it was successful.

I really liked the idea of layers through multiple planes, If a T was split between two, how would they be connected. I wanted to try and show that but putting it on a angle, and creating that connection, from the front it'd look like a normal T but from the side it's actually spread across 2 layers and connected by one. I thought it was a relatively cool idea but I don't think it came out so successful as I had thought it might have.

Rather on the same branch. I wanted to see what a e would be like as maybe something like paper. You couldn't connect it if it was a folded piece. Like a highway, it'd overlap. Create a layer above. I saw it like a car-park, like when you drive up and over around the circle road bits, I really love going up them. Anyway that was what I thought thinking.

And last, the final hand drawn results - Talked more about in my PPP blog.