Texture Project

My description for this photo was:

Deep purples fade to lavendar and crisp white. 

Rugged green leaves and vines contrast the fragility of the petals.

In total I ended up with 27 layers in Illustrator. I sectioned out the different areas of the photo and labeled them appropriately. The typeface I used was ITC Galliard Std, which is a serif font. I mostly used it's ultra black italic weight, so it would hold the most colour, and the ragged edges would mimic those of the natural leaves and flower. 

I originally had done my texture piece on a close up shot of a banana, but changed to this photo because it had a lot more texture to play with. I really wanted to see how much I could get the recreation to look like the photo. I feel that I could've made it look more like the original image, however, time was an issue. So some of the details on the flower/leaves are not as exact as they could be.

Type Observation

http://artfan24.blogspot.com/2010/09/typography-art.html

 I was absolutely stunned that these two portraits use only typography and negative space to create such realistic representations of these faces. The one of John Lennon feels a bit more free and easy, whereas the detail on Morgan Freeman's face is out of this world.  I was particularly impressed by the creation of his hair and facial hair.

 

I love this poster, it uses typography to get a very powerful message across. 

This one is brilliant!

http://www.designsplanet.com/2010/12/brilliant-type-and-text-artworks/

These were some beautiful examples of typography art I found on individual's blogs (link listed below the images). There was not terribly much information on the artists who created them, but I thought they were all phenomenal.