This month, I did a hand-lettering illustration for Discorder magazine for their article and promotion for Sizzleteen Records, a new local record label and their launch party. I hadn't done a lot of hand-lettering, but I have been dabbling in it for fun lately. After discovering Jessica Hische, an amazing illustrator, letterer, and designer, I was inspired to experiment with some hand-lettering of my own (Here's an attempt with a recent illustration I did and you can also see it throughout my website www.priscillayu.com). I have never taken a typography course, and have an elementary understanding of type hierarchy and history, but to me, hand-lettering kind of breaks the rules in a beautiful way that may make traditional typographers cringe. I hand-lettering that is illustrative, figurative, embellished, and sometimes really ugly.
So ugly, it's beautiful.
Recently through learning about "Beauty is Embarrassing" -- a documentary on Wayne White, I realized that I had seen Wayne White's his word paintings before on art blogs before. They are beautiful, and visually stimulating. You can literally feel your eyes working when you're looking at them. Their complexity in translation of three-dimensional form into two-dimensional paintings that create an optical illusion especially appeal to my tastes!
Anyway, below are two iterations that I also sent into the art director at Discorder Magazine, before he chose the final version that is published.
