Drop Cap December 2013

**wizard509** · 01 December 2013, 10:14 PM

This month is the letter C

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**angelize** · 02 December 2013, 02:32 AM

Looks like you have been busy Larry. They all look great.

I thought that since we are doing the letter C and it is December...

**wizard509** · 02 December 2013, 10:32 PM

Great idea Frances. Sorry to be late with my reply. I have been so busy that it's been difficult to be here as much as I should. We had a houseful of company to celebrate Thanksgiving, which we did this weekend, not Thursday. Fortunately I had my stuff done early, so all I had to do was post it.

**iamtheblues** · 04 December 2013, 08:28 AM

Christmas isn't as commercialized in this rural part of Spain, except on TV. No signs of it in our nearest town until about a fortnight beforehand, which seems about right to me.We seem to be in a time warp, stuck in the 1950s, which is where this drop cap comes from. The font is a nice slab serif, "Alphabet". Just a rectangle and a circle lopped off the four corners and the contour tool for this one.
Bob.

**wizard509** · 04 December 2013, 04:53 PM

Originally Posted by iamtheblues

Christmas isn't as commercialized in this rural part of Spain
Bob.

Good one Bob!
Boy, Christmas sure is here. They started putting Christmas stuff up here even before Thanksgiving, actually shortly after Halloween. I know Christmas is the biggest time of year for the stores, but, give me a break, that behavior is relegating Thanksgiving to a holiday of no importance. Do you celebrate Thanksgiving in Spain? I know we do, and Canada does, but Australia does not.

**iamtheblues** · 07 December 2013, 10:34 AM

Hi Larry,
As far as I know, Thanksgiving isn't celebrated here. Christmas is celebrated, but not to the extent it is in the UK and USA. It shares equal importance with Epiphany (12th. Night on the 6th of January) which is the festival of the Three Kings, a time when the children receive presents and usually there are parades and floats where they get sweets (candy). It's a magical time, but not commercialized.

The attached Drop Cap is in the grunge style, using the Veneer 2 font (not free) but is occasionally available at the link for $9 which is a great deal, as the font family comes in lots of flavours.

The design was more difficult to achieve than it may look, as adding the outer contours and the frame took some fiddling to get the overall "stamp" effect, so that the various elements all had similar attributes.
The outer frame also required the eraser tool to finish it off.
Bob.

**zaphodeist** · 07 December 2013, 11:20 AM

Do you celebrate Thanksgiving in Spain? I know we do, and Canada does, but Australia does not.

Nor do we celebrate it here. The first harvest in the "New World" is not often on the minds of folk not in the "New World"

**wizard509** · 07 December 2013, 02:37 PM

Thanks for the info guys.
@ Bob you did a great job with that drop cap. I own that font family too. It's a nice looking font but so far I haven't had occasion to use it. It's interesting how you did the outer contours.

**iamtheblues** · 08 December 2013, 02:08 PM

This one was made using the inner contour tool again, and then copying it to the clipboard.
Next I used the Extrusion Tool to create a head-on 3D with maximum perspective,
which gave me a visual template of the result I was looking for.
I redrew the extruded parts, deleted the original 3D, then pasted in place the contour work.
This meant that I was left with a pure vector result, which reminded me of the artwork often seen
on fairground rides. Font used: LHF Conclave Rounded.
Bob.