Drop Cap Challenge October 2013

[wizard509]

I would like to continue the Drop Cap challenge by starting with the letter A and assigning a different letter each month until we have done the entire alphabet. By the time we are finished we should have a nice collection of colorful, decorative Drop Caps to use.

So starting this month make a decorative Drop Cap using the letter A. Any font, any style. Design your own letter if you want too.

[angelize]

What a nice idea Larry

And I get to be first! I've included my .xar file too. The background is fairly simple the letter was a hand sketch pencil on paper which I scanned and used the shape tool to lay down the line work in XDP9 colour added with the shape painter tool.

[iamtheblues]

Well done, Larry. That's a great start to the challenge, Frances.
Mine is a font Art Nouveau Initials A (strangely using the upper case D).
The font has been converted to shapes and ungrouped a few times,
Next the Arrange Menu > Break Shapes operation, which leaves an unwanted solid shape over the design which is then removed.
I then coloured the various parts of the design and placed a pale yellow square behind everything and gave it a Petals Brush outline.
Then another square with no fill behind that, with a thick green line with an Intestine stroke shape.
Bob.

[ankhor]

a modern approach

[wizard509]

Well done Frances, Bob, and ankhor. This is getting off to a fantastic start.
@Bob, Thank you for the description on how you did yours, I think many will benefit from that, including me. This is going iin my tips and tricks section.

@ everyone I am saving all these images as we go along. There should be a large collection of TG member created Drop Caps by the time we are done.
Thank you all.

[Acorn]

A large A from AR HERMANN font, into a shape, a few embellishments and a Rectangle with a Bevel.



Acorn

[wizard509]

Is that A tired or loose it's balance?

[Acorn]

It struck me that I wanted a theme for the alphabet so each letter is going to be the start of a chapter in a story that describes the chapter.
No idea what the story is going to be until it finishes.

I think my protagonist is going to be called Arthur.

Acorn

[wizard509]

Themes are good. However, there are times when one theme will not work in all cases. For instance I thought of the vine and leaf theme but I decided I might like more variety. Your idea of using them in a story is sound and I suppose you are going to design your drop caps accordingly. Maybe I misunderstand what you are saying though. At any rate I hope you have fun with these.

[Joce]

Hello,
Here is my A shot of a primer set there awhile.
I also will post the alphabet.