Drop Cap February 2014

[wizard509]

The letter for this month is E



More to follow

[iamtheblues]

Carrying on from where I left off in January, another floral font, Petitfleur, which also has a snowy background.
Bob.

[wizard509]

I like those Bob. The floral and very ornate ones seem to be what I like best.

[wizard509]

Here are a couple more, the second one I'm not sure if I like or not, anyway it was made using two fonts leafy glade and leafy shade plus some other fooling around.

[iamtheblues]

I like the second one, Larry. Perhaps the green/yellow purple combination is a tad cycledelic but it's nice.
I had to use Guardian Egyptian Headline Bold (£, $, €) at some stage during the Drop Cap Challenge. It's extremely pricey at $2,000.00 for the Guardian collection, but I managed to convince myself that $50.00 wasn't too much for the single font. I think the uppercase "E" is a masterpiece.
Here I used just the Contour Tool, set to inner contour at 100 steps. I converted the result to editable shapes and ungrouped it all. I selected the innermost contour and coloured it white. This innermost contour had 4 separate areas, which I individually sliced so that I could apply 4 different feathering settings to get the highlights, to make the result resemble old gold (or caramel, if you prefer).
Bob.

[wizard509]

Good work Bob. Interesting how you went about doing that one. Man O Man that was a pricy font, I hope you get good use out of it and it pays off in the long run. While I have bought a few fonts I always feel guilty because being retired I just do this for fun. Thank you for your comment about mine, I can't help but wonder if the color combinations should have been different particularly the darkest color. Oh well that's how we learn, at least I do, try and try again, some work and some don't work so well.