- ✔ Attentively examine the four provided letters (two Rs and two ampersands) and look very carefully at how the curves and straight lines intersect with the gridded background.
- ✔ Rough in the letterform one grid unit at a time. Then, stop and look at the overall drawing. It's difficult to do perfectly at first. Look for odd proportions, curves that don't flow smoothly, awkward angles, and then touch up the details.
- ✔ Once you're satisfied, use a fine-tipped black pen to finalize the outline of the letter you've drawn. Then, most importantly, fill in the letterform solid black with a broad-tipped black pen, making sure you do not go beyond the black outline. We do this because it's much easier to appreciate the positive/negative forms of a solid, filled-in letterform rather than an outlined form.
- ✔ Repeat the process for each of the four supplied letters. Remember that the four final letters need to be crisp, clean, filled-in in black, and drawn as accurately possible. This exercise demonstrates your talent as a draftsperson and your powers of observation, both of which are necessary in typography. Though you may not become a designer of typefaces, understanding the intricacies of type anatomy makes you a better graphic designer.
- ✔ Scan or take a digital photograph of your results. Save your work as a PDF or JPEG file.
- ✔ Include with your submission a brief description of the visual differences between the letterforms.
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