TYPEFACE DRAWING

Drawing with Type

The activity was to find a nursery rhyme and to draw an illustration based on using text only.

I chose:

Kookaburra Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree; Merry, merry king of the bush is he. Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh, Kookaburra, Gay your life must be! (alternate: Save some gum for me!)

Origin “Kookaburra” was written in 1932 by Australian music teacher, Marion Sinclair, who sold the song’s rights after winning a music competition in Victoria, Australia in 1934. The kookaburra of the rhyme is a native Australian kingfisher (bird), whose call sounds very similar to human laughter.

http://groovekidnation.com/resources/top_rhymes/kookaburra.html

I drew a rough sketch of a kookaburra on paper first then opened up Photoshop and imported a black and white scan at 300 Dots per inch resolution. I then cropped and saved it as a JPEG image. I then created a new document in Illustrator and placed the image inside.With the image in illustrator a made it as template in its layer.I created another layer and named it tracing. I selected the Pen Tool and traced around the image, when I finished tracing,  I duplicated  the artwork layer, so that I would have a back up of the artwork, as once you put type on a path, you cannot convert back! I then created another layer and name it Text where I copied and pasted the nursery rhyme words.From there I then chose the Type on a path Tool and placed the cursor on the image and started copying and pasting each line of the nursery rhyme into and changing the fonts with different sizes to suit.

HAPPY KOOKABURRA