Jeff Jones

Backstory

The typographic portrait demonstrates both my illustration skills along with showing my expertise in working with type and manipulating it to create shapes. The assignment was to select a photo of a famous person, making any needed adjustments to it in Photoshop to create contrast n the image; then import it into Illustrator and use the Live Trace feature to create a vector “base” to work from. Once the base was in place, I was to select a typeface and typeset words, titles of work, and quotes or lyrics to form the shapes that made up the image. Using a serif typeface (Louvette) with multiple weights, I was able to create text along paths that I had drawn with the pen tool and also use the mesh tool to bend and warp the type when necessary to build the shapes. Initially I had used only black and shades of gray to provide the shading, but I decided to add gold and deep brown to better represent the guitar in the image.