Hand Lettering: Type Silhouettes

I went over to RIT yesterday to hang out with their Hand Lettering club and give a demo. We talked about screen printing and some of the tools I use for doing ink work. The night before I put together these two initial caps based off of typographic silhouettes. The first one is a majuscule Helvetica P.

And the second one is a majuscule Bodoni Z, negative space.

I love the word "majuscule". For the Helvetica P I used a crow quill pen (Speedball/Hunt 102 nib). For the Bodoni Z I used my Kuretake pen (a brush and ink would have done just fine too).

I enjoyed doing those...much different than other hand lettering I've done recently, like exploding brain typography in this Angry Penguin poster:

I should have some more booger and brain type for you soon though, so stay tuned.

Angry Penguin

Rochester has a lot of nice things to offer. The George Eastman house and Dryden theater, the Little Theaters, multiple public markets, and a man sized homicidal penguin.Yes, you read that correctly. Angry Penguin Productions is a character / clothing brand based in Rochester and I've done a bunch of design work for them over the past year. I haven't mentioned it much before on the interwebs but I really enjoy the work and it's time for me to start sharing it with you!

Check out their website to start with, www.theangrypenguin.com where you'll find some Angry Penguin news (and some webcomics soon too), and when you're finished there you should go see what they have to offer at the Angry Penguin online store: http://www.angrypenguin.bigcartel.com/. If you buy a shirt it means I stay employed! For kicks, tell them Pete sent you if you decide to order something. You can find them on facebook too: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Rochester-NY/Angry-Penguin-Productions/8566865817?ref=ts

Look for them at NYC Comic Con in February too! They're going to be giving away limited edition t-shirts.Get it while it's hot before the Angry Penguin gets you!