So for my desktop publishing project, we have to create an image using words and text only. for example, my friend is doing the superman logo and filling the image up with lyrics from songs and quotes in the comic book etc. I need some help! i really have no idea and i’m stumped. here are some examples of image made of words:
http://www.johnbr.com/.a/6a00d83451b84369e201053516b639970b-800wi
http://saintandie.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/25-examples-of-inspirational-text-art.jpg
i was thinking of doing a question mark but i don’t know what to fill the image up with =/
and the main part of this is skewing the text, font, resizing, color, and masking images onto the text as well, maybe you have ideas on that part?
thanks so much!
Try typing your huge question mark in Illustrator, then using Create Outlines to make it a path and changing both stroke and fill to nothing. Use Offset Path with small negative values to make several thinner question marks, one inside the other. With the Type on a Path tool, run your chosen words around each loop and resize the type to nest properly. (It will probably look best with a question mark drawn from a bold, rounded font.) That way you won’t have to build it brick-by-brick.
July 23rd, 2010 at 8:29 am
Try typing your huge question mark in Illustrator, then using Create Outlines to make it a path and changing both stroke and fill to nothing. Use Offset Path with small negative values to make several thinner question marks, one inside the other. With the Type on a Path tool, run your chosen words around each loop and resize the type to nest properly. (It will probably look best with a question mark drawn from a bold, rounded font.) That way you won’t have to build it brick-by-brick.
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