Hand Type and Illustration

Since the crit I have been working on nerd related illustrations of characters in a simplistic style as is the nature of the initial poster design as well as the overarching concept of the brief. I wanted to do a series of sketchy hand drawn, pen ink and then purely vector merchandise designs, but after doing a few rough drawings of characters I started sketching out rough type ideas to take further as it seemed like a viable option and had some good starting points in terms of further development. 

Admittedly it was a bit late at night, but I was running out of ideas pretty quick and I had not really done much hand type even though I really do enjoy it as it is a much more interesting take on the practice of type.

Admittedly they seem rather weak at the moment, but since I am moving into a new house tomorrow I figured that it would be a good idea to get a sample of work to show what direction Im taking visually.I also think they work quite well as collective images or as separate entities.

So I started messing around with colour and how they might look printed, suffice to say, I hate live trace. Also a good idea would be to develop them further and draw them larger next time to avoid it losing some of its visual impact. 

I will be looking at how to better develop this idea and put it into some form of sellable merchandise.