3rd project for a typography class that's kicking my ass! approx. 9x7 ink on 14x17 bristol board. i don't doubt the value of hand-inking, but the prof is pretty adamant that we not use white-out type media. this means that one little accidental slip of the wrist can result in precious hours wasted. i understand the encouragement to build skill, but in the real world, i sincerely doubt a designer would scrap a project after 9 hours of work just because she pulled the pen a 16th of an inch too far.

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it's black and white, but the flash gave the ink's reflection a warm tone. inked by hand with a rapidograph and some brushes. this is the fourth generation of the same image thanks to prof's rules. practice makes perfect, i hope. can't begin to guess how many hours i spent on it. probably should've slept before writing the labels - i think i had been up for 26 hours and the small writing is a bit shaky as a result.

the assignment was to create and label an interesting design of an assigned word while maintaining legibility - can you read it?