"Music"

Originally, for my vector exercise, I wanted to do texts that described the arts (Art, writing, and music) however, I realized that the project would have taken me longer and I would have needed to use images for what I had planned. I already had music fonts downloaded, so, I decided to focus on music and try to convey music through just text.

The first piece of text I created was the black one towards the middle. I overlapped two different music fonts and used the create outlines tool along with merge tool in pathfinder. Then I pulled pieces of the text and moved them around creating shapes and distortion. I was going to do the whole piece in black and white but I thought how music is colorful and emotional so I decided to do different colors, basing each text on complementary colors.

For the next step, in the process, I created the instrument pieces on the sides of the main texts. I used a third font for the instruments and used the first two fonts to embellish the instruments; I also added question marks and exclamation points to communicate emotion. I did them in complementary colors as well and I used the warp to tool to slightly twist them. Then I once again merged the pieces and pulled different pieces out.  The final piece I added was the bottom collage of fonts. I had the extra space and I wanted to fill the piece. I used the sprayer to add multiple copies of the same font letters and I also scrunched them.

Fonts used: alpha music man, distracted musician, and wc musica bta.