Sampling - Joby Carter - Testing Mediums

Testing Mediums
 Experimentation of different mediums to create sign written letters on paper

 Watercolour Pencils. Letter drawn out then coloured in using the pencil's. Pencil lines then blended out using water. This medium is very good for creating shadowing as different tones are easily created. It is unsuitable in a real world situation as the pencil wouldn't adhere to a painted gloss surface.

 Watercolour. Letter drawn out and then colour painted in. This medium creates a great solid block colour but again wouldn't adhere to a gloss surface so is no good in practice.

Enamel's. Letter is drawn out and then a number of coats of enamel are applied. This is a medium used in real life and for understandable reasons. It provides a great shine that is durable and adheres to many surfaces such as metal and gloss paintwork.
The aim of these experiments were to learn the basic process of sign writing as far as constructing the letters goes. From here I will attempt to replicate some existing sign writing.