This was a recent project from my typography class. I had to find an "iconic" image and recreate/trace it as a grayscale image using only letters and numbers of from one font (Adobe Garamond Pro, in my case). Here's what I chose to recreate:

It was a truly tedious task, since there are literally thousands of individual text boxes in the main illustrator file. It's too bad I didn't have time to add the baron's arm or the brick texture in the letters. Oh well. I'm still pretty satisfied.

EDIT: Thank you, Iceheart, for fixing the picture height restrictions. My image has been updated to its max limits.

looks really nice

never seen such a 'font method'

Wow, all that out of 10 characters? The 6/9s on the arms don't look right though, makes him look like he's got some kind of zombie flesh-eating disease, I guess it's supposed to be hair or beads of sweat or general "shading", but it looks like acne to me. Most the curves are overlapping 1s right? Clever.

sweet.

Reminds me of the stamp art people made in mario paint!

evilartist wrote:

Note to the mods: Why can't my images be taller than 640 pixels?? Sure, it's not good to make them wider than 640, but come on! :roll:

I *think* I changed the height limit to 2048 now, but kept the width limit.

LDAsh wrote:

Wow, all that out of 10 characters? The 6/9s on the arms don't look right though, makes him look like he's got some kind of zombie flesh-eating disease, I guess it's supposed to be hair or beads of sweat or general "shading", but it looks like acne to me. Most the curves are overlapping 1s right? Clever.

They're all 6s, and I use them because they're good for curved edges and an overall "organic" feel. Call them acne, hair, or a skin disease. I just find them useful for this particular function.

iceheart wrote:

evilartist wrote:

Note to the mods: Why can't my images be taller than 640 pixels?? Sure, it's not good to make them wider than 640, but come on! :roll:

I *think* I changed the height limit to 2048 now, but kept the width limit.

Nope, still no good. Thanks for helping, though. Now that I think about it, making it 640 pixels wide won't really make a difference, so I shouldn't be picky. I appreciate the assistance though.

I stabbed the control panel again and I am now reasonably certain that I altered the correct value.

Thanks for the help. I went ahead and altered the image.

you did it wrong!!! the art has to be something that can come from typing.

Nice work, very nice details on the doom letters as well!

I'm very impressed. And very happy that I am not the one taking the course as that would have been the peak of boring for me. :p

ViPr wrote:

you did it wrong!!! the art has to be something that can come from typing.

What do you mean?

Kristus wrote:

I'm very impressed. And very happy that I am not the one taking the course as that would have been the peak of boring for me. :p

I'll admit, normal people would have gone insane about halfway through this picture. Most students choose an easier picture. I deliberately choose hard stuff like this just to challenge myself, and because the source pic is infinitely awesome.

Just a bit of trivia: the lines of text on the muzzle flash, if you look closely, are a repeat of the letters "SRSRSRSR". They stand for "staccato rip" as in the sound effect.

what i mean is that the picture is supposed to be something that can be made by typing into wordpad or some document writing program.

ViPr wrote:

what i mean is that the picture is supposed to be something that can be made by typing into wordpad or some document writing program.

And I suppose you attend the same school so you know the details of the assignment?

I thought it was clear by now, that ViPr knows everything. :p

ascii art would of made more sense for the project. Stamping a few select characters can pull off amazing results pretty easily. I made pong in a video editor with just a few characters.

In theory, the image could be traced with vectors in gimp/p-shop, then just draw with a character as the brush for the fonts vs the way it was done for this image. Results would of been near identical.

ViPr wrote:

what i mean is that the picture is supposed to be something that can be made by typing into wordpad or some document writing program.

Ah, I getcha. Unfortunately, ascii images won't fly in this class. The general outline of this course is to use type as an artform. While, no doubt, detailed ascii images can look great, the stuff we have to make are like those highly decorated ad posters with the text warping and rotating to fit within an artistic theme--similar to what graphic designers do. Besides, the image has to be grayscale. That means I would have to manipulate the kerning and leading (horizontal spacing and vertical spacing, respectively) to pull of the illusion of darker values, which I don't think Notepad or Wordpad can do (or can it?).

The Happy Friar wrote:

In theory, the image could be traced with vectors in gimp/p-shop, then just draw with a character as the brush for the fonts vs the way it was done for this image. Results would of been near identical.

Does applying a character as a brush in photoshop result in generating actual, scaleable text windows? Or will the letters become static, pixel-based images that cannot get bigger?

T I G H T ! ! !

evilartist wrote:

Does applying a character as a brush in photoshop result in generating actual, scaleable text windows? Or will the letters become static, pixel-based images that cannot get bigger?

Nah, a brush will always come out rasterized in Photoshop. Illustrator might got something for this though.

"WICKED SICK!" - Unreal 2004 Announcer

That is pretty kewl, good work!

This was a recent project from my typography class. I had to find an "iconic" image and recreate/trace it as a grayscale image using only letters and numbers of from one font (Adobe Garamond Pro, in my case). Here's what I chose to recreate:

It was a truly tedious task, since there are literally thousands of individual text boxes in the main illustrator file. It's too bad I didn't have time to add the baron's arm or the brick texture in the letters. Oh well. I'm still pretty satisfied.

EDIT: Thank you, Iceheart, for fixing the picture height restrictions. My image has been updated to its max limits.

looks really nice

never seen such a 'font method'

Wow, all that out of 10 characters? The 6/9s on the arms don't look right though, makes him look like he's got some kind of zombie flesh-eating disease, I guess it's supposed to be hair or beads of sweat or general "shading", but it looks like acne to me. Most the curves are overlapping 1s right? Clever.

sweet.

Reminds me of the stamp art people made in mario paint!

evilartist wrote:

Note to the mods: Why can't my images be taller than 640 pixels?? Sure, it's not good to make them wider than 640, but come on! :roll:

I *think* I changed the height limit to 2048 now, but kept the width limit.

LDAsh wrote:

Wow, all that out of 10 characters? The 6/9s on the arms don't look right though, makes him look like he's got some kind of zombie flesh-eating disease, I guess it's supposed to be hair or beads of sweat or general "shading", but it looks like acne to me. Most the curves are overlapping 1s right? Clever.

They're all 6s, and I use them because they're good for curved edges and an overall "organic" feel. Call them acne, hair, or a skin disease. I just find them useful for this particular function.

iceheart wrote:

evilartist wrote:

Note to the mods: Why can't my images be taller than 640 pixels?? Sure, it's not good to make them wider than 640, but come on! :roll:

I *think* I changed the height limit to 2048 now, but kept the width limit.

Nope, still no good. Thanks for helping, though. Now that I think about it, making it 640 pixels wide won't really make a difference, so I shouldn't be picky. I appreciate the assistance though.

I stabbed the control panel again and I am now reasonably certain that I altered the correct value.

Thanks for the help. I went ahead and altered the image.

you did it wrong!!! the art has to be something that can come from typing.

Nice work, very nice details on the doom letters as well!

I'm very impressed. And very happy that I am not the one taking the course as that would have been the peak of boring for me. :p

ViPr wrote:

you did it wrong!!! the art has to be something that can come from typing.

What do you mean?

Kristus wrote:

I'm very impressed. And very happy that I am not the one taking the course as that would have been the peak of boring for me. :p

I'll admit, normal people would have gone insane about halfway through this picture. Most students choose an easier picture. I deliberately choose hard stuff like this just to challenge myself, and because the source pic is infinitely awesome.

Just a bit of trivia: the lines of text on the muzzle flash, if you look closely, are a repeat of the letters "SRSRSRSR". They stand for "staccato rip" as in the sound effect.

what i mean is that the picture is supposed to be something that can be made by typing into wordpad or some document writing program.

ViPr wrote:

what i mean is that the picture is supposed to be something that can be made by typing into wordpad or some document writing program.

And I suppose you attend the same school so you know the details of the assignment?

I thought it was clear by now, that ViPr knows everything. :p

ascii art would of made more sense for the project. Stamping a few select characters can pull off amazing results pretty easily. I made pong in a video editor with just a few characters.

In theory, the image could be traced with vectors in gimp/p-shop, then just draw with a character as the brush for the fonts vs the way it was done for this image. Results would of been near identical.

ViPr wrote:

what i mean is that the picture is supposed to be something that can be made by typing into wordpad or some document writing program.

Ah, I getcha. Unfortunately, ascii images won't fly in this class. The general outline of this course is to use type as an artform. While, no doubt, detailed ascii images can look great, the stuff we have to make are like those highly decorated ad posters with the text warping and rotating to fit within an artistic theme--similar to what graphic designers do. Besides, the image has to be grayscale. That means I would have to manipulate the kerning and leading (horizontal spacing and vertical spacing, respectively) to pull of the illusion of darker values, which I don't think Notepad or Wordpad can do (or can it?).

The Happy Friar wrote:

In theory, the image could be traced with vectors in gimp/p-shop, then just draw with a character as the brush for the fonts vs the way it was done for this image. Results would of been near identical.

Does applying a character as a brush in photoshop result in generating actual, scaleable text windows? Or will the letters become static, pixel-based images that cannot get bigger?

T I G H T ! ! !

evilartist wrote:

Does applying a character as a brush in photoshop result in generating actual, scaleable text windows? Or will the letters become static, pixel-based images that cannot get bigger?

Nah, a brush will always come out rasterized in Photoshop. Illustrator might got something for this though.

"WICKED SICK!" - Unreal 2004 Announcer

That is pretty kewl, good work!