I see this kind of effect quite often, and wondered how it's usually created:
Is it as simple as choosing a "fun" irregular font, and then applying different artwork/patterns to each letter, or is there a different process going on?
Thanks!
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Sign up to join this communityI see this kind of effect quite often, and wondered how it's usually created:
Is it as simple as choosing a "fun" irregular font, and then applying different artwork/patterns to each letter, or is there a different process going on?
Thanks!
There's no such thing as "the usual way". One can for ex. let a fun text generator web site generate a bunch of differently decorated texts and clip some good parts of them. One example: https://cooltext.com/Logo-Design-Fun. Or he can draw everything from scratch and insert possibly some available clipart shapes to get richer decoration.
Filling letter shapes with plane filling patterns isn't the way to get this. The letters have fill colors or gradients and in addition there are some patterns which go along the forms of the letters. Plane fill patterns wouldn't respect the forms of the letters.
I would try this in Illustrator:
A technical example with no artistical ideas:
There's one quite ordinary letter and a star in the left. The next is the letter after outlining and distorting it manually with the path editing tools
Gradient fill and red stroke are inserted. A black curve and a line segment are drawn to make the interior pattern.
The star is used as a scatter brush and applied to the interior parts
The scattering is edited manually, an underlying extra image can be seen through the holes of the B. It's actually made with standard Illustrator's decorative fill pattern.
Using a scatter or pattern brush is optional. The filling shapes can as well be inserted one by one manually. Using a brush is only a way to get them more easily placed to go along a certain curve.