Thank's Gia, for the well-structured class! It was easy to follow along and helped me a bunch with creating a more complex lettering layout than usual.

Here's the final piece:

I chose lyrics from the Gravenhurst song "Cities beneath the sea" for this lettering. The soft, pastel colour palette was chosen to fit the mood that the song creates for me.

There is beauty that no-one will see - image 1 - student project

Brain dump and first sketches:

I kept the quick sketches for the brain dump very rough before I worked on out the style and details. That was a great exercise as it gave me several options to choose from!

There is beauty that no-one will see - image 2 - student project

Defining style and details

Once the layout was chosen I slowly worked out the details, which took a lot of patience as well as trial and error. The last image shows the final draft, which was used as a base for the inked and coloured piece.

There is beauty that no-one will see - image 3 - student project

There is beauty that no-one will see - image 5 - student project

Thanks again for the helpful class, Gia!

.. Nina .

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