Hi Skillshare! My name is Christopher Vinca, or better known as @handletteredlogos on the inter-webs/instagram.

First off I'd like to say thank you to Martina for sharing your process. So far I've taken 40 classes on skillshare, yet this will be my first project. I was inspired by your techniques in this course and your approach to drawing scripts, and found myself implementing them into my own process. With that said, here's my project: (I hope you all enjoy!)

Aslan: The Great Lion - image 1 - student project

The idea behind choosing the name Aslan came from a masterpiece Jake Weidmann just finished. (It's breathtaking right?) I've been following his work for sometime, and as a Chronicles of Narnia fan, it just made sense to combine the two.

Along with work from Martina, Ken Barber, George Bickham, (and of course) Doyald Young; I found an elegant script style as inspiration for my project.

Aslan: The Great Lion - image 2 - student project

Here is my sketch progression

Aslan: The Great Lion - image 3 - student project

thumbnail sketch

Aslan: The Great Lion - image 4 - student project

Aslan: The Great Lion - image 5 - student project

Using this as a starting point, I decided to explore more flourishes and finally came up with this one:

Aslan: The Great Lion - image 6 - student project

Aslan: The Great Lion - image 7 - student project

After endlessly refining the curves, I used a separate sheet of tracing paper to add in weight (the technique taught in the lesson).

Aslan: The Great Lion - image 8 - student project

Aslan: The Great Lion - image 9 - student project

From here I scanned in the two layers and jumped into Illustrator.

Aslan: The Great Lion - image 10 - student project

Aslan: The Great Lion - image 11 - student project

I found using a skeleton layer to create the weight layer really helps to keep the curves consistent.

Aslan: The Great Lion - image 12 - student project

Here's a test print to double check any small mistakes I may have missed.

Aslan: The Great Lion - image 13 - student project

The arrows mark where I made changes. I realized that from far away, it was really hard to read the "A", so I opened up the white space, and thickened the weight on the second stroke. I also added weight to the cross bar for legibility. For the "l" I closed up the loop, and for the "a" I increased the height of the stem.

Aslan: The Great Lion - image 14 - student project

A small but helpful adjustment was adding a white shadow to help the eye determine hierarchy between two similar weighted flourishes.

Aslan: The Great Lion - image 15 - student project

Here's the final piece reversed on black.

Thank you all for viewing my project and everyone who left the kind words—I had a lot of fun with this class!

Chris Vinca

Logotype Designer

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