Thank you Aaron Draplin for this class - you are an incredible designer, teacher, and person!

I made this crest for my work family, after being asked to design a celebratory end of the year t-shirt (to which I replied, "yes please" and immediately began dreaming up designs far more elaborate than I'm sure my boss was envisioning). I work in a high school, so I filled the crest with phrases and objects of our school, the fidget spinner laurel being my favorite detail. I hope it makes my coworkers smile :)

MCXIII crest - image 1 - student project

MCXIII crest - image 2 - student project

PROCESS

I started by created a stream of conscious list of anything relevant to our school then sketched on this items. This was a great warm up!

MCXIII crest - image 3 - student project

MCXIII crest - image 4 - student project

MCXIII crest - image 5 - student project

MCXIII crest - image 6 - student project

MCXIII crest - image 7 - student project

MCXIII crest - image 8 - student project

I then went on the computer and tried out a bunch of new techniques from this class. Here's a zoom-out of my artboard and some zoom-ins.

MCXIII crest - image 9 - student project

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MCXIII crest - image 13 - student project

Thanks again to Aaron Draplin; this was such a fun project and I learned a lot!

Sophie Kaplan

Illustrator, Designer, and Calligrapher

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