I thought this was effective because at first glance you would notice this image as the letter J, then you see all the little details of the creatures that look like they’re having a conversation with eachother, as though the letter is telling a story.
To emphasise the presence of these creatures I hid bits that you would recognize as parts ofbodies, such as wings, legs and hands. I also included a few creatures, mixed in with the pattern of the more complex parts of the letter. However, I think the simplicity of the main body of the J in contrast with the rest of the letter gives the whole picture a nice balance. I struggled with drawing this kind of pattern so I settled with just replicating the simplest pattern that I saw during my research of celtic typography. The main base of the letter is drawn using a traditional celtic pattern, where solid blocks are shaped to look like they’re twisting around each other. I am happy with the outcome of my final letter. That is the kind of letter I wanted to create, so I found more medieval lettering with this kind of detail to look at and take inspiration from. I think they are the most beautiful because the more you look at them the more detail you find. I found that the most interesting letters and medieval drawings taken from storybooks were the ones with these mythical looking creatures contained in the patterns. I think it’s a possibility that the people who drew these creatures made their faces look weirdly human out of habit, of drawing what they know. On the other hand, people had had many generations of drawing humans. Nowadays we can take photographs and capture what the face of an animal looks like quite simply, but people would have had to work from their imagination in those days as I’m sure they were not able to observe and study wild animals for very long because they would move too quickly. I found that the creatures have oddly human faces, which leads me to think maybe the artists had not developed the skill to draw animals in the middle ages. I think these creatures were probably the mythical creatures who came up in the story,or they could be the artist’s interpretation of how they saw real animals. Some more detailed letters would contain odd looking creatures whos bodies would be entwined with the pattern of the letter. The first letter of the chapter would be dectorated with patterns and swirls to highlight the beginning of the story. People would create intricate lettering like this to include in books about myths and historical stories. It often came up that this kind of typography was used in the middle ages, during which was the beginning of the reneissance and the age of discovery. During the process of creating this Celtic style letter J, I researched the use of medieval fonts in history.
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