WordGrams & Lettershapes
WordGram is the word I found myself using to describe the artworks I found myself making in my exploration of lettershapes.

Some of the pieces became a sort of puzzle game where the viewer would try to figure out what the WordGram said, some of these I made for my friends of their names.
Torren · Cherubim
Just Love
Digital Painting
A celebration of love, lettershape and colour.

Original digital art created with Adobe Fresco.
Walkin' Boots
Digital Painting & Animation
The lettering experiment here is in the boot tread.

"These boots are made for walkin'
And that's just what they'll do"
- Nancy Sinatra
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Remember kids, worms are our friends. No worms were directly harmed in the making of this piece.
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Original digital art and animation using Adobe Fresco and Ae.
It's The Mez
Digital Painting WordGram
For my dear friend Meredith.
It's Taankiie
Digital Painting WordGram
For my dear friend Sonal.
Maryam
Digital Painting WordGram
For my dear friend Maryam.
Thank You
Digital Painting
Exploring light, texture and form through lettershape.

(Also trying to make something I could use for my Thank you cards)
Start Here
Digital Painting WordGram
Start Here was initiated as an ambitious multi-faceted piece exploring various divergent aspects of animation, design and story-telling through a host of characters and detail.

The problem with such ambitious pieces is by the time you are half-way through you have explored and learned so much that you want to create something new.

I love the little characters and worlds along the yellow brick road encircling the piece.
MIWMIW // Maybe I Will, Maybe I Won't
Digital Painting WordGram
Each letter a world defined by the spirit of the lettershape.

I ultimately felt I let this one down with the colouring process, opting to give each letter just one colour, instead of allowing the worlds I created to fully flourish.

I justified this decision as I felt that the detail was so immense that fully colouring it would be both extremely time-intensive as well as being overwhelming to the viewer. In hindsight it seems I was also in a hurry to finish it as I over the course of creating the piece I started to feel ready to move away from outline defined painting.
Feed Your Head
Digital Painting
You can see the fill of the lettering a slightly hidden eye and lips painted without any outlines. Almost subconsciously telegraphing where I would later feel I needed to take my art.
Hey Beautiful
Digital Painting WordGram
This was one the first high-detail pieces as I really began to explore this feeling of creating mini-worlds and characters with each lettershape.
Whatever
Digital Painting WordGram
My second ever Wordgram.
CITYSCAPES
CHARACTERS