Whilst I coloured my original alphabet idea - the monuments, I concluded these would be too difficult to make a full alphabet out of, although the idea behind them I liked, they were quite difficult to make out the actual letter shape and took a considerable amount of time to draw out. They would be perfect for a presentation or something to "promote" the monuments, but concluding the amount of time I'd have to focus on the alphabet, I decided this option wouldn't be best in a practical way.
I instead came up with a few other ideas - to do something based on my interests, or something that I'd liked - a cat. I'd be able to create the animals leaning over, arching their backs or using more than one to create the shapes that I desired, and if I kept this as minimal as possible then it would be much easier to draw and create. I also liked my original idea of creating a font that would cohere to the block layout of grid paper, each one fitting into one tiny block. These looked quite futuristic, using straight lines to join the letters together.
Overall I'm happy with how the letters came out, whilst they're simplistic, they're also quirky and something I enjoyed drawing, especially the cats as it was quite challenging to draw them in different styles whilst retaining a bit of character to them.
