36 12 DAYS OF TYPE — Personal Typographic Exploration
Year — 2022
Client — Personal Project
Category — Typography / Experimental Lettering
Tools — Procreate, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
Description —
Personal typographic exploration created as part of the 36 Days of Type challenge. The project focused on experimenting with different letterforms and visual styles.
The series includes letters A–L, developed as a creative exercise to explore composition, structure, and expressive typography.
ITS FINALLY DONE! Read it like how you would read a normal comic.
BONUS:
—— some early concept sketches ——
I’ll be working on more content for this project, trust me. I’m ridiculously slow at these (this time being an exception because I finished this one wayyyyy quicker than I ever expected) but I’m excited to show more about this world to people and I hope you’re as excited as me to explore it. I’M SO CRINGE I’m just gonna stop taking…
Credits: @thousandth-island for the awesome writing literally the life support to this whole thing
@nether-before , @arins-art-alley , @capitulationofcappyville , @swtpup (spgora) and @mortem-seas for the snakelet designs !!
Pls stay close by and don’t be shy to ask literally anything it helps me articulate ideas *stands cutely*
— Take this.
— Are you sure? Are you absolutely sure? Do you truly want this?
— You already know.
— Yes, we know... You’re sure. You want it. We want it. We’re sure. We’ll take it.
— Bring “me.”
— To h-i-m. Yes. We’ll bring “us” to him. To us. He is us.
— This is the last chance.
— The last... Last... Last...
— You must understand.
— He must understand...
“Tasty? Do you like it?”
A distorted voice, uneven with excitement, came from somewhere above her head; the table groaned miserably under the weight suddenly placed upon it.
“I tried my best. Eat - it’s all for you.”
The theme of food - or rather consumption — appears throughout the story of the Wormy Roots, and I couldn’t ignore its more mundane side: warm, appetizing, and just a little unsettling.
It’s also a perfect opportunity to share my vision of the Worm’s hybrid form and a few details about him:
• Upon entering the Vast - the land of mortals - the Worm sought to fill himself with new sensations, and soon the variety of food became one of his main fascinations. As he tasted and discovered new flavors, he developed a particular fondness for spices and hot dishes, and later grew interested in cooking itself.
• Without sight in the conventional sense, it relies on other senses and, though not immediately, eventually excelled in this craft, making the kitchen its personal sanctuary.
• Ghanna was the first to dare try his cooking, even during his earliest, disastrous attempts, and she helped him find his footing in the kitchen. For the Worm, Ghanna is a special person, for whom it cooks with particular zeal and a strange, almost childlike reverence.
• Cooking was what helped the Worm adapt better to a human body - especially to hands, which for a long time remained unfamiliar and clumsy to him.
• The Worm does not need ordinary food, but he takes pleasure in the process itself - in the taste, textures, and smells. Unfortunately for those around him, this also means he can eat endlessly without feeling full, and has a poor understanding of the limits of mortal stomachs.
