As a concept, I think this is one of my favorite projects. I love the creativity that goes into creating this. This time around I wanted to go with something hand-made, not the photography route like I did last time. I decided I wanted an ocean theme early on and the brainstorming process was  long and hard one. I had originally intended on doing something realistic. This is actually what took up most of my time, I tried to find tutorials that I liked and had resonated with and that alone made me question my ideas. I back-pedaled and started to double think myself and was reminded what Professor Cromar had told me and it pushed me to keep going and maybe just slightly rethink my ideas, not the concept. There is still a part of me that loves children and working with them so I decided to go with a very cartoonish version instead of realistic. I decided on Jellyfish and the tentacles making up the letters.

Here is a concept sketch:

I wanted it to be a very uniform process so I focused on the colors being different rather than the face changes or major tentacle movement. I had originally wanted to do a mermaid tail but after further thinking, I thought the jellyfish would still be an appropriate. I ended up doing a templated build using a tutorial (http://vectips.com/tips-and-tricks/10-steps-draw-cute-glowing-jellyfish-adobe-illustrator/) and then using that templated hood to keep that uniform and then continue with the color pattern underneath.

Here is the template I created:

As you can see I added the tentacles as I was doing the letters. I decided on certain colors and the pattern to keep that uniform.

Once I started the A and finished that, I realized how happy I really was with this concept.

The “A”:

Looking at it, I really enjoy it and I think I even like it more than what I originally thought I was gonna do.

Examples of the color pattern:

 

Here is the finished product:

This is the gif set with every letter. I love this version because you can really see the uniformity and similarities between each one along with the slight different in colors (which are purposefully in a pattern)