My first concrete step in this project was to create objects I would be reusing in each of the letter forms. Every letter would have 2 eyes and one pair of pants, to tie them all together into one cohesive group of letters. I did this in Illustrator for both sections. For the eyes I created one large circle with a smaller, filled circle in the middle to be a pupil. I wanted to give some character to the eyes so I also included some with furrowed brows and also droopy eyelids. The eyelids were trick because I had to basically put a green square over the eyes, then use the divide function to divide all the lines in the image, and cancel out all the green spaces that weren’t needed, resulting in the droopy eye figure. For the pants I had to join a couple of rounded rectangles together to give the arch-like shape of pants, then for the belt loop I made a small, brown, rounded rectangle, and copied that image multiple times along the same axis to give the illusion of belt loops. The shoes were basically a free-form drawing of cartoony shoes that I just attached at the end of the pant legs. I played around with the image until I got 4 different ‘body-shaped’ pants.
