hope postah

The assignment for this project was to make a 24" by 36" poster about hope.  For some reason I had my mind set on trying to incorporate some elements from old medical charts (see previous post...), but after scribbling out a whole bunch of ideas, it eventually became pretty irrelevant and unrelated and then I couldn't even understand my original idea in the first place.  After the second attempt, I thought it at least looked better, but it still didn't make much sense.  So I went back to the drawing board and decided to take the advice of my teacher and recreate the entire heart entirely out of type.  (The idea sort of evolved into hope being in the heart, the cheesiness of that statement sort of makes me cringe).  So I ended up hand lettering this entire bitch of a thing on tracing paper, full scale, which took about 10 hours, I really wasn't happy with the result (or the process).  My only *hope* was that when I scanned it in and fixed it up on the computer, it would look a little better.  So I did just that and fucked around with it for a few hours that I really didn't have to spare, but I think that it came out pretty well.  There are a few things that need fixing if I feel so inclined to do it, eventually.  My teacher was pretty excited about it, but he suggested that perhaps I redo it so that you can actually read all the words.  Though my whole deal was that I didn't necessarily want them all to be legible.  Besides, I'm pretty sure I threw a bunch of "fucks" and weird stream of consciousness things in there after working on it for hours.  Anyway, uhh, I could conclude with another hope pun but I won't.