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THE ARTIST 5
This idea carried through to a range of director's chairs I painted. Then, in early 1996 I bought a new computer and signed up for the internet. I became interested in web graphics, creating little icons. After I scanned in small line drawings, I would vectorise them and add colour, my first experiments are further down on the right. I was using what I had as usual, in this case the most basic of paint programmes with a limited colour range. By then of course I was a mother and reading to my daughter on a daily basis, I was exposed to wonderful art in children's books. I have also always been interested in type and fonts, when I was a studio assistant as a teenager, I occasionally laid out type using the process from last century of pasting and carefully cutting and pushing into place with a scalpel, it took real skill and an accurate eye. I was
attracted to handwritten and casual looking fonts, and by chance on the internet in 1997 came across a basic tutorial for creating fonts. This was long, laborious work without a font making programme, but instead creating each letter and exporting each graphic one by one into the correct position in a .ttf file. This was how I created my very first font julesgirltalk and some of the other earlier ones. Julesgirltalk and Juleslove were both font of the day award winners.
In 1998, as a mother of a 3 year old, I began to be obsessed with picture books. Read more...