#2 CALLIGRAM: Create a Calligram in Adobe Illustrator.
This project was too fun and too cool. This is called a calligrame. I had never heard that word before, but when I looked it up I realized that I knew what it was, I just never learned the proper word for it. It was really pretty easy. All we had to do was find a line drawing of something, the simpler the better, retrace it in Illustrator, and then put the text in instead of the lines that were drawn. These had always seemed so much more difficult than it turned out to be. I thought that the people who made them had to just have the picture of what they wanted already in their heads and then turn the words and letters manually to fit what they wanted. Boy, was I wrong!
At first, I did a cat and replaced the lines with a modified version of a poem I had written over winter break. It was cool, but I didn't like the text.
Since I still had time left in class, I asked a friend what else I should do and she suggested I do the lyrics to the song "Trees" by Twenty One Pilots. So I found a line drawing of a dead tree (it had to be dead because the song is sad and weird) and voila! There's the calligrame that I like better of the two. If you'd like to read the lyrics without needing to turn your head, here they are:
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/twentyonepilots/trees.html
And if you would like to actually listen to the song, here it is:
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