Global Creator: Sophie Elinor
Sophie Elinor is a Newcastle based creator whose vibrant and playful artworks blend design and language through illustration, visual art, stop motion, craft, and animation.
As a self-described ‘Type Dork’, her style is all about using bright and bold colours to create eye catching typography that brings the written form to life. See how she uses Adobe Illustrator to build drama through 3D lettering or add energy into existing fonts.
Download this Illustrator file and follow along to Sophie’s “Heaps Good” tutorial to create your own type full of personality.
Trace sketches and create energetic and lively text designs.
Sophie’s designs typically start in Illustrator. Her top tip is to start with a rough outline, adding guide lines for her baseline and x-height. Then it’s all about tracing and refining to bring the text to life by adjusting composition, curve shapes, negative space and colour.
Create a piece of lettering that is full of texture and energy.
Sophie creates her signature bold-style texts by starting with an existing typeface. From here, each letter is its own puzzle piece that can be adjusted, widened, lengthened and rotated to build the perfect image.
Design eye-catching 3D lettering
Watch as Sophie Elinor demonstrates how to experiment with different Adobe Illustrator tools, including the 3D and Materials feature and the Extrude and Bevel tool to create 3D text full of depth and drama.
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