Font Poem

This "poem" can be heard and found on youtube. I chose a couple of song lyrics first but realized that they were either too long or not weird enough for my liking. I took this phrase from a popular youtube video. It's this guy talking to his "girlfriend" and telling her to make him a chicken sandwich, and of course, "fo free". The creator of this youtube video is clever, rude, and hysterical. These youtube videos I believe first came out about five years ago and I still hear some of his quotes from time to time by friends and random people. I myself have formed a habit of talking the way he did. He talks the way you would talk if you were angry and said things but didn't move your teeth, kind of keeping your bottom teeth touching the top.

Anyways, the font poem was a ton of fun, but also so very frustrating at the same time. I first made one that somehow got erased and had no idea what happened. I had to start over. Ahh, I know. So when I got the words out there I messed around with the styling and colors. I used a lot of black lettering because the way you say this quote/poem is in a dark manner. None the less, I had a black background as well, but just absolutely didn't like it so I immediately changed it back to white.

The fonts and coloring were very tough. I was able to somehow figure it out the way I liked it. As you can see not much has changed from the rough draft from the final. I had the colors, font, and size down in the rough draft, I just wasn't sure of how I was going to position it. I knew I wanted the "chicken sandwich" and "waffle fries" together but separate. Another tough part was the words waffle and fries. You can see the in the background of the word waffle and fries are letters. I copy pasted the letter "i" and placed em in the background and rotating them. The same went for the word waffle but with the letter "l" and there is one "f" as well in the background. This was tough to do and took some time but all in all I think that it is the highlight of my font poem.

This was the most fun and exciting assignment to date and it also helped me a whole lot with the program PhotoShop. I didn't know how to do much of this in the beginning but after playing around for hours - I learned as I went.