After receiving some feedback from Mike, I booked out a graphics tablet from media loans to transfer my hand drawn type to the computer. I did this as my attempts to do this via scanning did not look the way I wanted to. I found it easier with the graphics tablet as it would smooth out the line that I had drawn.

I used the tablet by tracing over my hand drawn letters. The lowercase version of this worked well and fitted well within the page. I had a bit of a problem tracing in the uppercase version as it did not fit on the page. I managed to work around this though.

I played around with brush styles and sizes to find the best one. I liked 5pt flat brush but when transferred to Adobe Photoshop it didn’t join up very well and some parts were too thin so they did not stand out against a background very well. I changed to 3pt oval brush which I think worked a lot better as it is more thick and so stands out better. I also deleted anchor points and moved paths around to create a smoother line.

I then put the diamonds on in black and in red. I did this so that when it came to putting on the backgrounds in Photoshop, I could see which one would stand out better. For example, I thought about using red and white stripes associated with the circus as the background, so the red diamonds would not work as well as they would blend in with the red stripes, therefore I decided to create black ones as well.