Anything But Common

This past month, I participated in an Instagram challenge (36daysoftype) where we created one letter of the alphabet each day. I’ve wanted to draw the alphabet for a few years now, but haven’t known what kind of a theme I’d want to have, so I kept procrastinating.

Then an Instagram friend Monica asked if she could animate a letter of mine for the challenge. Since I didn’t have the alphabet illustrated already, I decided I’d draw a steampunk Z for her, so it would have cool moving parts. Once I drew that, my hyper-focus kicked in and I decided to illustrate all of the letters. My theme would just be “random.”

I created a list of topics (different types of food, weather, genres, art, etc.), and just grabbed one each day to turn it into a letter. It was so much fun having freedom to do whatever I wanted, not worrying about the fact that none of the themes or sounds matched the letters. When I was finished, I wanted to hold these quirky ABC illustrations in my hands, so I turned it into a book that is Anything But Common. 🙂