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- Hi Mr. Greg back again for lesson three of three.
We are going to do some word duality today.
This is a lesson that I really like
that I'm going to give you a prompter right now
you might find this a little bit more difficult
than the other lessons that we've gone through.
Again Mr. G, LOL, Love of Lettering
work duality lesson plan.
So let's go again over materials,
ruler,
pencil,
sharpie,
either colored pencils or colored markers.
In word duality
we are going to pick some words
that have two meanings.
Like, the first example I give you is Black American.
And I'm also gonna ask you guys to give a definition
of what the duality
or what the word inside the word means to you.
So with Black American,
you can see that underscored the i in red
and highlighted can in red.
So for me being a Black American,
I can do anything
that would be the prompter that I would give for this
graphic piece that I made.
And then another example that I'm gonna show you guys is,
I picked the word fairness.
With the highlighted word being air
and at least in my opinion,
fairness is like air.
We all know it exists but it's seldom seen.
Again, I want you guys to approach it like this.
I need to know what your word is
and what it's defined to you.
I'm asking you guys to go a little bit deeper
than I've asked you to go in the past.
I'm gonna give you one example.
And then we're gonna build up one, two.
And I'm also going to give you a list of some words
that have words within them.
And you notice that the words spell out completely,
I would like to see that with that, I wouldn't,
don't wanna see red U with a red B with a red A.
I want to have the word spell completely.
And this word I chose was upbeat,
because I feel if you're upbeat, you eat life.
And here I wanna give you guys some words that
have words within them.
And I'm gonna post a list of words up there.
It's not the end-all de facto list.
There's many words that you guys can come up on your own
that I haven't listed,
but I am gonna name a few of those
and get you the words
that I was able to find within those words.
So the first word I'm gonna start off with is grind.
And I was able to find the word grin with that out of that.
So, if, you know, if I was going to put
a prompter or statement to that,
I might say that
I grin when I'm on the grind.
Being a person that likes to work more than not.
I always look at that as being a good thing.
Idle time isn't always the best thing for me.
But anyway let's go on with some more words.
Splurge and with the word urge in there
spelt completely up.
Slovenly with the word love in there.
Tricky with the word icky.
Sight with the word sigh
Crystal with the word cry.
Fundamentalist with the word mental.
Feminist with the word is.
And that's a few examples
again there is a full list for you guys up there.
And again it's not a complete list,
you guys can use a dictionary or thesaurus to
figure out what other words
that you might wanna be able to find
that would have that dual autonomy to them.
Again, you can use, as for materials on this,
you could type up different fonts
on the computer if you have access to that,
but I'm gonna show you how to build up a letter form
by the same way that we built it up the last time.
So I'm gonna start off with the straight line.
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I'm gonna choose the word black
and then drop my letter forms out of that word.
So we're gonna start off the same way that we always do
with drawing our line letters.
And again remember that this is just a sketch.
This is your start, not your end.
And again you might have to do some erasing on this.
Okay, so starting to get your letters into a block form,
I was able to start to build up
my word which is black
that I did in my own typography or my own font.
And for this word I would say
that being black
shouldn't mean that you feel
that you're in lack or at lack to anyone else.
Thank you again for
listening to all three of my lesson plans
and watching them.
This is Mr. Greg
and I just wanna say thank you for your time.
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