Drop cap 1 - Process

First drop cap of the semester, DONE! Like many other people I wasn't really sure what was meant by a "drop cap" and had to google and search around to fully understand what it was. I also checked out the original Daily Drop Cap to find some sort of inspiration as to where to start. Even with all the ideas I found I ended up coming up with something completely different. I have the tendencies to draw circles on my papers when I'm bored or zoning out and class and it gave me the idea during philosophy to make my drop cap out of circles! I could have just as easily done this in Illustrator but wanted to do something by hand with pen since I normally shy away from it and use the computer. Using a circle guide I made some sort of pattern in my head and tried to follow it as much as possible. I was pretty happy with the way that it came out. I could see using this letter as part of an architecture company's logo or some sort of business that deals with geometry.

UPDATE: In class today we were told that for next week our new drop cap is just to update and fix the first letter. Rather than completely do my drop cap over by hand I decided to try it in illustrator. People in class suggested varying the width of the lines so I played around with that in illustrator and am not sure how I feel about it. Both versions are below even though they are kind of hard to tell the difference.