:Oops: Sorry, I probably shouldn’t have been so hasty. Other than the box that says ‘Feed the Fire’ those aren’t what I consider hand painted representations.
Like you said, ‘To each his own’, but I think, and I believe most hand painters here or anywhere, will agree that lettering off the brush usually doesn’t include things that look like they were scribbled with a crayon or magic marker.
Building letters with a brush, one stroking letters or calligraphy was usually creating perfect letters on a truck, billboard, shocard or any other substrate. Most hand letters worked and practiced hard developing their skills. I always laughed, that after I got good at the many hand-lettering styles, they came out with the computer to help me. Now here was a tool that could make everything absolutely perfect… every lower case ‘e’ or ‘a’ had the exact same stroke, every ‘s’ had the same swish to it. Wow, but in no time they started coming out with casual fonts and crazy fonts. Granted, they add some flare here and there for visual ‘effects’, but totally unneeded in good sign layout or design. Now that you have a tool that can make it perfect, everyone wants the tool to make it look like what we did when we weren’t good letterers. Bass-Ackwards, don’t you think ??
Now the new blood is coming along and they tend to like the ‘scribbled look’, it just goes against the grain to do a perfect job. Bands, church groups and lots of charity organizations seem to like that look… as if a child made it… so in that case, I give in and say, try it, you might like it.
Again sorry, I didn’t mean to be obstinate, just an old habit, hard to break.
