Word Play

Word List:

Sketches:
The first things that came to mind to use in my sketches were a door, book, can, jar, or a door lock.
I narrowed it down to the door and door lock as my final drafts on the word play. I am going to incorporate the door lock into the center of the o and use the P and E as open doors in the middle of the square. For color I believe I am going to go with black and white. So I can create shadows with the doors and to help develop a foreground, middle ground, and background.

I started with Impact as the font and created outlines on the text. I deleted the center out of the "O"

 I created a circle and a rectangle and moved the endpoints into the circle for the middle of the "o".

 I colored it white to start an overlay on the "o" as well as create it as a shape.

 Once I positioned it into the "o" I used the Pathfinder to delete it out of the center of the "o".

 I started adjusting the P shape to put onto the perspective grid.

 Once I put it into the perspective grid it made it more on a perspective put the bottom was not correct.

The "e" I put on the perspective grid also. It did not adjust the E's bottom to be cocked.

 I added a doorway to line the tops and bottoms of the letters.

 I then adjusted the P's bottom and put it next to the O. I tried changing the 'o' to a square, but it was too much black.

I reverted back to the old style o and put near the p. I do not like them so close

 I added a gap to give it air in between the letters/

I stretched the letters up so they stand like doors.

I started to add shadows to the bottom of the square. The shadows were too long so I raised the letters taller and made the shadows smaller.

Then I adjusted it to be the full 4 x 4 square. I did not use color for the project because I felt it was effective without it. The color palette I thought was to use brown for the letters and that was not a significant change to me.