Alright, it's time for another class project. Uh, unsurprisingly, I'm gonna get you  to do the exact same thing we did  in the last tutorial, okay? But instead of using gd, okay, for my uh,  Grenada Donuts, use your business. Okay? Figure out what the two initials are. Hopefully you get better letters than me.

I don't like the word letter D for doing those things for,  it's just that tricky letter  to make anything happen with our wise. Good cues are great. Okay? It depends on what you get. But I got GD There you go. So use yours.

Um, make your own custom flourish. Okay? Now you can start with letters like I did from Illustrator. So I, I used uh, uh, lust. Okay? That was the font that I used.

You can start from a font that you like. Go find something that you wanna start with, okay? Or you can totally hand draw it. Custom, it's up to you. Um, I don't mind which, uh,  have a look at other people's work. I made a better search.

I changed my kind of search parameters inside of Google  to add the word calligraphy. That really helped get me some really good examples for you. I've left the link in the exercise file. So go through, get some ideas about how you might do it. Some of them are like just really simple. Okay.

And some of them are really, really complex. Okay? It's up to you and what you're, you know, oh that's cool. Alright, so I want you to go and do it. Um, you can start from a hand drawing like I did. Okay.

To draw over the top of. I like it. That way you can start straight and illustrate. I don't mind. Um, when you have done it though,  if you did do the hand drawing version,  make sure you send us a like a before and after  or like the hand drawn version and the finished version. And you don't have to be limited by just the initials.

If you wanna go a bit further with this one,  I'll just show you some of the stuff that I did a while ago. And so yeah, went mad  and kind of made this thing for um,  something I was working on. Okay, but that took me forever. That's not the purpose of this kind of class project. But I don't wanna limit you  by just doing the initials as well. You can go bananas.

It's another one that I did. You don't have to do exactly what I did here as well. Okay? I did something different for another project. Okay? Living spree is kind of the brand thing that I do pseudonym  that I kind of design under and I did this thing as well.

Okay? So there you go. Width tool, curly bits. Um, try and add these little blobs in here  'cause that's what we were working on. But it's more about practicing how  to use the width tool than anything. So have some fun, something simple,  something complex, totally up to you.

And make sure you share it with me. I'd love to see kind of before and  after, especially if you did a drawing. And one thing I'm gonna introduce here is the critique  sandwich and when you are sharing your work, okay? Both in the assignment section and on social media. I'm kind of, I find it tricky to keep up with everything. I did it at the beginning and it's just I can't do it  anymore and reply to everybody.

So we kind of do it as a team. So if you're joining up and  what we do is if you've uploaded something  and looking for a little bit of feedback,  you've gotta give feedback to two other people, okay? Pay it forward, okay? And it's the only way we  can all get some feedback. And I find that if you are giving feedback to other people,  you will help become a better designer. Being able to articulate yourself to others  through social media, which is kind  of like low risk, easy to do.

You can kind of do it badly  and nobody really cares 'cause you  Know it's not a client meeting. It just helps when you do get to that client meeting  or you're trying to describe your ideas to teammates  or colleagues or investors. Okay? Uh, yeah, there you go. So go through and um, if you see somebody else's work, okay,  make sure you go through to two other people. And what I find is really useful is the critique sandwich.

And what I mean by that is if you've never given feedback  before, often what comes across well is easy  to deliver is the sandwich. So you have positive on either side of something  that is critical, okay? And when it's critical, it's not like that's crap. It's like something that you would do differently  or something they might try. So in case of this one, I might say I really like the  flourish around the L and the V. It's really good.

I'm unsure about  what happens at the E here. Okay, at the end I reckon it, you know, needs a bit of work  or it might need to wrap around again  or it's a bit thicker than everything else. But overall I love it. I love the colors you've picked  and the way that the two words connect together. Uh, really, you know, uh, is really inspiring. So can you see that?

That's the critique sandwich. There's stuff to do hidden amongst positivity  and it just comes off well it's delivered well,  receives well and gets what you need across in terms  of, you know, the critique. So make sure there is not just, it's bad, you know,  it's something that you don't like, but you might try this. I find that is a really clever way to get your idea across  to people without insulting them or making them feel bad. There you go. Just critique my own work.

Need to go fix this now. Uh, there you go. So make sure post stuff. Love to see what you're doing. I try and chip in when I can. So do the TAs around, bring your laptop  and can't get to everything.

So we do it teamwork wise. You help out two other people, we'll pay it forward  and we'll all get some cool results. And it works for both the deliverer  of the critique and the receiver. That is a long video. I know, but there you go. I'm gonna say it once, uh, onto the next video.

Can't wait to see what you do. It's awesome. I love this tutorial. Makes really good social media  stuff that I get to see. So make sure you share it. Alright,  that is it onto the next video.