2024 Broadway SAL C - Design Insights

So we actually had a lot of trouble with this one because there were so many things we could have done. Of course we had to do planes, which, fun fact, because of this musical I have drawn more planes than were delayed there. So many airplanes.

Anyway this one has the big plane, but also some little ones, so more can be added to connect it to other letters when they're put together.

This letter was animal forward. Originally I had the blue striped world in the center of the C, with Newfoundland featured, but it was a bit busy looking. Instead I subbed in a moose, because Moose.

I messed up a little when drawing the moose, and at first it looked like a bad after school special about demon moose, then I got the eye fixed and she looks ok. I did almost accidentally draw a male moose.

The other animal is of course the Cod, with his little bottle of Screech. I was surprised at how easy it was to draw the cod that size, I'm always surprised at how easy it is to draw fish. They always seem like they're going to be complicated and then I sit down and it's dead simple.

The hard thing on here to draw was the phone. I decided to go with the phone and the computer, because the feeling of being disconnected is prevalent through the whole musical, and the first song either of us listened to from Come From Away was Phoning Home. We tried to add tiny words to the computer screen to say “I am here” but it wouldn't quite fit.

Going into the words, we wanted to keep this one short, because there wasn't a lot of space, so we went with I'm an islander. There was a fairly large debate about doing stripes on a letter next to a letter that already had stripes, but as you can see we ended up deciding to go with it.

This letter does have the tiniest amount of backstitch, just on the white part of the plane so that it'll be visible against a white background. If your fabric is a different color, the outline isn't strictly necessary.

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2024 Broadway SAL B - Design Insights

We tried a couple different things for this one because there were so many elements we wanted to fit into the design. The snake being the first thing, though obviously the snake didn't make it into the design. It was too big to be identifiable at the size we would have needed it. Then we tried to add the giant puppet, but it looked like the B was doing jazz hands.

We ended up going with the scenery from the beginning (coffin), and the railing that is on the roof of the house. After we put those elements on with the stripes in the B (which at the time were thinner, but it was impossible to read the words so we had to widen the stripes), it was starting to have the general vibe we were going for. Then we put the netherworld into the holes in the B. We were originally going to do the door with the netherworld in it, but decided to use the holes in the B instead because it worked out nicely. Then we added the green beetle, because, you know we had to :)

The book was the last graphic we added on, and probably the most detailed graphic. We originally drew two of it to see which came out better, we didn't think we were going to be able to get the detail on it we wanted, but Tina decided to give it a try and ended up thrilled with how it looked.

The words were fun, because I (Cynthia) really wanted to do Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, but there was no way I was going to fit that in the letter (and we're already putting the name on the designs). So we ended up going with creating a shadow effect on the name, so that it was like it was there twice and “give me just one more” on the letter.

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