Hand-lettering a cheesy quote

The task here was to create several hand-drawn variations of our chosen cheesy quote, mine which I picked out to be "I never dreamed of success, I worked for it." I kept my ideas fairly simple here going off the fact there was very little imagery that would be appropriate alongside the quote.

​The first one (top right) you see I have kept as a basic format, but organised the text in such a way that it forms a perfectly centralised diamond shape. The first thing that came to mind when reading this quote was businessman and so that's what I've gone for here. I've used a simple Serif type-face and block capitals with correct and bold punctuation, all in a black on white theme to keep in check with the idea of perfection and structure you'd be expected to live up to as a businessman, as mentioned previously.

The second example (bottom left) is a bit more quirky and typical of the kind of cringey quotes you often see online. I wanted to combine various type-faces in different sizes to create one vertical block of text. I tried going for a more hand-drawn approach to this one rather than a professional take like the previous one. The free-flowing type-faces I've used tie in quite well with the word 'dreamed', which in this instance I've also put emphasis on by creating that classic dream-cloud shape around it. Then, to fill in the gaps and add a little more structure, I simply broke the text up with some horizontal lines.

The last example is also very simple and somewhat similar to the second one in the fact that I have once again used the word 'dreamed' to help create a shape for the text to sit in, this being the thought bubble surrounding it all. This and the text being in an all caps Sans-Serif font has been largely influenced by the text you'd see in comic books when characters are talking or speaking which gave me the idea to replicate something similar here. Another common thing with that style is making certain words bold to emphasise them, which is exactly what I've done here too, particularly focusing on the words 'dreamed' and 'success' as they are the two main points of this quote.

This task has been very fun to play around with and I've found that hand-writing quotes in different formats is a good way of generating ideas which I might have to take forward and practice more often in the future.