To get more practice with the drawing tools, I took on the challenge of tracing the excellent ambigrams of the four elements that John Langdon designed for the book Angels & Demons. I downloaded the small GIF files from johnlangdon.net, and then used the pen tool in Illustrator to trace the outline. I also had to make lots of small adjustments to add in the details that are absent from the low-res originals. I had to make educated guesses about how these details were supposed to look. Here's the first one, Earth:

This seems like a relatively simple design, but the ea/th combination is not at all an obvious solution. It's clever and very effective.
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