Yes, the title is supposed to be read as a scream, because I have the song by Tenacious D stuck in my head. In fact, Metal inspired me to do the word (I was listening to Blind Guardian at the time - one might know them from Robot Unicorn Attack: the one that isn't all rainbows and dolphins) Otherwise I was at a loss for what I should do. Though, originally, I was going to make the words out of electric guitars and other commonly associated images, but I liked some of the textures I found of actual metal.
I used my skills in Photoshop to bring out each of the textures in the letters, using a kind of blobby brush for all but the "E," for which I used a plain old sharp brush in combination with a brush meant for hair if you can believe it.
I liked how it turned out overall, and I especially liked the E and the T. Not surprisingly, I spent more time on those because I really thought the textures had potential. Now that I'm looking back, I'm thinking I would have liked the outcome of the project better if I had used just those two textures, but I wanted more than one type of metal incorporated in the word.
