Creating this image was honestly harder than I expected. I thought it would be as easy as just throwing down 4 Japanese characters and then resizing accordingly and then coloring in the background, but I ran into other complications, such as it being oddly too thin or putting them together in strange shapes that didn't go together well.

The largest part of my time went in reshaping the Japanese font I used to look properly in the square canvas. I had to adjust the thickness of the font and how it was shaped and also account for certain techniques (such as the curved triangle or the amount of negative space).

I think that choosing to slant る was a good call. If I had more time I would try to perfect my forms more, especially in 愛. I could try to make the thicknesses more even (or perhaps try to vary the thicknesses as Indiana did).

Overall though, I think this was a decent attempt at creating a Japanese version of LOVE ♥