Quick Draw 1
Jan 9th, 2012 | By Nikita | Category: Feature, Quick DrawFor this Quick Draw, we give you a word that’s a reminder (or is it remainder?) of the 2011 holiday season. Both of the participants for this Quick Draw have been designing ambigrams & contributing to Ambigram.com for a while. So take a look at their solutions, feel free to post your own & discuss the work. Happy 2012 fellow ambigrammists! [NOTE: All designs are copyrighted by the respective artists. We have permission to post them here, but you must get permission from the artist for any other use of their design, or to post them elsewhere.]
Prajyot Damle
“BahHumbug”…To be honest i heard this word or phrase (pardon me if i am wrong 
) for the first time. But to a ambigrammist a word is a word so the process starts with some doodling and scribbling the letters on a piece of paper.
Initially as we can see “b” and “g” are natural ambigrams as are “U” and “A”. So we are done there. next are “h” and “b”, initially thought of a capital “H” and “B”, but they were pretty unclear. Soon i got the combination of “h” and “b” pretty well and finalized on that.
The main task here was “hum” and “muh”. I thought of combining “hu” to make “M”. After spending a considerable amount of time i got the combination fairly. After completion a idea struck me, Why not a capital “B” instead of a small one. So i got to work and converted the thinking onto the paper. I also converted the top part of “h” to a bell to add to Christmas fever. This was my first completed ambigram after a gap of 3 months and i am very happy that i got it through.
Clayton Mabey
I started with a rotational sketch.
Then I thought it would be fun to complete a chain. I wasn’t too pleased with the B/H…so I didn’t push it to the infinite circular chain. I did like the humbug portion of the design.
Here’s my first sketches of a mirror design.
Here is the design drawn out by hand with my blue pilot gel pen.
Here is the design placed with an image of Scrooge.
Dear Prajyot and Clayton, thank you for participating in this Quick Draw!
To the rest of the ambigram community: I know we waited a bit for this Quick Draw, but as you know, life can become hectic at times, especially over the holiday season. I would say it was worth the wait…but feel free to say Bah Humbug if you want to! 
What a strange phrase and what a productive wait!
@Prajyot: The only thing that I like more in your sketches it the A-U. This little horizontal line is better placed in the last sketch. You made it through though. The big stem og the ‘h’ manages to hide in the right side of the ‘m’. Congratulations!
@Clayton: The classic style strikes again! I’m not sure if Prajyot has not followed a mirror approach, but at least you showed it. I like your chain one. But since Bah and Humburg are different words, why not put BAH as a background and HUMBUG in the front? That would be great. As for the final solution, you always surprise the community creating mirror ambigrams, which are so difficult. Congrats to you too.
I love how they both resolved that word, not simple. The case of @ Prajyot the B as g is just great. @ Clayton as always displaying his genius and refined style. What good, indeed the same handwriting in the sketch. I congratulate them both!
Wow… Beautiful designs by both of you. I am really happy to see Prajyot back with ambigrams and this one is really great. And Clayton, what more to tell about this mirror magician. While he consistently produces great rotational ambigrams with his most stylish lettering style, he achieves some unbelievable mirrors with his unique letter combinations. Prajyot’s ‘B/g’ is one of the best combo I have ever seen (next to Martijn Slegers’s ‘Blessing’)
I really appreciate the comments. It was a very fun project. I will try to develop Vasileios Stergioudis’ idea and add a link to it!!!