New lettering!

So, this is probably my first time attempting my own typeface from scratch. I'm still going to refine these, but I like how Tuscany turned out, so I used it as my foundation when making the other letters. Like the example in my previous post, I want the logos to take on a more artistic approach to emphasize Italy's history.

I first hand drew some logo ideas, which were pretty rough. Then, I scanned those and placed them into Photoshop and drew over them using a 6x8 Wacom tablet. I played with the brush settings till I achieved a good brush tip. I decided to vectorize my letters with a program called "cocoa potrace" -mac only- which works much better than illustrator live trace. Your vectors alway come out smoother. A few letter spacing tweaks and this is what I have so far.