Quote Originally Posted by Eleventee View Post
That's like copying the Nike logo and saying "it's my first logo ever". Just because it's the first thing like that you've done doesn't mean you have to exactly replicate something that someone else has done. It's not like you've followed a tutorial, you've just seen an image you like and done the exact same thing. You won't learn by doing that.
Ah, cut the guy some slack. You'd be surprised at exactly what sort of studying is involved in typography (there is ALOT). It's a lot more difficult than it looks and there's many aspects of letterforms that one has to study. He's just taking a queue from someone who knows how to do it to explore their thinking. No harm in that.

However, schultz, I'd still like to see work that shows you understand the rules, not just work that shows you've broken the rules without really understanding what they are (or even what they are?).

Don't do this again. Do something that follows the rules first :P