Letter Designs On Illustrator

today i designed a series of letters on illustrator i did a couple of my names and to do this you have to set up a page on illustrator any size as long as you can make a decent design i used the text tool to type letters on the page

 

i then went to the window option at the top of the screen then selected expanded then i went to the direct selection tool and clicked and dragged on the ancor points to make these designs you can also drag the letters away from each other to make more space you can do this buy using the selection tool to pull them apart from each other