Learning new skills
With the launch of A Little Scary came new artistic needs and an exasperated Yoshi got tired of telling me I needed to learn Adobe Illustrator. So I finally broke down and listened to him and I’ve been working with it for a few weeks now. I have to admit that it’s not as bad as I thought it would be and I’m learning quite a bit. Now Muse just wishes I’d stop making stupid little graphics that a kindergartner could draw with a box of crayons and asking her to look-y look-y on a constant basis. No I will not grow up, thank-you-very-much.
So here’s a new logo I came up with while talking to Yoshi about his new design. I did this completely in Illustrator and although it looks pretty good, I still had to fight with it to do some things and have no idea why other things happened. I guess as long as the end result looks OK, who cares about the rest of it.
As you can see it’s a bit funky and retro and I have no idea why this idea came to me. It’s just one of those rare bouts of inspiration that I actually took the time to act on. It’s not too fancy and I wanted to add more to it, but Muse kept telling me that “less is more” and I think she just really wanted me to stop showing her every little thing I changed.
So maybe I’ll figure out a way to integrate that with the theme somehow. Or maybe not. I suppose I should be working on a logo for the web comic. That would have made more sense. Any ideas for that?
April 11, 2008 10:52 am 6 Comments
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By yoshi, April 11, 2008 @ 12:34 pm
Does this work?
I like the art. Listen to Muse, less is more!
By Colin Brooks, April 11, 2008 @ 6:37 pm
Oh wow! I’m loving the logo! It’s very good and less is definitely more when it comes to logos. I have tried to make a logo for my blog a few times over the past couple of years but the name of my blog is so long that it’s impossible to make something small enough to fit in my masthead and look good at the same time. So I have decided to just change the font, size and style every time I make a new masthead until I come up with something awesome.
By Rev Matt, April 11, 2008 @ 7:35 pm
That is seriously awesome!
By LR, April 11, 2008 @ 9:44 pm
Dig.
No ideas pop up for ALS yet.
By jason, April 12, 2008 @ 3:38 am
Impressive job. I like it.
By Meesh, April 15, 2008 @ 11:41 am
That’s pretty impressive! For some reason the stars seem to be screaming “Wonder Woman.” LOL!