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Designing a Logo for a friend, which one?
🕑 Added 2024-06-20 00:47:03 +0000 UTCThe stippling really went over board, flattening the whole image. I've gotta tighten these up tomorrow but here's some previews. Which one do you prefer?
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Cam
Top left
Eric Walton
Top left, nice detail but not as muddy as the one below. I'd convert it to vector, clean and polish it up a bit. Then chose a font style.
Mitchell
Or bottom left
Mitchell
Bottom right
April Hughes
I like the top right. It has the her name, or the name of her business. I would make the cap letters a couple of points smaller(maybe 4), and match the sizes of the rest of the letters. I would lighten the ground shadow a little towards the center, not a lot, though. The stippling looks fine! I love working in water media. Water color was/is my thing, but I got into working with ink when I had a dumb fucking cube farm job, and in between calls I'd doodle with my ballpoint pen. It's amazing what you can do with even ballpoint pen. Anyway, it gave me the bravery to try ink and I really like it! In my drawing class, the prof. had us do still lifes(lives?), where the stuff that was closer to you had a thicker line, and the things further away had a normal line. Have you tried this method? What did you think? You mentioned that the stippling made your drawing look flat. I think it looks fine. What direction is the light coming from in these drawings? Not being mean, just stuff to think about. You've really gotten good at drawering, ya prick.
Ryan Helfrick
Bottom right
Sharon Kaczorowski
Hard choice…love the Madame Cacti…as someone who had a tech writing and design business, it’s good to have an odd number of items in the drawing. Beautiful work. You’re hired!
TOLSH
Depends on the use case; for a banner logo I'd use top left but cut back the ground shadow the way you did with the bottom left. For something like screen printing or a physical sign, I'd pick bottom right but with heavier lines.
George Sagi
bottom right for balance & clarity
Bryan Peterson
Top left
Uncle Curse
I like the top left!
Zeebes
Looks like top left for the 🥇
Cynthia Adamson
While bottom left is a great drawing with the shading, that doesn't translate well to some applications- like screen-printed tees, so I would say right side ones are better. Maybe reconsider font sizes though. I think the adam and the acti should match.
Eric Wagner
Either of the top row. "Madam Cacti" is great, but I would make the letters the same size.
Jarel
Madam Cacti, but the “acti” should be same size font as “adam”.
Black Dragon Press
Bottom right reads best.
Ana Rita
I like the first picture✌️
Candice
Depends what's being done with it. If Madam Cacti has a website, she'll need something super simple for her favicon, for instance, but you could possibly simplify a single one of those flowers for that purpose, or anywhere else something needs to be tiny. For a header graphic type thing, I like #1, but I also dropped out of art school, so iunno
Hildegard von Bigass
Start from scratch, make drawing of fancy lady w barrel cactus head
Jeremy Tuler
Top left.
Lindsay Malone
Mostly because of the sharpness of the drawings. Not sure if it's problematic to omitt the cactus in the bottom right.
Lindsay Malone
Top left or bottom right.
Linus Lancaster
Top left. Bottom L for shrinking down. Beautiful drawings!
Adan Gallo
love em all, but to me the bottom right comes off as a clearer image to process
Jacob
Number 1 (pulled the trigger and finally signed up on the Patreon deals!)
Noah
The third one feels the most balanced as a thumbnail, which feels relevant for a logo.
Rebecca Hunter
Top left, ya. Spiffy
Dominique Frost
I like the top two. Text seems a little big compared to drawing but still real nice!
Sean Radcliffe
Top is #3 (bottom left), the shading looks good and adds some visual variety, esp. when seen at a smaller size. If there will be text, runner-up is #4 (bottom right)- could balance well beside it if the flowers are pointing away from the text.
Joe D'Arienzo
Top left. Then bot.left.
Kira Taylor
I like the level of contrast in the top left the most, but I also agree with Kevin's point about scaling.
Eric
Top left image
Kevin Krebs
if this is going to be printed, especially at smaller sizes (like business cards) I would say the 4th image is the way to go as it will scale down without losing as much detail
Stephanie Morse
Top left/first image.
Tyler Taylor
Bottom left/3rd image for me
Arianne Avery
I also like the first one (top left) the best
Landon
Bottom left rocks my socks
Malaki
Bottom left, I like the hoarier version.
Spooner
I like this simplicity of number four, maybe some pebbles in the background. But if not number four, number one.
Kyle Flaherty
3rd image
Corbin Rowland
Splitting hairs- they’re all good, but I think I like the first one the most
Autumn Teeter
Top left/first image
