Stencils

[tugrik]

Spending the day on DayQuil means everything is a little distant, a little fluffy. It's not so bad. I saw LOTR:TTT with the parents, napped a bit while listening to the wonderful rain and went out to eat at the Aqui Grill with chipotle. The day's outings finished off by going to the grocery store for catfood.

Somewhere after that, while enjoying some of Chipotle's excellent homemade mexican hot cocoa (mmMMmmm...), I decided I was light-headed enough to actually pick up the tablet and scribble. I really want an iconic-logo to put on those pesky Pelican cases and maybe use for other things. After about a half-hour of scribbling in Photoshop I was really frustrated. I have zero art talent, you see.

I stuck with it, though, and a few scribbles later I came up with this:


Ugh. But, hey... it met the requirements. It won't be confused for any existing corporate logo I know of. It's somewhat unique. It's simplistic and can be made into a stencil. It's personal enough that it's definately related to me, while general/plain enough that it's not out of place as a silly little logo. Cleaning up the design is kind of against the purpose. Instead I just thickened the lines a little more, did a half-inversing (thanks for the suggestion, storm_dragon!), and added the little cuts/breaks necessary for a stencil to stay in one piece. It ended up looking like this:




To test it, I printed it out at the desired size (about 4.5" square) and took an X-acto knife to it. I cut out all the white parts, as the cases are carbon-black and I'll be using Krylon (or similar) white paint to spray the stencils on. The paper-cutout test looked wonderful, and held together well! It's too weak to use for spraying anything, though. Tomorrow I'll go get a hefty cardstock and a much nicer X-acto blade and make the stencil proper. I'll probably try to bribe reality_fox with munchies to help me pick out the right paints and teach me how to use them. I suck at spray-cans; I always end up making them get all runny or not even.

I'll probably do a little overspray for fun. Slight un-evenness and little speckly extra-off-the-margins just makes it look all the more utilitarian. I kind of like that.

Honestly, I'm amazed that I've gotten this far with anything even semi-artistic. I blame the DayQuil.

Comments

[paka.livejournal.com]

I still really like it. I guess because of the rough-pen-scribble look to it, and the half-black-half-white idea -- I really like that.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Looks good! You must have some good graphic design sense in there. ('gryn)

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

That's GREAT.

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

I really want an iconic-logo to put on those pesky Pelican cases and maybe use for other things.

Oh, sure... it's not at all meant for stencil-bombing the town, not at all!

:)

[tugrik.livejournal.com]

Andre the Giant may have a posse, but I've got a grumpy monoceros. Time to stake some turf. *looks innocent*

and I won't even put 'OBEY' on mine

[brahma-minotaur.livejournal.com]

Between grumpy monoceroses (is that plural?) and stern minotaurs, I would feel sorry for anyone who crossed our paths, Tugrik.