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tugrikSpending 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 ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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 bribereality_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.
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.
