Brand Me - Logo

Creating my Logo was something I got started on very early on in this brief, because I didn't want it to drag out for longer than it needed to.  To start with, I was very unsure about what direction to take with this because as somebody who has a particular interest in character design, I didn't know weather or not to create myself in character form. However I don't have a particular style so this made the whole process much more difficult. However after much sketching and frustration, one of my house mates very wisely pointed out the possibility of just focusing on my main features. She said that these would be my hair, eyebrows and glasses. I decided to create something quite simple that could be  then incorporated into an ident later. 

This first example above, was drawn in photoshop. I used kept the background a cream colour so that it would work with the colour scheme of my hair. I take great pride in my eyebrows, so the pressure was on! I decided to colour the hair realistically, so this took a while, but the over all aim was to keep it quite simple and not too complex. That way it would be easily remembered and the emphasis was put on the features that represent me. 

After some further development in terms of ident, I decided to alter the colour scheme for my logo, to make everything more consistent. The background would stay pretty much the same, however Everything else would be a teal colour. Firstly, because this is my favourite colour, but more importantly, I have always found this colour to be very gender neutral, and I didn't think the original colour scheme was.  

Updated Version 

In order to save having to draw this out all over again, I simply played around with the colour levels in Photoshop and this did the trick quickly. I really wanted to keep this image as part of my main logo and ident, so I created a range of potential designs. This version above is now my profile picture on all my social media, because I wanted it to become recognisable and consistent. 

I decided to also create some version with just the glasses. As much as I loved these, myself and my tutor thought that just having the glasses and eyebrows could potentially look a little too masculine. Also, I much preferred having the full head and hair incorporated into the design. 

I knew that I needed to have more than one version of my final logo, so that it could be appropriate for different purposes such as showreels, profile pictures and header photos. 

After getting some different opinions, I decided that the image below would be my final, full logo. I preferred this one as did a lot of the people I asked. This version is one that would go at the start of showreels, on business cards, or at the end of my own animations. 

I also created a more abbreviated version, I am unsure exactly where I would use this version, however I figured it would be wise to have it!

For the time being, the version below is being used for header photos, however I do plan to produce some new work that can be used as the same header photo though out all of my social media, to keep consistency. The text, is actually something I jotted down whilst experimenting and actually really liked the result. So I decided to keep it and use it as my main text for the name.