I am an aspiring artist and am making an attempt to create a private emblem, I might wish to know what you guys suppose and what I can do to enhance it. Thanks 🙂
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I am an aspiring artist and am making an attempt to create a private emblem, I might wish to know what you guys suppose and what I can do to enhance it. Thanks 🙂
I love it overall. It’s quirky, fun, and very interesting. The font is really bubbly and I can see your personality.
Visually there’s something off for me with the mouth of the cat. I see a goatee, a fox, a neck tie line. Is it supposed to the be the dot on the i, for Caio? it took me a couple of looks to see that it was teefies.
It does seem a bit heavy on the right side, so it’s a bit out of balance. The bottom font, is a bit bleh compared to the overall fun above. I don’t think you need that much kerning. If you explore more on it, maybe keep the kerning but explore other fonts.
Keep the cat butt X, hahaha I think its hilarious. It reminds of that Australian motion graphic designer that his logo reveal has a bat’s butt. I didn’t see the cat butt, I just thought it was a neat cartoony look, like the Xs on ears.
I’m not a professional by any means, but I think this is wonderful! My only complaint is that it feels weighted too far to the right.
I think I’d remove the “X” in the a… it makes me think of cartoon cat buttholes. Maybe that’s what you’re going for, but if so I’d leave the anus off haha
Shrunk to about an inch and lower, the brush/tail starts to lose clarity. You may want a version for small sizes that is less detailed.
The detail on the brush is sharp as well, which breaks the continuity with the rest of the mark. The type is great tho!
I made some adjustments:
https://imgur.com/a/VAtzmGg
Brasileiro?
The concept is neat but there are a few issues…
The typography at the bottom needs work. I would reconsider the font and color choice for that. Especially on the light blue background, there is almost no contrast and you can hardly see the text at all.
The border feels unnecessary and the gritty/textured effect doesn’t match the rest of your illustration.
The weight of some of your letting in the main logo is inconsistent. The bottoms of the “S” and “C” look really lumpy and sloppy compared to the other letters. Especially if you are trying to sell yourself as an illustrator, I would put a lot more time into your lettering.
Lastly, how will this look at a small size? On a mobile phone, for example, most of the details will get lost. The thin lines on the cat will probably merge together visually and just make a mess. Simplicity is your friend, lose the unnecessary stuff and clean up what’s left.
Hey Caio. Nome do meu bebê!
So, I love the overall concept and styling.
Could you figure out a way to connect the L in Silva with the swash? I feel like it would be more visually pleasing instead of so many breaks.
As someone else also said, try making the S a little more rounded and smooth. You added some squared corners there and there’s nothing else in the logo that unifies with it.
It’s cool. Only a few things that I think could be quick tweaks:The yellow on light blue isnt a very flattering pairing for legibility.
The details of the paint brush at smaller scales are lost and don’t feel like they follow the thicker fonts aesthetic. I’d try versions where you make the cuts thicker so the brush piece is more visible.
Your bottom margin and your left/right for the text aren’t the same. I’d reduce the letter spacing or try a different font. It just feels like it’s awkwardly been spread but not enough to be an aesthetic choice.
The name font is great for being playful as an artist and imitating brush strokes with varying widths throughout. That style isnt carried over into the cat illustration or your borders so it feels like there’s 3 brush styles throwing off the cohesiveness a bit.
Lastly I’d try using the dark blue with the red logo & red back. Blue & Red can work really nicely together when thought out and comes across more playful than black.
Edit: The bottom of the S feels flat like it was forced to fit a square shape. I’d consider having it properly curve down further and coming back up into the brush head. Can use a large bottomed S to counter balance the top right cat.
From my limited design experience, and for whatever you decide on. Take it to an embroidery shop and see what it will look like sized for a hat or shirt. Small details get lost and there are limited thread colors. If you or a client ever want schwag or marketing gear in general think about how it will look small. On a pen for example.
Don’t design for the billboard, design for a tie tack.
I always say look at McDonald’s arches, or the Nike swish as the gold standard in logo design and work from there.
Again, I have only dabbled in design work. Just my philosphy.
I’m making this logo to share on social media and use on my works, I’m a big cat person so I tried incorporating this character I have and use as my profile picture, and also the brush tip as I work with digital drawings. I’m using a 100% free font called “Milky Honey” with some minor adjustments. Also used the infinite sign for no particular reason I just like it lol.
Bag it, tag it, slap in on a bingbong! It is good to go, not the top right one though. Bottom left and bottom right are ready to go, as they both have a strong presence and usefulness depending on a situation with a prospective client. The red will attract aggressive motivated individuals and the blue one will attract helpful professional industry.
the bottom of the S is confusing its weight/gravity
curves of the decorative swirl dont match the weight of the text
fox linework too thin
yellow on blue unreadable
consider changing lower text to illustrator/designer or similar or just your contact/social tag
IDK but I think it’s weird that the brush is that precise when the rest is simpler
Its great! I’d simplify the details on the tail “brush” end of the S and the nose of the fox. Imagine if your logo was only a .75″ x .75″ sticker , those details would be hard to distinguish. Same for “logo design- illustrations” text. Is this necessary? Or You can use “designs” or just “Illustrations” and have a bigger font justified with the logo.
Looks super cool a student in graphic design myself though I was a little confused if it was a bat or a fox at the top right I love the font style too and how it all flows together
The tough thing seeing in the perspective as both an illustrator and designer is how some things could be legibly seen when sized up or down.
The main critique/concern is how smaller, thin detail like those empty spaces on the brush/tail along the bristles would look when down sized say if it were to be utilized on stickers or on smaller packaging, etc.
Likewise the face Id argue might be nicer if you thickened it up more since it’s easy to lose quality as your size down.
Otherwise the typography looks good from my perspective, though I’m not a pro at typography, granted, at least when it comes the drawn side, that’s my perspective from what looks good and might need adjustment.
Scrolling past quick I read this as Cat Saliva
Most things have been said already, and i agree with the general sentiment that this is AWESOME, but i think the “solution” for the mouth is to turn it into a nose! That’s what i saw it at first as anyways and it would make way more sense with the whiskers. Just remove the teeth, keep a similar shape. Still, solid, solid work.
I wonder how many people will get the “a” 😅👍
r/suddenlycaralho
Tá dahora mano curti o trampo!
Looks great. I love the text. However; I’d ditch the cat, and the brush. They are unnecessary gimmicks and won’t work at smaller sizes. The text and the ‘x’ in the A are visual signifiers here. Maybe even out the height of the ‘aio’ compared to the ‘C’ as well. But overall this has a nice, distinctive and well rounded look and feel.
I like the text, not sure about the cat. I would lose the cat completely, and the cross and the tail and just balance the text a bit and leave it like that.
Looks really good! But I think it would be good to see your portfolio as well, to see if it makes sense with your workstyle.
Nice! I like the bottom red one
I absolutely adore it! Great work.
Looks good, but is that a fox, owl, or cat?
This is already looking amazing., only thing I would do for my version would be combining L with the lower swoosh and also fixing the S painting brush and making the cat little big n less detailed, so when it is used in the work With like 7% of this size it can be clearly visible.
The nose/mouth part is hard for me to focus on. At first I thought it was just a fox nose but then it switches to a little vampire bat mouth, maybe tweak that a bit. I like it though it has a playful style to it
I would get rid of the swoosh under your last name, but I would loop the S swoosh under so it comes out on the same side as the cat, and can double as a cat tail or brush.
I’d simplify the end of the swoosh to a cleaner point.
I like everything with this and I think you’ve done very well — the only feedback I have is that the details on the brush (hairs plus the “fastening”) are a little too fine, especially since those thin lines aren’t picked up anywhere else in the logo. There’s a loss of balance as a result. I don’t think you should make it into one big shape either (I saw someone else suggest this), if you do that you lose the idea of it being a brush. I think maybe keep one negative space strand in the brush, just like a lil “chip” to suggest the brush, and then a simple neg. space line between the brush and the rest. With both of these details, keep in mind the thickness of the spaces not being too thin. Does this make sense?
Other than that, it’s a super fun logo with a lot of personality and great shapes and movement in it over all!
I’m also not a great designer… But one gentle suggestion: Can you design large S which already consists half part as c (might be your half s with different colour which may emboss like c)? This will probably impact in much more innovative way.
i’m more a fan of the red and black colour combo, it makes the yellow easier to read. my favorite is the top left; black on red. it just shows the fox face better at first glance.
i like how fun the design is, it definitely represents a bubbly and easy going personality which is great.
a lot of people are saying it’s weight too far to the right but because the capital C and S are bold and larger i think the weighs out nicely. i would feel like something was missing if the ‘head’ wasn’t to the right.
quick note tho; i am not a professional at all, this is just all my opinion <3
Lettering is nice but line thickness is seems way off on cat or whatever that animal is. I would simplify cat with thicker lines to match overall look and feel.
Funny and personal. But you should check for readability with a reduction of at least 70℅. Mist complex ir decorative fancy details could spoil thecartwirk if reduced or saw from distance.
I genuinely love it as it is, except for maybe the tail/brush – it needs to be smoother with a bit thicker on the white strokes in between. Otherwise, awesome work (and please keep the cool swirl beneath the text!)
I love it! I have a cat for my logo also … The only thing I might say is, the lines on the glasses sort of give an obtuse vibe with the more ovate eyes above … Hard to tell if it’s reflection, eye or brows. I think it looks great though, so that is not meant to be bad or anything. Very nice design, looks organic or analog for want of a better term. A rarity these days.
I love it… Just need balance ⚖️
As a fellow graphic designer the standard Illustrator grungy lines are something I immediately notice, I’d say it’s ok to use them for other jobs but I wouldn’t use them to present yourself as a designer
I love it. My only complaint is the paintbrush n the s is so many fine details when the rest is thicker and bolder line strokes so it doesn’t feel like it matches the rest of the aesthetic. I think it’s also already so connected you don’t need it. I’d remove that part on the S and then I think it’s pretty perfect!
Nobody really cares about an artists logo tbh. Focus on your art and explore more mediums.
Looks really good!