PENCIL: Logo Design for LaoKicks.com
As always, I started an art project that I thought would take a few hours to a day, but lasted all week. This is my first HIVE only post. I tried using Hive.blog, but it never wanted to upload images. When you post something through TravelFeed.io, it posts to both, so I've just been doing that. I like this Peakd.com, so let's see how it goes...
I paid five dollars for an artist to do this for us in Fiverr, but we didn't like it. My first time using Fiverr was a positive experience. The artist revised it three times. I eventually felt sorry for him and just gave up and used this as our logo. The owner said it won't fly because the cops won't like the flag and he didn't want to associate with just football, soccer for you Yanks, fans.
I choose a 😎 cool looking font on Procreate, turned the iPad's brightness to max, and traced.
I don't know his name, but he's a great swimmer and drawing protector.
Feiner has been a great friend and model. He may be a street dog, but he knows everyone and has helped my posts make some cash this week. I should've been using him to pose two years ago. I thought about using this as the cover photo, but didn't want him to be like a creative crutch.
I went back to the digital drawing and just went wild. I erased all my pencil work, but the pencil was important because it was when I had the best idea of making the, s, into a snake.
I should be ashamed that I didn't know until today how to draw a straight line in Procreate. It doesn't matter how squiggly you draw the line as long as you hold down for a second it will straighten automatically. Circles and squares are the same. If you hold your other finger down, it will make perfect angles and shapes too.
I was so frustrated that I almost threw in the towel and was going to just use this, but that would be boring and a logo should have some artistic manipulation of at least one letter.
I'm exhausted with this. I know the snake could be better, but I quit. I'll just send this to another artist on Fiverr and animate it so the snake looks badass and his tongue goes in and out. Maybe I'll add some fire too. What do you think? My site, https://LaoKicks.com, should have the logo up now. Thanks for going through this artistic journey with me. Happy 4/20 day!