Today, I joined a contest, this contest is like.. Very very big like, super duper big, and you know go big or go home kinda big. I am excited to join this because it's such a fun thing to design a logo or something.

So I brainstormed the designs in my mind, but none never clicked with the "slick" or "clean" designs of things, since most modern places have more clean designs. The more I preasured myself to do it the more I'm intimidated with the slick design and stuff because I am NOT a guy who does simple stuff. I over complicate things ALOT, in drawing, and in real life LEL. I guess it just flows from my personalitty.

And with that said I have became even more like "o h no- what to do" and then after that I have read a comment from @coinsandchains

And for that I'll just try to.. Chillax a bit, like don't pressure myself and just be myself and yknow what? There's no rules to have overcomplicated stuff, why am I overthinking this?! Coins is right maybe, I shouldn't try to pressure myself, but pressuring myself sometimes got me more into drawing and forcing myself to it. So it's all in a grey area! :0

I think we all should just try to find a balance of it, we can't completely burn ourself out we'll hate drawing completely! But at the same time I hate being lazy. So the right balance is probably what I need to find.

By the way coins, and everyone especially u spooder thilah and scrawly u know who u are 👀👀 thanks for the comments! Without yall I don't think I'd able to actually pull through this LEL

Now .. I gotta figure out the ninja part, but that gives me an idea of japanese stuff logo, and sure it's centered around the color yellow, well I'll give it to them MWAHAHAHAH HERES YELLOW FOR YOU FOLKS.

I like the restrictions, I find it weird why they chose ninjas for "talented individuals" I thought it's because of that fortnite streamer LOL, but I'm not gonna complain to be honest hehe.

P-Progress?!?!

So anywayss I've made 2 versions, normal version, and night mode just for shits and giggles! Let's start off with the normal mode.

First off, we need to do the.. You guessed it. The sketch, how predictable I am.

I guess I was just going for my gut ya know what im sayin, I hid the lil ninja behind the D because that's what ninjas do right? Being ninjas as a hired assasin and stuff.

Then I do the lineart nothing to say but just making the lineart look soft

Then I colored it with flat shadin

Then finally the magic happens..

Blending layer multiply and blending layer Add.

Adding details such as:

• refining the sky that looks like a drama stage
• refining the out lines of "DLive"
• adding vines
• detail to waterfall
• light at the bottom of the floating island

I started to

• get rid of that one vine on that L
• Dlive getting their roots to the ground, saying that their talent is rooting and growing on the small island
• adding grasses and refinning the bushes

I started to try to make the water look atleast decent, and makin sone finishing touches aaandd

FINISHED!!

And there we go UwU we have ourselves our shiny new bright Logo

And now for the night mode!

P-p rogress number 2?!?!

Alright so it might be weird buuuut I started off with the normal picture and then I have color corrected it to make it bright as hell to make it seem like its day time.

Then adding

• stone like structures to the DLIVE
• making it shadow-ish
• and adding the YELLOW sky

Then adding shadows using the multiply layer and trying to fix that weird waterfall, and add and night sky on the white thing. And instead of the roots, it all turned to cracks on the ground.

Andddd

FINISHED!!

We finish it off to a night version, yeah you may find it ironic that the day time is night mode but hey, I find it balancing, like yin and yang. We all gotta find balance into our world.

But ya know I'm not even sure if I'll win so why bother LOL im just doing this cuz why not and its fun too..

And money ofcourse duh, I want a PC XD I'm still drawing with a phone so yeeep

I had fun drawing this and I hope you had fun reading it! :D

Anywayss see ya next time folks and sweet nightmares!