[USIPS] Logo Design Collaboration

[CallmeCicada]

This is the closest, though I feel the rock is too detailed. I'm going to copy these posts to their own thread.

I don't get why you want the pose to be pushing with their back toward the rock. It just looks strange/awkward imo. It makes it look like he's trying to prevent the rock from rolling down rather than actually pushing it anywhere. If that's what you're going for that makes sense. But it just seems like you've mashed Atlus and Sisyphus together.

I just don't get it, sure it looks a little more dramatic, but it also looks wrong in a practical sense of how you would move a weight shaped like that.

 

[Null]

makes it look like he's trying to prevent the rock from rolling down rather than actually pushing it anywhere.

basically. first step is to stop rollback.

 

[Silver Coin Anon]

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I just don't get it, sure it looks a little more dramatic, but it also looks wrong in a practical sense -

Yeah, like that retard Lady Justice. Why is a blind woman holding a fucking scale and a sword? She can't see shit. Prisoners would just run away from her!

It's art. Stylized art. Stylized art meant to share an abstract concept: stopping the free and open Internet from becoming the internets and Null's personal, eternal struggle. How the fuck do you draw that in art while enforcing realism!? Do we draw a slightly chubby and wide eyed 30-something year old unshaven man grimacing at a computer with 500 unread e-mails about being debanked while a drunk slavic man is hanging off of a roof top installing a Starlink!?

Also I'm finally working on something. From here I'll be diverging from the other artist(s) using his and their art as my starting point and hopefully have my own competing design to give some diversity at the end.

 

[Okrey]

hi, here's my idea based on what i saw in the thread

 

[Taxidermied Rat]

So here is rework of my initial draft.

@Null, here is another render of the logo. I tried to ensure it was still legible at a smaller size.


Also here is the image with a round border, since @Silver Coin Anon mentioned some coins


Figured I would give it one more with an example with some rendering.

 

[Null]

That is very good. I think my only complaint is that the head looks like a scruffy hobo version of me, and the previous drafts of a more Greek statue look were more on point.

 

[Artificial Stupidity]

I'm literally just jumping in here but rather than pushing a rock would it make a little more sense to make it like a ball of ethernet wires/servers etc... ?

 

[Complete Reprobate]

So here is rework of my initial draft.

@Null, here is another render of the logo. I tried to ensure it was still legible at a smaller size.
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Also here is the image with a round border, since @Silver Coin Anon mentioned some coins
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Figured I would give it one more with an example with some rendering.

A clean shaven face would be easier to express in smaller formats, right?

That said, this is very clean, and I can tell exactly what's going on, even in miniature. Well done!

EDIT - Whenever straining against a load, the head curls up, not down. This enables more air to get sucked down your windpipe. Also looks more defiant, which would fit Null's endeavor well.

 

[Professional Noticer]

Also here is the image with a round border, since @Silver Coin Anon mentioned some coins
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Figured I would give it one more with an example with some rendering.

I'm not an artfag so I'm sorry if this doesn't make any sense but the shadow on the rock seems a bit weird to me because of how the guy is shadowed.

I made a very quick edit to show what I mean:

This is my understanding of the light source so maybe I'm missing something. (I'm not trying to shit on the design or anything, just trying to help).
I really know very little about drawing so if I'm just being stupid, just disregard me.

Other than that it looks great. I think it might be too detailed for a logo (if seen small it becomes messy) but the illustration is great.
Also I really like the circled one way better. It just looks a bit more classy. Everyone can still understand who he is and what the message is.

 

[Terfmaster9000]

I don't get why you want the pose to be pushing with their back toward the rock. It just looks strange/awkward imo. It makes it look like he's trying to prevent the rock from rolling down rather than actually pushing it anywhere. If that's what you're going for that makes sense. But it just seems like you've mashed Atlus and Sisyphus together.

I just don't get it, sure it looks a little more dramatic, but it also looks wrong in a practical sense of how you would move a weight shaped like that.

Have you ever pushed a very heavy object? I have. You lean your back to it and you push with your legs because that is the easiest way to do push something heavy. Go try to push a car, tell me whether you do face it, or leaning your back to it.

Yeah, like that retard Lady Justice. Why is a blind woman holding a fucking scale and a sword? She can't see shit. Prisoners would just run away from her!

It's art. Stylized art. Stylized art meant to share an abstract concept: stopping the free and open Internet from becoming the internets and Null's personal, eternal struggle. How the fuck do you draw that in art while enforcing realism!? Do we draw a slightly chubby and wide eyed 30-something year old unshaven man grimacing at a computer with 500 unread e-mails about being debanked while a drunk slavic man is hanging off of a roof top installing a Starlink!?

Also I'm finally working on something. From here I'll be diverging from the other artist(s) using his and their art as my starting point and hopefully have my own competing design to give some diversity at the end.

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If you are open to advice, I think the entire back needs to be pressed against the boulder, not just the upper back and neck. I mean pushing with your neck would be ineficcient and painful. And I think it makes the drawings look "off".

 

[niggernomicon]

Hurry up and finish so I can 'jak it

 

[Rain Team Pepe]

basically. first step is to stop rollback.

The rollback sensation comes from the figure facing away from the boulder, as well as: the boulder looking like it's pushing the figure from the right towards the left.
That goes against default reading direction.
As long as it looks like the boulder is winning, flipping it won't stop that sensation. It's built into the gesture of the body.


If the figure pushes like in the picture example, he will instantly feel in control, though it would need to push up-hill)

This solution may not fit the current design parameters so it may not be useful.

I like the classic look of the sketches.

 

[BigGuyOS 6 : Jovial Janny]

For that just use a silhouette of the logo without any of the details, just solid black.

If you want a classic 1900-1910 illustration look, there are very silhouette and solid black, with the flow of the hatching adding depth and definition.

 

[Silver Coin Anon]

I'm trying to fit everything inside a potential logo (and mintable design) before I go trying to finalize his body proportions and the like.

I think a burning hot sun is an interesting concept (a rising sun is usually a symbol of peace and prosperity in coinage but I like the two-edged sword of a burning hot sun) but I am also considering a moon (for subtle reasons).

Anybody have any ideas or comments less-so on any exact anatomy or drawing techniques but more-so how to arrange design elements in a round logo and also the style/positioning of a celestial body in the logo? I tried to make the one in the bottom right steeper to give a more crushing feel and the sun is also now aligned on a horizontal plane with the boulder which is quite nice. I assume 2025 will be the founding year.

 

[Taxidermied Rat]

I think my only complaint is that the head looks like a scruffy hobo version of me, and the previous drafts of a more Greek statue look were more on point.

How's this?

 

[dick brain]

 

[BigGuyOS 6 : Jovial Janny]

I'm trying to fit everything inside a potential logo (and mintable design) before I go trying to finalize his body proportions and the like.

I think a burning hot sun is an interesting concept (a rising sun is usually a symbol of peace and prosperity in coinage but I like the two-edged sword of a burning hot sun) but I am also considering a moon (for subtle reasons).

Anybody have any ideas or comments less-so on any exact anatomy or drawing techniques but more-so how to arrange design elements in a round logo and also the style/positioning of a celestial body in the logo? I tried to make the one in the bottom right steeper to give a more crushing feel and the sun is also now aligned on a horizontal plane with the boulder which is quite nice. I assume 2025 will be the founding year.

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I like your design! The sharp Greco-Roman angles are great, and I like the one on the right where it looks like the Sun is setting and the cliff is steeper. Regarding seals and circular logos, most typically have a separate boarder that surrounds all, or most of it— even if it's just a thin black line. I think it makes it more readable as a circle or seal especially when color is otherwise used to create the circle.

 

[Silver Coin Anon]

-Snip-

That's just a reference. Generally speaking, I try to make the logo compatible with a standard 1.6" diameter silver dollar where the field is 1.5" in diameter. Blank die below. I don't use fancy AI tools, I literally eventually overlay the image on a surface and manually use Blender (May Allah Forgive me) to add primitives to the surface, morph and slice them to add the proper surface geometry, then use the sculpting tools to make a "positive" or the model as it appears on a coin. I then render a height map and use that to generate a negative onto the die surface before milling it on my CNC. Polish, fine engrave, carburize and harden, polish, sandblast the relief for the frosting, polish the field to 0.25micron, and mint on my 100T press. A bit ambitious but I can uuuusually get a full strike in any soft metal. I would share images of my set-up but I never can because those are on my webzone and I don't want square faced trannies having girl-talks with my grandma about my coins.

 

[Thomas Matthew Crooks]

do this

 

[Magicat]

So here is rework of my initial draft.

@Null, here is another render of the logo. I tried to ensure it was still legible at a smaller size.
View attachment 6811151

Also here is the image with a round border, since @Silver Coin Anon mentioned some coins
View attachment 6811142

Figured I would give it one more with an example with some rendering.

Alright, I can't unsee this. It kind of looks like the guy's on a branch of a great tree. Particularly in the first picture. The grains resemble the type seen within a tree.

But I'm doubting myself because people like it.