[USIPS] Logo Design Collaboration

[Null]

do you mean more shades of gray or more contrast
i can set color of any of segments if needed

outlines with no background

 

[DefinitelyNotMe]

did a quick thing in paint
like this?

Spoiler: also auto trace options

number is a "detail" setting and then method
for now i put it at 30 but i can increase it and manually paint segments black
arm is disappearing sometimes but i can fix it later

 

[Silver Coin Anon]

Mount Rushmore was the closest thing I could think of, but here are a bunch of different people's try on simplified vector versions of it. Kimda shows the general line shapes that may be used.

 

[Silver Coin Anon]

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A little test piece. I think your art vectors out very well!

 

[I'm a Silly]

@Null Here's 2 joke versions
View attachment 6660109View attachment 6660110

 

[Null]

did a quick thing in paint
like this?

Yes. Try to clean the lines up as much as possible so it looks good as letter head and envelope markings. It's getting very good.

The final touch would be an SVG version with some engraving lines for depth. Not much, just some sketchiness

 

[Sneedfully and Peacefully]

I'm not that artistic (just autistic like everyone else) so I can't contribute much but I love it when communities come together like this. It's neat to see something like a logo come together that I can picture being on a letterhead slapped on a politician's desk.

Godsneed kiwis.

 

[DefinitelyNotMe]

Yes. Try to clean the lines up as much as possible so it looks good as letter head and envelope markings. It's getting very good.

The final touch would be an SVG version with some engraving lines for depth. Not much, just some sketchiness

Did inking so the tracing would be less retarded
Do you want right side of the body completely dark is it fine like this
and the first attempt with the rock

 

[DefinitelyNotMe]

Did inking so the tracing would be less retarded
Do you want right side of the body completely dark is it fine like this
and the first attempt with the rock

Or alternatively i can add engraving lines to make it in half shade

 

[Silver Coin Anon]

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I'll make something after work (especially some suggestions for how to do engraving-type lines on this), but my one suggestion is to make his outer profile smoother and simpler and save the broader muscle details for the inside. Imagine a very smooth and curvy outer profile over his entire body.

So try to draw, for example, his shin/calf/hamstrings/biceps and triceps with a smoother single curved poly stroke. The human eye views hard curved lines as a peak contrast. It kind of hacks the baby part of our brain (one of the reasons kids like black line high contrast cartoons) because our brains first learned to see depth contrast between sharp lines before anything else. It makes the figure POP to our brain and seem whole despite being smoother. Kind of a contradiction but it works.

 

[DefinitelyNotMe]

I'll make something after work (especially some suggestions for how to do engraving-type lines on this), but my one suggestion is to make his outer profile smoother and simpler and save the broader muscle details for the inside. Imagine a very smooth and curvy outer profile over his entire body.

So try to draw, for example, his shin/calf/hamstrings/biceps and triceps with a smoother single curved poly stroke. The human eye views hard curved lines as a peak contrast. It kind of hacks the baby part of our brain (one of the reasons kids like black line high contrast cartoons) because our brains first learned to see depth contrast between sharp lines before anything else. It makes the figure POP to our brain and seem whole despite being smoother. Kind of a contradiction but it works.

put more effort into engraving
but i would need to do it manually in the Corel because it doesnt pick up finer detail as good

 

[Silver Coin Anon]

Yeah, put more effort into engraving

That's the right direction, I think. The devil is in the details and perfecting the engraver's hatching will end up being 99% of the work - but we'll get there!

 

[DefinitelyNotMe]

That's the right direction, I think. The devil is in the details and perfecting the engraver's hatching will end up being 99% of the work - but we'll get there!

I'm just afraid of doing it too fine because we need to worry about small sizes.
but then again, the art of the bills looks even finer
But the quality of the printers is non comparable

 

[Silver Coin Anon]

I'm just afraid of doing it too fine

I made a proposition for a simplified version with smoother profile - basically a pre engraving version. This is moreso a quick proposition for the lining style but I did make a few adjustments.



Some of the anatomy (I just adjust things by eye after flipping the canvas horizontally over and over until my brain likes it) and the sack pants/wrap are REALLY hard to visualize but I tried. His head might need to be larger and my hand is a bit garbo and the arm may be too long and rear leg too small given the perspective.

 

[I'm a Silly]

comedy break

 

[DefinitelyNotMe]

Second attmept at engraving
Suggestions?

 

[Silver Coin Anon]

Second attmept at engraving
Suggestions?

Hmmm... I like the straight line method more than I thought I would! I've seen old American industrial companies use similar straight-line engraving methods on letterheads back before they all closed down and got shipped to China. Maybe a more complex curvy windy engraving method isn't needed, this straight method does seem to fit the "feel" of the scene?

 

[DefinitelyNotMe]

todays progress
shit is meticulous
probably finish tomorrow

 

[DefinitelyNotMe]

did 2 versions
darker one and 50% less shadow
which one?
edit done with the rock

@Null what do you think?
I don't really know what else to add other then maybe rework head a bit

 

[Silver Coin Anon]

did 2 versions
darker one and 50% less shadow
which one?
edit done with the rock

Once Jersh issues an opinion on your pieces perhaps it'd be worthwhile to have a little informal open invite showing where people submit their own versions based on that work? I've been working on something of my own based on your work but would like to see what he thinks about the straight-line technique. I will try a curve line method just to have more options if he is ambivalent on it.