Pattern Creation

I made this pattern using the third tutorial. The base pattern is at the top, and the square is filled with the pattern swatch. I like the flowing lines of the pattern, but the low quality of the image (the source for Live Trace was a .jpeg) really bothers me. I think the gold and white look nice together.

Foundation Logo

These are some of my variations of the Character Integrity Accountability logo for the College Station Foundation. I tried to make the logo look similar to an official stamp, so I included both red and maroon versions. I also included desaturated versions of each variation and shrank the logos down to what I hope is near a business card size. My favorite variations are Groups 2 and 4 because I believe that the retained their legibility when shrunk and they are the simplest and therefore easiest to read and recognize.

Business Card

This is the front and back of my business card using the logos from the previous post. I like the blue gradient color scheme because it feels cool and looks nice with the silver of the logo, and I feel like the silver/blue combination makes it look more professional. I added the shapes on the back using a clipping mask and overlay because I wanted to draw attention to the middle of the card and separate my personal information from the company's information.

Personal Logo Creation

These are the three versions of my personal logo (I tried to scale the smaller images to about 1/4 inch, but I'm not sure if the sizing is right). I don't know why, but on Blogger right now the images seem a bit grainy. Both images are greyscaled because I couldn't find a color scheme that I liked, but if you have any suggestions please tell me :)

More Logo Art

I chose to use this tutorial because I liked the organic lines and color scheme of the design, as well as the small details such as the water droplets and the soil. Creating the correct gradients for the leaves and the ladybug was difficult because the gradients add a more realistic effect, and the wrong colors or angle change the look of the image. However, I did like applying the vine effect to the main text.

Mesh Art

I based my color scheme off of some of the color schemes on kuler. My quote is from "Heart of the Ocean" by Gaelic Storm and I used darken and a dark gray color for the words to match the background gradient. I'm not completely happy with the font, but I couldn't find one that I liked better than this one. I also followed the tutorial's suggestion to make the image landscape instead of portrait. I used the Crystallize tool on Illustrator to create all the spiky shapes between the overlapping layers, which I think adds texture to the image. I also used the Flare tool just for fun :)

Logo Creation

This is my completed image from the logo creation tutorial. I like the way the letters were all based on circles because that made the shapes easier to work with, although I had some trouble with the layering of the images. I was eventually able to fix most of the layering problems and I found colors that were fairly close to the ones used in the tutorial.