Drawings wont cut it

Start of a new day

After much deliberation of what the game should be based on, I finally decided to settle onto aliens, as this would give a greater artistic freedom when it comes to designing logos and laying out the image for the front cover.

From here I decided to continue working on paper to try and draw an initial concept of the front cover of what I could see in my head

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As you can see, I am no artist but the general concept was there. So the sleeve was decided, it was now time to decide what to do with the logo. After too many hours of initial research, I came across a concept called negative space, in which an image is shown within the white space through clever design like this one below:

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So now comes the long process of trying to design a really clever logo.

I really am no artist

So I sit here staring at hundreds of different negative space logos thinking "how did they figure it out" expecting a eureka moment to strike me.

It didn't.

So I start scrolling through the thousands of YouTube videos on how do design a logo in the hopes to get some sort of inspiration to design a logo.

I gave up.

So after about 30 minutes of pacing, quiet mumbling to myself with the kids thinking, daddy has finally lost it, I decided to start drawing some sketches to see if anything I drew could be turned or combined into a negative space logo.

This is what I got:

First set of  ideas

Second set of ideas

Not pretty but I started to get something. In the first set I was thinking of words that can be shaped to look like animals and thought of dog. Dog didn't seem that easy so I started to go with the word pup but got nowhere. But that idea made me think of shark. That idea didn't seem to work either so I then thought why not make a word fit into the shape of an animal and use that as a logo.

Boom Shark was born....... and put on a shelf

So I had decided on a logo that would have used negative space in some aspect. It was going to be the word Boom in the shape of a shark. But I wasn't happy, again, and decided to put it to one side.

The problem being (Aside from being very self judgemental and expecting nothing less than the best from myself) was that through the initial research it became very apparent that the font type played a big part in editing and this would also be a key issue in my logo too.

So I started to consider other logo designs and I came across a video on YouTube where person created a 3d cube and took parts of it out to make a really cool looking logo seen below:

But I wanted to make something clever, like this but actually able to read some sort of text as well. So I started to think of how can I use the 3d cubes and make some wording appear in them too? It was at this point I was inches away from head butting the desk due to a combination of extreme work load, late nights, early mornings and non stop kids and thought it may be a good idea to go to bed.