My biggest problem in this project is me

More doodles.....

One of my biggest flaws is that I am never happy and another of many is that I have a tendency to run before I can crawl. Both have happened while working on the project.

I have spent hours looking at negative design logos, searching YouTube and searching the web for inspiration, I came up with nothing which ultimately annoyed me after hours of research. So it was at this point where I started to go through the Adobe Illustrator classroom in a book.

A lot of the information in the first few chapters were covering basics and bored me easily, which caused me to lose interest quickly and try to get on with the project with minimal knowledge. That didn't go well either.

So after sitting in my comfy recliner for days mulling over how little time there was and how I had no idea what to do, I decided to start doodling ideas for the logo, which was a nightmare in itself.

Concepts, concepts and...... oh yeah, more concepts

I still intended to work with the 3 cube idea and mask something on top to go with the perspective of the cube. So the first idea was to use text as in theory that is what would have been the easiest to map to the cubes sides.

First design

As you can see, I was trying for an 8-bit text with each side having a letter and potentially removing the cube so the letters are free floating. But my drawing skills are poor and it didn't tick enough boxes for the minimum requirements for the assignment.

Second design

The second design I was trying to create a pattern that could be 3-d without the cubes but give a clever optical illusion of going behind itself. Unfortunately, my drawing skills were not up to scratch and ultimately made me pass on this design.

Third design

With this design I was still wanting to try and use letters for the logo with some text below the logo with the company name, but this design was dependant on the letters and their ability to be wrapped around the cube. But alas, I was still not happy.

Fourth design

This design was an epiphany of sorts. I was trying to think an object or a thing that could easily be put on to three cubes. Luckily, I have been playing Disney infinity 2.0 with my eldest daughter and saw Captain America, thought of Hydra and then thought of the Greek variation of it.

It could work, the hydra had three heads which could easily be put onto each cube and I could make a fake company name with the word Hydra in it and make the letter y look like a hydra. It was perfect except for one fatal flaw, me. There is no way I could draw a Hydra head similar to the picture below.

Yeah.....no

So as a result this was a resounding no, but I was on the right path.

Fifth design

The next idea was Cerberus the three headed dog from Greek mythology. It looked more like a damn bat than a dog so I knocked this one on the head too.

Sixth design

Sound the fan-fair, for I finally decided on a logo. The logo was going to be based on the 3 most powerful gods of Greek mythology, Zeus, Poseidon and Hades.
The faces wouldn't require a massive amount of details like the Hydra or Cerberus designs. The figures were instantly recognisable to pretty much anyone and the company logo could just be the word Olympus in a golden colour with clouds in appearing in the word with some sort of sun rays/glare.
The only thing I had to make sure was that all of the figures were proportionate to each other as Hades seemed smaller that the other two figures.

I can finally start using illustrator again

So I decided earlier that it would be easier to trace the image than try to free style the figures onto the cubes. So what I had to was place an image in the document and then make it a trace image and make sure I selected outlines with source image otherwise the cubes could not bee seen. With the image placed I had to resize the image to get it perfectly laying over the three cubes. This took a little while to resize as best I could which is when the kids walked back in from their day out.

Hopefully I can continue tonight but that depends on bedtime which is always great fun.