My Logo

How I made this logo:

I first started my logo by researching what my name meant, apparently my name means "lion" which I thought is strong, rapid and intelligent. I didn't want to do a lion as a logo, so I tried to find out which animal could represent those characteristics. After a bit of researching, I thought of doing an eagle. The eagle is strong, intelligent and rapid. 

After some brainstorming, I thought about drawing just an eagle with a shield. That covered up intelligent and rapid, later on I just added a muscle arm to show strength. Before I wanted to make a ninja with a muscular hand, but thought eagles would be a better idea.

After doing a bunch of sketches and scraps of this logo, I decided to make mine red and black. At this point there was no background, but only a picture of an eagle with a shield. As a builded on; I switched colours, shapes, line quality and type. I went from red to green to blue to yellow and finally orange. I changed the shapes of the wings and the tail. Also thought it would look better if there was a  circle in the background too. I changed the line thickness and the directions there going to. I changed the type to just my personal logo. I chose the colour because I guess it just looks cool like that out of all the other logos, its very vibrant and attracts peoples eyes to it. There are actually two circles in the picture, I did it so I can make the nice shadow effect. Also one circle is overlapping the other to make the one of the top look more important to get the viewers attention at the center of the logo. 

After drawing many sketches on paper, I moved on to computer. I use Adobe Illustrator CS4 to create the logo, I barley knew how to use the program at first, but I managed to figure out the basics and create some nice stuff. I learned about the tools you can use in the program, the layers and many special effects with the tint. Layers are very important because without them you would have to remake the whole thing if you made a mistake. Tools such as the pen tool, is very helpful because its really easy to use it and control your lines (e.g lines, direction. etc.) 

I am pretty happy with my logo because it really does stand out from the other ones and personally I think it just looks cool. If I had more time I would probably just add more detail or make it more simple, it depends on the situation. Now that I know more about Illustrator, I would probably like to know more about photoshop, maybe just how to edit pictures (e.g remove pimples, red eye removal, etc.)

Bellow are some old ideas for my logo: