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Steve Pliers: The Most Metal of Metalheads

Posted on December 11, 2017 Posted in Logo DesignTagged 1980s, chrome, design, digitalart, graphicdesign, Illustration, lettering, logo, logodesign, logotype, metal, metalhead, pliers, retro, steve, tool, tool beltLeave a comment

Some time ago some Norwegian rando kept calling me Steve for some reason. Don’t ask me why.

Later me and some friends came up with stage names for ourselves for our hypothetical band. Everyone went with cool names, nearly all ending with either ‘Axe’ or ‘Chainsaw.’ Me, on the other, I went with the most Metal of tools in the repair box — the pliers.

Today, I felt urge to design a logo with a 1980s chrome look to it. Just for my own gratification and to find out for myself the steps needed to achieve such a look. And here’s what I came up with:

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There’s still room for improvement, but for a first attempt, it turned out alright, if I say so myself.

This will probably be my last logo this year. In the upcoming weeks, I will just focus on cartooning and character design.

Repuka: A Quest for Vindication

Posted on December 9, 2017December 10, 2017 Posted in Logo DesignTagged clipstudiopaint, death, deathmetal, digitalart, ghoul, horror, Illustration, logo, logodesign, logotype, metal, Skull, zombie2 Comments

I made this as a birthday present to a friend of mine. It also marks my first real attempt at digital painting.

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I still have a lot to learn, when it comes to painting, but I’m not completely green anymore (heh).

Is there anything else to be said about this piece? Well, actually, initially I had this idea for something a bit different than what you see pictured here. I once pitched this logo design that featured a gaping voodoo-like skull. But the band wasn’t having it. They told me they thought it would look good printed on an album or a T-shirt. But I held on to the idea of someday designing such a logo. Later, some other band said “no” to one of my design choices for a T-shirt design, telling me to overlay the logo on top of the graphic instead of below it, that it wouldn’t look good, otherwise. Again, I begged to differ, but decided to keep my further thoughts to myself and just get the job done. Here enters my friend with a funny nickname, Repuka, and whose birthday was coming. It gave me the excuse I was looking for to revisit these rejected ideas, if only to prove there was merit to them after all.

Toxocara, v.5.2

Posted on November 26, 2017November 26, 2017 Posted in Logo DesignTagged Art, clipstudiopaint, death, deathmetal, Illustration, logo, logodesign, logotype, metal, Skull, toxocara2 Comments

One day later … 

I asked my friends on Facebook which version they liked best. Most of them agreed that this time around, I actually improved upon the original design. One of them thought it would look even better if the skull were similarly colored to the rest of the logo. I indulged him, by trying it out (see below). Reactions to this one were very favorable.

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I, however, thought that it would look better if all the letters were partly colored yellow, as seen below. This has the benefit that the semi-realistic details of the skull don’t get washed out. Not only that, the color gradient makes for more vibrant, almost fiery lettering.

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One this matter, too, your feedback would be most welcome and helpful. So leave a comment to let me know what you think, and don’t hesitate to let me know what you like and what you don’t like.

Marquis of Snakes, V.2

Posted on November 2, 2017November 2, 2017 Posted in Logo DesignTagged angel, Art, black, blackmetal, demon, devil, Illustration, logo, logodesign, logotype, metal, valak, volac

Remember this Marquis of Snakes-logo I posted a few months ago? marquis word

Well, anyway, I was never really happy with how the letters turned out. So I decided to re-do them — from scratch. At the time of writing, I’m about half-way done (see below) — and it shows an improvement over the original lettering.

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Last time, I didn’t get around to adding all the graphics that I originally intended to add. This time however, I already went ahead with sketching the demon in the back of the logo (see below).

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I’m really looking forward to finishing this logo. And if you’re excited as I am to seeing this one finished — then stay tuned for future updates!

Chorus of Torments: Behind the Design

Posted on October 30, 2017October 30, 2017 Posted in Logo DesignTagged black metal, blackandwhite, blackmetal, graphicdesign, inks, inktober, logo, logodesign, logotype, metal, salem, symmetry, torment, witchburning, witches

Last night I finished designing this logo here. I don’t really have anything to tell about it, other than it’s portfolio piece. I just felt I needed another strong black metal logo before trying my hands on a new genre.

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As for the name — Chorus of Torments, I remember coming across it in some book, I don’t know which one, and I figured it would make for a cool name for a band, real or imaginery. And I sketched something out on a piece of paper, which yielded the following result:

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As you can see, I made some changes to the original design, hopefully for the better. The biggest change was the omission of the figures on top of the logo. Personally, I thought it would be nice to have an image of people suffering complement the logo (see the sketch below) …

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But some people whose judgment I respect advised me to omit it because they felt it be too on the nose and harm the readability and printability of the design. Right now I’m inclined to agree.

 

Wergild: Logo Breakdown

Posted on August 19, 2017October 30, 2017 Posted in Logo DesignTagged Art, band, blackandwhite, blackmetal, Illustration, lettering, logo, logodesign, logotype, music, spzajdel, symmetryLeave a comment

There’s a new black metal band in town called Wergild and I was asked to design a logo for them — which is what I did. Below I’ll break down the process of designing it.

Full disclosure: At the time of writing, I’m not sure if any of the logos seen here will see actual use. But that’s not relevant for this breakdown.

First thing I did was establish a sense of symmetry. Why? Because black metallers usually have a hard-on for symmetrical logos.

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I liked the logo’s silhouette, but something was amiss with the overall shape of the letters. The letter “W” in particular bothered me. As you can see above, it reads more like a “C” or an “N,” so I needed to remedy that.

Also, I decided on making things a bit more jaggy and messy-looking. Generally speaking, this is not a must per se. In fact, plenty of black metal logo designs are neat and tight in design. But one of the band members expressed a preference for something a bit more illegible.

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The problem, however, with textured letters is that they don’t look as good when you invert the logo. (The reason, of course, that logos get inverted is because band shirts are usually black.)

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So one simple solution is to simply keep the letters black, placed on a contrasting white background that follows the silhouette of the logo.

 

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As you can see, I also added some goatheads and a screaming skull because — just because, really. No, that’s not entirely true. It’s part homage to Christophe Spzajdel, the self-proclaimed “Lord of Logos,” whose logo-designs for Horna and Tsjuder have been of inspiration to me, and part conscious design choice to help improve the silhouette.

Dial R for Retro

Posted on June 29, 2017June 29, 2017 Posted in Logo Design, Werk 'in progress'Tagged clipstudiopaint, deathmetal, graphicdesign, heavymetal, lettering, logo, logodesign, logotype, metal, retro, thrash, thrashmetalLeave a comment

Spent the better part of the day improving my thrash game. Once I’m done, I probably have enough letters to supply the whole thrash scene with brand new, retro-inspired logos. slave machinery 3 methodical3

Kidding aside, I learned a few things in terms of angles of spacing on me while I was drawing and designing these letters. I’ll come back to that when I have more to show you.

 

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