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- PhanLo5
Doing a drawing for a friend for a small mural festival he's organising. Still a bit more background to go, but was playing with colours.
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- utopian12
Logo explorations for a rebrand.
- Really enjoying what you have going in the first one.monospaced
- i dig the first one, rest is like here is something so you can choose the 1st :D
have you tried to rotate the symbol a bit so that the C stands out better?sted - I think there's something to the 3rd one.i_monk
- maybe a television channel logo?sted
- Only the second one can maybe be trademarked, the rest are already done countless timesgrafician
- So yeah, keep version 2, make the "r" longer (use same width for the letters)
You didn't mentioned what's for tho'
But anyway, yeah, keep 2, trash the restgrafician - What type of business is it and in what of market? Kind of telling that people would offer opinions without first knowing that.mort_
- nr 3drgs
- 3rd and last. But without context we don't know what core does or is, can that be hinted in the glymph?shapesalad
- I like the second and fourth the best. The first one has issues at a small size.CyBrainX
- Release the glymph!mort_
- 3. Although each of the 3 in three are a little different due to stroke vs shapemisterhow
- I like 2 and 3 the most. Reminds me a bit of the citecore logo symbol i did some 15 years ago.islandbridge
- First one will have the most issues with moire/lost detail at small sizes, esp. digitally. But I think the same idea could be done without as much detailevilpeacock
- what sort of thing does the company do?Nairn
- me, i like the last one most. has personality. i feel like i've already seen the others.
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#3 would be great for 'cube'.Nairn - its so hard to not to ask since its WIP but i'm a curious asshole to the end, so i have to:
@utopian any notes on the comments? :Dsted - Making the logo a C is too obviouscannonball1978
- What’s the logo for? Industry? Etcsofakingback
- oh sofakingback you're alive! long time no see, all good?sted
- Insurance co.utopian
- then none of these are OK lolgrafician
- Can you get them to rebrand as 'Care'?Nairn
- PhanLo15
Slowly doing a 360 drawing, maybe a quarter the way through.
Been a while since doing one, lots of wee details to get in. Then some characters on top.
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- Here's a video on how I get my base colours using gradient maps.
https://www.youtube.…PhanLo - hah i didn't knew that there is a tool for that :Dsted
- The plugin is super handy to block out the flats and the gradient maps can throw out lots of possible colour ideas. Really good as a start to designs :-)PhanLo
- +1utopian
- Love your stylemonospaced
- yeah it looks like a really handy tool nice :)
may i ask how are you drawing in perspective? u got some help lines or you're using a string?sted - Dope. Is that your channel?scarabin
- @sted, I'm drawing it in Photoshop in 360 over a photo, essentially tracing it. I add bits and take away sections as I go. I'll try and post some process.PhanLo
- @scarabin yep, I never posted it before as you know, folk like to be miserable :-)PhanLo
- Here's a version where I draw a streetscene using a fountain pen https://www.youtube.…PhanLo
- @sted I use actions created by Jama Jurabaev to start off https://www.youtube.…PhanLo
- ah right i just realized how old i am aaha :D
i thought these things start with a pencil and paper :) nice, i really like that u find the tools u need and stillsted - persevere this hand drawn analog look.sted
- I started to try to do the digital versions when I was doing animation work as the analog stuff was taking a while longer. :-)PhanLo
- Here's where I got to tonight https://i.imgur.com/…PhanLo
- Fantastic work, as always.CyBrainX
- There's a great way to get this look in 3D with Arnold toon. Calder Moore has a tutorial series.
https://www.youtube.…CyBrainX - love your stufffadein11
- yass what @fadein7eleven said.
with a hug-he respect :Dsted - @CybrainX cheers will give that a watch.PhanLo
- Here's a video on how I get my base colours using gradient maps.
- cherub1
I'm working on a website, I can't post the code of course. But I'll say it's drained the life out of me, with all the headaches every damn time something doesn't work and I can't figure out why. It's my first big website.
I like html and css but I get tripped up trying to organize it all, I end up giving stuff id's when I think it's better to have classes, but I don't exactly know the use of those yet... well in a general sense I guess it's so you can do stuff en masse to an element rather than laser precision. Isn't it?
The PHP was so ridiculously hard. At first I hated backend. Maybe I still hate backend. But turns out php is also extremely powerful, so I ended up respecting it.
My work in progress, is still ongoing... site is working now tasked with adding more features.
I just wanted to say, this work in progress I'm thankful for, it taught me about flow, inline vs block, all that good stuff most of you have known for years.
- I never style with ids, only with classes.
I use ids only for elements I want to control with javascript or as #anchors for hrefs.uan - Try Webflow - it's thinking in code, but visualgrafician
- and I keep them unique (only 1 html element has the id).uan
- ^that's the part I struggle with, when I sit down and try to think...ok what elements would I want to treat as a group and which need to be uniquecherub
- So far I'm treating everything unique. And I don't know how the stylesheets should carry over from page to page, like what css header stuff is global(it gets recherub
- used on every page) and which css stuff belongs in the body. I can't organize it all in my mind.cherub
- So I end up with inefficient, disorganized code although superficially it does work. Then my mentor told me it's harder to maintain messy code.cherub
- Again cherub (you might hate me anyway), but telling you, get Webflow and start using it! No more writing code and you build pages visually. Less hasslegrafician
- Webflow is CMS. Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't webflow essentially just dumb down the html/css? It acts as a middle man between you and the code?cherub
- On the surface, one disadvantage comes to mind. If you are handed a site that wasn't created with that CMS system (it was coded by hand), how are you gonnacherub
- understand the code enough in order to maintain it? If you can't code by hand. What skill will land me the most gigs? Hand coding html/css or some type of CMS?cherub
- I'd like to land some freelance work building websites. Which is the most useful skill to know? School me, QBN.cherub
- Look it up man, lol
Sure, it has also a CMS but that's optional, you can add blocks of html, then style them then animate them. Real easy and you learn faster!grafician - Funny, I thought QBN would be more opinionated on the matter. You've got no advice to give an aspiring web designer, QBN? Am I on the right forum? lolcherub
- Start by updating your homepage.uan
- good call.cherub
- Nobody seems to want to pay money to have sites designed. Its all cheap templates and themes for this and that.webazoot
- More of my work now is fixing websites that companies have put together via the above methods which have broken.webazoot
- Or for bigger design agencies who can't figure out how to do something that they should be able to do. Maybe its just me.webazoot
- I'm not a super coder or anything but I know how to figure a problem out and fix it.
Is not helpful when it comes to trying to make a portfolio tho.webazoot
- I never style with ids, only with classes.
- monospaced7
Developing directions for the marketing and visual style of an internal, firmwide technology learning program. These are just some rough animations I made to show how they might come to life. These are just one element of a whole suite of deliverables I roughed out, but I thought they were fun to share.
They already picked a direction. Can you guess which one?
- Top one is tasty but the middle one reads fast. I’m guessing they went with the bottom since it looks like it may be more work?scarabin
- bingo :)monospaced
- hmm got the weirdest nostalgia feeling with the first one :Dsted
- +1fadein11
- The middle one is interesting, playing with perspective. The other 2 versions are crap ofcgrafician
- 3, brain thingy is cute.uan
- ofc?monospaced
- 1, ok
2 is really inspiring. I bet if you had more time for experimenting and developing that concept, it would beat 3.uan - The idea with 3 was that I could "build" different 3D "areas" and display them like this, depending on the topic. Topics are limitless.monospaced
- I mean, that was the idea with 2. Some could be complex, some very zoomed in and simple.monospaced
- I'd add the element of typography. mix 3D rotations with 2D stretches to form letters.
and use the letters to form words (topics or claims).uan - I'll keep it in my back pocket for another day :) Thanks.monospaced
- ofc sure, 1 looks like 2000 called, the 3rd one is a bunch of stock icons thrown together.
2/middle is top! With lots of room to growgrafician - Nothing is stock. Fuck off.monospaced
- Don’t you have an agency or two to run?monospaced
- Stop being defensive, take a step back, look at these and you'll know I'm right.
Team choosing 3rd = op missed :(grafician - Remember while bashing each other that design is a process and this thread is dedicated to work in an unfinished statescarabin
- you're not right, grafmonospaced
- Yeah sorry, not even dissing or anything, these are the icons style in 3rd option: https://creativemark…grafician
- they are notmonospaced
- just saying 2nd option the strongest, already can see dozen ways to extend that into anything from print to webgrafician
- that is very different from what you said originally, and i hope you don't give feedback like this to your agency's designersmonospaced
- I dig these. Although cute, I keep getting stuck on the beakers at leftmisterhow
- lol I said 2nd option is interesting, 1 and 3 are crap, still stand by it
Anyway shut up, post more stuff
I'll post tomorrow toografician - I like the middle one, the animation is bonus. Cheers for posting here, I appreciate it.PhanLo
- nice mono. a good, diverse group to choose from. #2 is the most intriguing imo, but #3 looks fun.bezoar
- Thanks.monospaced
- nice mono, looks like you had some fun.utopian
- Pains me to say it, but I am with Graf on this. 2nd one is cool af and has loads of potential.scruffics
- I’m okay with that, but he called the other two “crap” and implied it was stock illustration. :)monospaced
- Yeah, I am not so sure about that choice of words.scruffics
- I like the 2nd one too. That’s why I designed it haha.monospaced
- Nice work man, 2 is a lovely approach!pedromendez
- Good work, Mono!
^pedromendez +1Nairn - Thanks!monospaced
- Nice. How did you do the animations, mono?Fax_Benson
- Illustrator artboards to Photoshop for 1 and 3. I used SketchUp for 2.monospaced
- I love that second one. It would be very cool to create some icons in that flat state and have them become the landscape you see in perspective.CyBrainX
- graf can go fuck himself ofc, or show some workmonospaced
- scarabin
Sometimes the process is as interesting as the product.
Workin’ on something fun? Show us your WIPs and tell us about it!