Rion's Artwork (Accepting Logo Requests), Hooray, art! Options

[RionZT]

Currently accepting requests.

Note this is a free service.

As of now, I'm taking logo requests for anybody who is interested.
Just note I have a few guidelines that I'd appreciate very much if you followed.

1) Please do not spam me with requests, and please limit your requests to one at a time. I would also appreciate not being rushed, I will work as fast as I can, I'm still rather new to Photoshop and the like.

2) I would ask that you be VERY specific with what you want. Colors, gradients, etc. As for designs, I lack the skill to hand-draw them (I use brushes to make the designs, hehe...)
So if you request something I don't have, I will try to look for it, if I cannot find it, then I apologize, and you'll have to either change your request, or, if you can locate brushes that are what you're looking for and link them to me, that would be fine as well.

3) Please, please, PLEASE, do not expect some unbelievable masterpiece. As I stated before, I'm not very experienced, so making something as good as others here can do is not something that comes easily to me. On the flip side, if I do something wrong, please do not hesitate to tell me. I would hate to mess something up and have someone not tell me because they do not want to irritate me or something.

Onto examples, these are the best ones that I've done so far. (According to the kind people who have helped me along the way. )
Note: Please do not re-use any logos other than the ones you request without permission from myself (if it isn't made for someone else) or the requester (if I made it for said requester). Thanks.

[Show/Hide] The Shinora Chronicles Final Logo

[Show/Hide] The Shinora Chronicles-Alternate

[Show/Hide] Project EXodus Logo V2

[Show/Hide] The Surcease War

[Show/Hide] Soul Slayer: Embracing Chaos

[Show/Hide] The Shinora Chronicles 2: The Perfect Light

Again, if you want to request something, ask of course. But remember to be specific, I can't read minds.


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I'm pretty new to Photoshop, but I whipped up a couple of logos.
Here's one I made for a game idea I had:


And this is the new (non-lame online text generator logo) and improved logo for The Shinora Chronicles:


The only problems I have with these personally is I feel like the spacing between the words is off. I may redo them later, but since school started back up for me, it's going to have to take a back-seat for now.

~RionTarokai

This post has been edited by RionTarokai: Mar 31 2012, 05:33 PM

[X-M-O]

Yeah, mums are that way sometimes.

You easily forget things you've learned about a foreign language when you don't practice it often (and I mean daily, lol).
I used to speak Spanish quite well, and I knew a bit of French and Italian as well; now I can hardly remember the pronunciation rules of any of the languages except Spanish (because in Texas I hear Spanish at least once every few days, lol).

In relation to anatomy, and your problem with drawing eyes that match, something you should always do (chiefly at this stage of learning) is draw guides first (geometrical shapes that will determine the distance and location of your character before getting into the details of shape and body parts and hair). =]

On to your images:
First one: Looks really cool, nice idea and overall design. ^^

Pony pictures: Nicely done, and very colourful. Good work converting it to a digital version, by the way. =]
Using Photoshop, you can get much more straight lines if you use the pen tool to redraw the edges, then you'd just convert the vector to a selection and fill it with the appropriate colour(s). Having each piece redrawn using vectors, also allows you to manage each part individually and allows you to apply specific effects to each section (not always practical, but sometimes you might want this). Always save that work in a PSD so you can go back and change things at a later date, if you want to. =]

To the logos:
First version looks really great; glad you were able to recreate it without much difficulty. ^^
Second version is my favourite; almost has a Matrix theme going on there, but it is clearly readable and even gives it a dark forest-themed appearance.
Third version is too blurry, and this is because (unlike with the way green works with black) you have an inner shadow of the same colour as the outer shadow. This can work in some cases (for example, the logo in my signature uses this technique to feint a blur), but when dealing directly with a font, you can get a better effect if you do a Stroke at size 1 with the position set at inside and remove the inner glow or inner shadow (whichever you used). This should work to remove the blur and get the font to look better. =]
The colour is great, just need to be sure it isn't too blurry.
Fourth version looks all right, not my preference, but it seems to work fine.
Last version seems a bit overkill with special effects, but it is still readable. =]