However, I want to make sure I only pick sites that I know for a fact that you guys can use if you don’t use them already, so I hope you guys do it in this article.
All the stuff you guys see in the article will be in description down below now, with a few more of the things I want to put in that I couldn’t fit in the article, but if you guys have any really cool things that are like not in The article here today or in the description please let me know what kind of like resources or it’s like haha, I’m resources, influenced and kind of, like just literally anything that will just help motivate some people in design and help them out and any way possible.
So let me know what I probably putting calm or dead, because I don’t think what YouTube will show it so love you guys along love. You guys hope you enjoyed today’s article and I funny guys see: let’s do it. Alright, oh man, so the first site that show up a lot of you guys is called remove dot, BG, remove dot, BG’s a super easy source for you guys to help cut out backgrounds and have focal points such as for a lot of people.
That’s cutting out people so for a lot of designers, the usual select object or even the new object, select that came out recently and then you see like layer, masks and brushes to fix the cutouts, a super great option or the case of using a pen tool To come out an image, or even like you’re, using a quick selection tool and letting the shortcut Q on the keyboard for a quick mask mode and then kind of coloring around where you want to fix the mask.
Even though those options are super easy and Bible. For most designers out, there there’s also a few designers out there who just still do not know how to cut things out properly and that’s pretty much what the site could be used for. It’s a free resource for downloading the low-quality cut out images. However, guys a quick tip you can actually do to get around the low-quality file size that I’ll give you is, you can actually see the actual downloaded file size, you’ll get right below the actual download button.
So all you have to do is take that same exact file, size and put it inside Photoshop. Take your newly cut out image from remove BG and your original image and put them in the same exact document size as you guys just created, then only have to do a select. The thumbnail of the cutout image by this holding ctrl on your keyboard. To get the marquee selection, then you can click back on your original image.
That is not cut out and it’s also way higher quality and let’s use the layer mask chin, just really quickly cut it out. Then you guys can, of course, just grab it and move it back to whatever document size. You actually need to be in and turn up there you go so yeah, I’m saying if you guys are ever having issues with cutting things out, remove diabetes, a super solid spot to go for next site. Friends is a place where I was actually newly introduced for icons.
It’s called the noun project. If you guys are anything like me, and you have two designs, for example like stream packages, and you have those things, those little icons. I would usually have right next to the words like new follower, a new subscriber, even people who are even in like web design. This site offers awesome free icons to use an HD as well, something having a lot of you. Guys can really fall in love with and enjoy, as I use it myself when it came to my actual stream concept, and I thought it just the icons that gave you were just like literally what I was looking for.
One of the really cool things is: you can even rotate flip and like even change the color of the icon before even downloading it. I think it’s a super awesome site to bring light to you for a lot of designers out there. Okay, so this next set is more like a plugin. You still got ta go to the site to actually even get the plugin, but it’s called light shot. A lot of what the screenshot community uses generally is known as Gaia’s.
Oh, however, guys with light shot, you guys see me use it a lot in my articles. In my streams, it’s activated by pressing the screenshot button on your keyboard that pretty much allows you to select any areas like usual screenshot programs would, however, with live shot. You can choose to draw make lines, quick arrow directions, change, color of whatever you’re doing it with and even write text on the actual screenshot itself.
Then, of course, you can upload all those marks that you made very easily the same way with like a cloud upload service that, of course, again a mini screenshot services have. However, when uploading, I mainly use the control C and control the option, of course, copy and paste to simply copy and paste anything. I’d like to just share my friends on my clients. It comes super in handy with drawing on your screen to show corrections to a certain design and you’d like to make, or even just like a note to yourself, one of my favorite ways to do.
It is actually just giving feedback to other designers and just taking screenshots of their projects and kind of like pointing out where I think things can be fixed and tweaked, which is super helpful for a lot of people. A really great program that I think you guys should truly truly truly download, if you guys do not have it already, of course, using the regular print screen and all that good stuff is dope.
But this one for me is probably the most top-tier one when it comes down to it, but honestly, if you, if you’re still using guy hazel bro like nothing against it, but like you know it’s just not like shot alright guys. Next up is something I feel. That’s actually really truly underrated, which is Adobe and Google Fonts sites. First, when talking Adobe fonts, if you guys have a Creative Cloud account, it doesn’t even require you to even download the font.
All you guys have to do is actually just active it through the site and it’ll appear in your Adobe program. The filters on the left side of the page really help those in search for specific fonts for their projects. It even offers a really cool, quick preview text for every single font listed on the actual page simultaneously, something a lot of professionals use across the board, because every font you actually see on Adobe, fonts and google fonts – are all free for personal and commercial use.
So if you’re stuck on looking at places like the font or be hands and trying to figure out where to actually find some new fonts try out adobe and google fonts to get those projects looking right, okay, guys so the last site for this article. Since we talked about the elite prints being program and some fonts something I used to find similar fonts that I love in projects – and I see around the world – is known as what the font.
What the fun has helped me in never having to really ask people. Hey? What is this font? Because it comes in handy to be able to drag a picture I saved with a print screen that shows the actual font to then proceed to a list of all identical fonts. That could be the one that you’re looking for or something at least super super similar granted, most fonts shown from what the font are purchased focused.
You can highlight the font that you would like to get and paste the same exact font name in Google with the word free at the end of it, and you can see if the actual font author has personal use versions or weights available most times through my Searches, I’ve been able to find some really cool free versions of the font that I’ve been looking for and honestly, you won’t have to now go crazy for like what is this font? What is this font? And you know this is one of those things one of those things you guys absolutely should know of, because it does come in handy all, right homies.
That is the end of the article here today. So, as always, if you guys did love the article, please be sure to leave a like, and I would also like to know what kind of websites are using, whether if it’s for like influence a little bit inspiration a little bit of like resources. Anything basically without actually having camera net cuz you’re, probably going to get like deleted from YouTube and since of the comments, so don’t do that.
But just put like the you know: if it’s like you know it feels like B Hanscom be like you know what to be hands. Go check this out. For this reason, I would like to know some new things as well, and of course, I do have other things that I do not mention in today’s article. In the description down below is their links as well, so please be sure to check them all out. As always, guys I’ll talk to guys later, assess ohq out, do not forget to keep smiling stay positive and stay a freakin productive, guys.
We’re going to call like iconic East for design logos. Reason being is because, there’s of course, more than just a mascot a logo to actually create a tee sport team design right. So this right here is more or less kind of revolving around the word icon, um. You know it’s kind of like a 2d or flat logo, as you might recall it as well.
If you guys were typing it in Google, isn’t like that, apply in logos that look like such but yeah, it’s more or less kinda like a bare-bones, stripped, simplistic method of contra buting, whatever the words that might be in the East for design team. For me, I made up my own, so I kind of called it Star. Wolves give myself this really easy, just cut in to kind of make a really cool logo just really quickly, just kind of literally a three-minute logo pin to it freely um so yeah.
It’s just one of those things where sometimes is the eSport team name that also really counts. So if you’re reading this article looking to make your own eSport team yourself and you look and make a logo for it, if you might have to go back to the drawing board when it comes to the name, sometimes it’s so hard sometimes, and you can make It so much easier for yourself, also in you know, in a way right anyway, for this logo.
Here all I pretty much data was combined three different things or, I would say two different things: basically, a shield itself and then an icon. Alright, excuse me an iconic or a an object in which you can see very, very maybe it’s loosely, but more or less. This is very more like direct, so you can see like a wolf in the background of the the shield itself kind of how is it in this little shield and then star, wolves, there’s no way, I’m not going to put a star in there so put a Star in there right, but this is more or less this is wouldn’t be.
Like my concept, I would show my my client I’d be like hey. This is where my direction I’m going into um I did at excuse me. I didn’t have these little like little indentions here when it comes to like just cutting that out just to make it look cool, make sure this is like nice and even whatnot, but the logo itself is not quite even right now, because I just kind of like I said I free-handed it and I use a tool for this thing so with that being said, there’s a plenty of places that I can improve on when it comes to this right here right, you might look at this ability.
This is perfect. It might be perfect. Oh yeah, who the hell knows right, but I’m just trying to say this more you can do because if you take it and like subtract again, you have you know right here: let’s just try again really quickly, you have the shield itself right and then you have The the the wolf will just you know whatever that’s a well, that’s a bird, but then you have the star as well. So if you kind of think about it, this is the hardest part of the knowledge.
Okay right, so you kind of think about it. This is like plus there’s another plus. If you were to think about it, you can go ahead and say this might be good for you. But what if I went in and said, hey what, if I you know, change this a little bit or I change the star to make it like – have a little indention here to kind of have a cut um or the shield itself. Maybe the shield itself is broken this area here.
Maybe it can be broken in the area. Right here, maybe can be broken an area right here you mean. So what I’m trying to like suggest is when you have something like this, and you want to try to elevate it, make revisions based on changing one of the each interval shapes. So I’m just rying to give you guys like a really cool in, like I said, I made it easy for myself with this little logo here, but I also have something written down like if you have Spartan you have helmets right, that’s what we use a lot, But uh, what else do I have there? Oh yeah tornado, vortex uh that Star Wars.
So basically what I’m saying is like vortex gaming or something like that you can have like a you, know, twister or some kind of like cool. You know just kinda like a spinning just vortex right um, also when I said tornado as well. You have a tornado, I think, there’s a tornado gaming already, however um but yeah, you see how like very easy. It is to pick you know, nitpick these things, but when it comes to more of an abstract term, when you come with your East Ward team itself, maybe it’s just as easy as kind of just making a logo concept around just like a shape itself.
I’ll show again and then later in this article, however, I was going to quickly go over now that I’m done talking giving you guys all the little insight quick little four-minute insight. I think it’s very valuable if you guys, you know, take the time. Listen anyway, I’m just going to quickly just cut over really quickly and show you guys how I’m going to create or how I created this, but I’m just going to use a lie on this time.
It’s a different shape, just to kind of give you guys a really quick like how to kind of have a think through some times right. So give me a second I’ll just come right over its like it’s literally a second, for you guys all right guys sore back so right. Now, I’m going to show you guys how to create a really cool icon, mascot design – or, I wouldn’t say, masca design. But I can’t animal design. Does that make a little more sense for you guys so more or less, not a mascot itself in the creation of the style itself, but more or less like an icon like so now for me really quickly, I want to show you guys this really cool little Technique that I I guess I can house for you guys kind of like really kind of pinpoint on what direction you can go when you do on your own right.
So for here I kind of like would break it down into three shapes. I’m going to be using the print screen, little quick, little program here using the pencil to quickly draw. I could drone Illustrator, but whatever this is fine too so three shapes here. So those are the the shield here as well right, that’s one shape. The second shape would be the wolf itself, that’s number two and the third shape would be the star.
So if I quickly just kind of like forever some outside this is by the way we should be doing in your sketches. So I’m going to have my shield here. I have my wolf here, I’m just kind of like oof. I got it just kind of quickly, a kind of like, like a you know, that’s the nose, whatever right so cool, that’s the wolf there and then I have the star as well right. So this is the hardest part ever in the universe, to know how to do stars perfectly, but that’s okay, star for now.
So that’s three shapes, so that’s kind of how I broke it down in my head personally to create this really cool, really quick concept here by the way this this I mentioned again. This is a quick little literally like a 5-10 minute pencil sketch should I did for the this example here with their made-up star, wolf name um. So that being said, you can go ahead and go through it. Now. Let’s say you want to take the star, for instance, this is there’s, there’s plenty of different ways to make a star right.
This is still a reference star, so you going to have the you know you have the the simple ol kind of like you know, star kind of shape going on here, the I’m just going to do the lines for a criss cross or whatnot. But if you got it’s like typing, like starlight logo or a star icon and Google, to get some references, don’t fit on copy. Of course, I’m just saying references of how stars can also be done in a way of like also not just being bare-bones.
Just a simple star shape, so they mean by that is. If I were to go over here and I said hey, I don’t want my star to kind of all connect. Maybe one might start a kind of disconnect here. I would do this perfectly by the way, when there’s kind of just showing us for a reference wise right. Maybe you see when you start to look like that right automatically just made a different character or if you made a different logo, because you changed the character of how the stars represented.
So if I say okay, I don’t want that theory. I’m going to want this right here, cut out as well. You know I want to want this just cut out right there as well so going to cut this out just like so now my star looks blue the different again right. So that gives me a different. No look to it right, you might say holy crap. It look really good then, but what this revision is indifferent, like steps that I’m taking and make it look even cooler, it’s looking kind of cool right.
What, if the you know that kinda looks is pointing down. I would kind of make point up, so I kind of reverse that cut it a different way, because you know you know mindset, branding wise, you wan na make sure you have the best-looking thing you don’t have anyone be like when they lose really old, dude they’re Going downhill but um. Basically, this is what I’m trying to mean right. This is what I mean I broke it down into those three shapes the shield, the wolf the star and you can take take each one of those shapes and create something really cool and different, and just kind of like just just, of course enhance it.
Make it better for like the wolf itself, maybe the wolf. I want to kind of make a shooting star reference. So maybe if this star wasn’t here – and I want to say it – you know it’s its wolf’s, us its star, wolves, eSports or Star Wars. Gaming is my made-up name that I created for the concert, the article here today. What if I said I don’t wan na make it. I don’t wan na make the star being so obvious, so mater this star was actually filled in.
It was just a shape going fully down this way and let’s say if I want to make a reference of a galaxy or or shooting stars, you can do really cool. Maybe this will have to be finessed a bit more, but you can do some really cool. Like indentures going in this way to kind of create different, you know, emotions and in a shooting star reference right. I’m just going to give you guys ideas of how to go about this name here, but I want to now go over the fact of how to create a really cool logo, with the name going to make another made-up name superior lion, eSports or superior.
I’m in a superior lion gaming, so with that name automatically we should be doing, is dispatching the superior dis attaching lion, and then you can even do such gaming as well. What I would do is, I would say, when it comes to superior. What does that word? You should study as well, so it’s typing the word. If you know what the word superior means, if we’re ever going, google go to google definitions, you’ll find like royalty.
So then hey royalty, whatever loyalty colors, what our royalty objects? What is royalty materialistically, wise right and I’m automatically, I think crown so I can say Lion crown. Sheep would be my go-to kind of revision concept that I would go for so hopefully that kind of gives you guys a really cool idea, because there’s there’s that’s a prison going to try to do really quickly. It’s like a little quick little pencil sketch as well.
Again, but that’s how you should be like be able to think it through. So this is why logo designing takes so long is because there’s a lot of studying involved as well than just really just going into it and saying hey screw it. But now, when you have this kind of foundation and method and steps, it looks kind of like a little bit easier right. So I quickly cut over to a really quick tip that I kind of wanted to show you guys really quickly, because it’s honestly probably change your thought process a lot and I think it’s going to be pretty cool to actually know so.
I’m going to just quickly cut over to that and yeah one. Second, all right. I totally totally just lied to you guys, I’m actually going to do it when I do the reference of actually doing a letter concert really quickly going to end the article, because it’s kind of like really quick and really cool, just kind of method. Of doing that. As well, so I’m going to kind of separate that in the article really quickly, so I’m not going to do the tip now but will do in the article grantee anyway.
I quickly go over that’s lying superior gaming thing, so I have a lion sketch already in here and I already have a preview of how. How can I want to house this? So this is a very sort of like honestly pen tool sketches they’re, not perfect. This is a pencil sketch as well, but it came out pretty good because I made the Lions fairly sharp and easy, but when it comes to Lions, I always feel like little spike kind of like hair references are kind of like a go-to, so that mean something I have to revise, but let me quickly show you guys how I went about that doing this little cool little.
You know masking sort of lion shape this little icon mine shape. That would look really good in the shape here, yeah that that I’m sorry promise well won’t be that hard to follow, hopefully right anyway. So if I just take this little profile by the way for this icon here for the mat, the wolf that I chose here is I typed it in Google wolf profile here. I typed in Lion profile, and I got this image here – and parents from sterner stock.
Just kept that in because I just took the image itself right, so I’m going to go ahead and just reference some of these lines here, so what you guys should be looking at when I quickly zoom out a little bit more. What you guys should be looking at here are basically what are the lines that are going on right. So you have this line here. You have a curve here, so you have one dip right. You have a little bit of tip here.
You have a dip right here. You have something going in this way. That’s another dip! Another dip here. You know right here right and then another dip here and then you probably wan na come down here right. So you have like 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Little dips that are going on here so realistically, what I would do is I would try to minimize that, make it as simplistic as possible and have the Anil be seen and the less amount of I guess curves or cuts as possible.
So if I were to go for it, you guys are just all that I already did it bright was. I would start here go here. I make a little bit of curve for the top of his head and then for his nose bridge here, I’m going to say I’m going to make a cut just straight cut down right like this right and I’m a closest path for a second and I’m just Going to say, I’m going to make this entire thing: it’s not for going up down up down pencil, this entire thing, click here and I’m just going to drag.
I make this entire one shape. Okay, so this little reference shape here is a little bit off the books, but whatever um I’m going to say right here, I’m going to nice little dip right here. Actually, let’s go right here right to the bottom of his chin. I’m going to close this path for a second, so you can see the the actual pathing right and I’m going to say this little indention part. You see how it gets a little empty here, because it’s kind of like how you know if you look at your style profile, there’s emptiness right here.
So I’m going to go ahead and say I’m going to follow his jaw line, which is right here and just go just like so in inward. That way and I’ll come back out back to his chest, I’m going to bring this curve here more towards the inside, because I kind of like makes it look like it’s puffing out his chest right and I’m just going to go ahead and cut it in this Way here and I’m going to just screw that I’m going to leave this path right here for a second and I’m going to cut over it over here and kind of start on the top again.
So kind of face is done right here. So I’m going to go: do it now? It’s kind of how I did this here, so this is more or less the little spiky stuff is kind of how it’s going to be a little bit difficult to kind of do just pen tool off the bat. I probably could have thought about it before, but that’d be a little more work for me um, but I’m going to go ahead and just say: alright, I’m going to cut down this way right.
I want to reference how I did this here. This is kind of cool. What kind of made this kind of like a point, all right, something like that! Alright and then I started going downward. So I’m going to go like this. I see this one here, I’m going to go in and just kind of like literally kind of trace over it for now, just because I don’t have a schedule just going to quickly just go through this really quick like so I’m kind of just pick and choose And I’ll say: that’s fine! That’s enough for the for the idea.
That’s pretty much fine! I’m going to fill this in with a color get rid of this one here and I’ll use this. This is not actually that bad, but it’ll do that. It’ll do its job for now, what I’m trying to explain right. So for this part here I ended putting a little Iron Man and this for a little soil. I here I can just say I don’t like how this is anymore. I’m going to quickly go ahead and take my pen tool get rid of that make it flat line like so.
I’m going to do. Is I’m going to start off at this point right here and I was going to make it. I usually do this when my math got tutorials um in the past before I actually learn how to make eyes. It’s kind of how I just kind of click, make it like a scope. So you kind of go from tight, tight from tight to points here to a more of a wide. So you start off, you know skinny and you go kind of go wider, wider wider.
It’s kind of how you reference like a little eye, canvas or an eye. Cutout kind of cool little way to do that, then you just cut it out like so. If I zoom out the scale wise, if it’s not good, of course you have to fix it before the article itself, I’m not too worried about what the eye looks like right. Now I’m just going to get the point across, but yeah even the eye right now looks like it’s too far.
Up is what I would say, so I need to be more over this way, but I kind of really quickly want to try that just like it should be more like this. You know I mean uh yikes, you know what we’ll just kind of like put an eye in there for now like this. How about you just do that right, we’ll do like this and then something like that. I kind of thought about this way long ago, but you know I’m just rying to give you guys the idea I’ll just cut the eye like that for now weird is going to go with it right, so we have our line.
That’s our first shape that I was referring to when it comes the start, the the wolf and the shield we’re going to go hey. This is our shape here. We’re also just going to say this is an ugly-looking. Lyle is just okay right, I’m going to take a shape from here. This is going to be used as a reference literally on the article as well, but I’m going to take this shape. For now I would say: hey this is going to be the shaping on the using I’m going to make this shape a little bit bigger, okay, and also I’m going to have the shapes AAI that I have in this article right now in the description for you Guys to download you guys want to use these as well, I’m going to click the shape here, I’m going to turn off the fill path and I’m going to turn on the stroke path and on the show pathway, I’m going to use a line stroke, inner and I’ma hold shift to give me the ten intervals points.
While I click each time as you can see, it goes 30, 40, 50, and I would say this is pretty good right here for now right. So I’m going to take this shape here now. This lion shape that I have I’ll bring it above the shape you can see over. It now put it inside here, okay and I’m going to make it a little bit bigger, and this is where a little bit of a finessing you would need to happen so, and the sketch that you might have.
You might obviously need to notice that this needs to be a little further up here for the what I currently want to kind of want, and this is to be a little curl like a little further out there. I don’t know if it really can also happen. I thought don’t make a little more bigger there. We go something like that: it’s not that fit like this. So the reason why I made it come outside of the shape itself and make sure this comes out as well.
Right is because I’m going to cut the line out with the shape itself. So when you I’m going to use a lot of the shape builder tool, which happens to be this tool right here right, so I’m not putting a grid right. So I got ta get rid of that. It’s over here. Move click turn off. Leave me there we go okay, so I’m going to do is a highlight, see you can either select or you can highlight by dragging right over these two.
So I press shift M on my keyboard. It gives me the shape builder tool. I can hold alt and I’ll get rid of that so now. My my Lion shape now follows this shape here. So before I do anything else, I want to make my path right now. It’s currently a path, as you know right. This is turned on here, so it makes a stroke, it’s a path, more or less right, and obviously everything in the path is. I mean this is a stroke that you can’t really cut things out, because if I try to cut things out right now, let’s just use this turn this off.
For a second, let’s say I wanted to cut this out. It’s going to follow. Let’s just say right here right now: right, if I try to cut this out right here, it’s going to follow the line as well make another stroke, so it has to be turning into a fill that way. It acts more like an object when you cut things out, so what I want to end up doing it. I might click on this shape. Right here. Right go to object, expand appearance once the expence appearance, then I can cut things out the way I would want to without having a stroke up here with my new cut out right.
So with that being said, I would like to go in here and kind of say I want to get rid of this. I want to get rid of this. I want to get rid of that. I want to get rid of this kind of have that work. A little bit more freely and by the way this is called this is our made-up name – is superior liming superior Limon Lion gaming right. So now I want to say I want to cut this out here so the way I actually ended up doing that for this right here, making sure it’s as perfect as possible having that consistency of spacing by the way, it’s very important, so I’m going to take My shape here, I’m going to make a duplicate of it by holding alt dragging it up, and then I’m going to do is I’m going to click turn off the fill here turn on the stroke I’ll make a difficult for guys.
As you can see, it turn on your stroke options. You can do that over here as well on your windows. If you don’t, have it right and then go to a lion, choke go to the outside this time, i’ma hold shift again, I’m going to click like 3 times. That would give me 30. I would say: 20 actually looks pretty good 20 points. You can do one by one if you have to hold shift by the way. I just end up doing it a lot, because I ended up having them use that about that amount of width um.
So now, here by the way same thing, I have to make sure this is more a fill, not a stroke right now, because we can’t really cut it out as easily um. So we have to do. Is I’m going to object, expand appearance? Now it’s a nice little fill, I can click on the shape and the stroke now right and then I’m a shift and the keyboard hold alt. This is the shuttle tool by the way hold alt that gets rid of so clicking anything.
It just makes it a pluses we he adds the shape itself, but cuts it out with these lines here, what’s holding all erases it, so if I click right, get rid of that I’ll take my blue line here, delete it, and now it’s cut out perfectly how It would should be, I guess you would say if you wanted to have it look like that. So with that being said, that’s kind of like how our little our little shape is going on now, um, so superior right.
I said crown so basically what I would have to do without reference this line here. By the way everything had to be perfect, everything had to be a vector properly. Maybe you have to use a lot of circles. A lot more strokes may have to save a path of this um. The shield here, without actually being you know, edited so you have to have that you know redone over again, but I’m going to quickly kind of just like say for this little part here, I’m going to make it look something like this and then it’s going to Do a swirly here and it’s going to come up here, whatnot right, we’ll just do that and I’m going to quickly just make my life a little bit more easier, just duplicate this over! It’s not going to be perfect.
This is not in the middle actually, so I’m going to also squeeze it over as well, but it’s just for just reference right. So I’m going to put a crown here. Combine these shapes by the way the Pathfinder you can use the combine, shape, option or unite sees me. It’s called right, I’m going to quickly just remove that over here and call that perfect right now for now right. So now, if you look at it, you kind of have a really cool concept being created.
What I’d probably do, as well as out kind of like you know, maybe reference this cut out here as well, for the lion off the crown kind of give a little cool. Look as well, and I maybe put like a gem in here as well. If you guys want to – but I like I said this is me sketching with my pen tool, so I’m just going to give you guys ideas, but you can see what’s being formulated or what’s being formed with the idea that we had just from the name itself And kind of how he broke it down with the three shapes.
So what comes next is you can move? You can change the lion out. You can change how the shape works. You can change how the crown looks. So you can change. Maybe what you don’t want to use a crown, maybe have a different thought when you want, when you think of royalty right. So I’m just going to give you guys the clearest vision that I possibly can when it comes to creating your own icon. That revolves around an animal right, whether your name comes with it and your you, sport team, or you just want to do it, just put the hell of it.
Cuz you like that animal or if it was like sneaky sneaky sports sneaky alright, and it’s like a raccoon. You want to use a raccoon because there’s sneaky as hell like Sly, Fox um. What was that game called? I have no idea, I don’t why the Ward’s life slyfox, get on my mind anyway. Right, like you, know, racket just like what is that call sighs whatever well we’ll skip those like a ps2 game um anyway right.
So hopefully that really gives you guys a really cool idea of how I how I basically thought it out and broke it down for you guys um color matters too. So when it comes to like royalty, you might use some purples. You might use some blues to get that. You know that royalty feel in there might use some gold as well. So I’m going to go like to the yellow, orangie right kind of get a gold in there and you get like royalty right now.
Can you not reference? Can you not see a little bit further now, rather than having the the unfortunate like just panic, attack of how you go about actually creating the logo itself, but hope you guys understand that part, I’m going to move over to a really quick little tip. That’s going to really help you guys logos when it comes to like icons or letter concepts and whatnot, but I really hope you guys enjoyed this article so far and I’m going to quickly cut over and yeah.
Let’s just do this thing right now, alright guys! So last step for the article here is basically how to create some letter concepts and a really cool tip that I’d love. To illustrate to you guys that if you’re still struggling, I guess in the sketching process and are basically even the initial starting process of creating a letter concept or a logo or whatever a letter, logo concept there we go um, it’s actually a lot more easier.
If you think about it, so I’m going to use my shield’s AI for an example here, so it’s not only for a freaking animal icons. Imma show you guys in a way that a whole I’m going to give you one clear sentence right, I’m going to be like okay for your letter concepts. What, if you didn’t have to work in your brain as a blank canvas, and what I would like to suggest is the fact if you actually use a shape itself right in order to house and create another canvas in a way and create that canvas is in A way that that’s how you create a direct focus, that’s the worst way all Mesa trying to say is for this shield here these little black shoes that you see here.
What if you chose these as the way your canvas is created in your brain like what? If this is your canvas, and you can only work in these shapes, I wouldn’t say these individual shapes alone solely. However, just shapes in general right is how I’m trying to like what I try to mean right. So, if I just say, hey look at this concept right here. This is nothing but M logos. This is literally the shape here is, quite literally oh.
I forgot to combine these shapes anyway right. This shape here is quite literally uh how a lot of n logos would looked at. So if I were to go over here ly quickly, I typed in M log on Google. You can see our Shakey’s reference right here that same shade that we were just talking about it’s referenced, so it’s that you know that this is like this. That’s one shade that that person was working with in their brain.
This person work with a circle in their brain. This person worked with a triangle actually right this guy. This guy obviously worked more or less like a triangle right, so the thing is a lot of the times. What you guys are missing is the fact of the initial thought. Process is sometimes and most times a lot of the times more drawn at the times, there’s always a shape that can be hidden or seen. This is more or less is probably like.
Let’s just say this: one right here is all pretty cool as well. This one right here has more or less a shape that goes like this and then another shade, there’s the same exact thing but shorter on the outside, so there’s overlapping shapes in order to create a concept. So all I’m trying to say basically is for you guys is when creating a logo itself, sometimes it’s as easy as housing a shape and having a shape for you guys to kind of go for and reference off of before you even start really sketching.
So I’m just I’m keeping you guys the clear in there’s no secret. It’s just one of those things that sometimes people overlook because they look at the logo as a whole, rather than the process of it. Sometimes, and that’s why it’s so important since hasn’t readed speed. Arts or read someone how somehow someone else might do something, so it makes you think differently, so I’m trying to refer to so for this concept here I have this sort of shape down here by the way, so I can kind of create a quick little logo Here so for this concept here I’ll believe my said in the beginning, the article, but I was housing.
The fact that there’s uses of I haven’t written down, um symmetry shape and consistency, is like the three things I would like to reference the fact of how to create logos of many right, there’s just many other ways or I’m just saying it. I like to kind of keep in mind either symmetry shape. What I mean my shape is, like you know, kind of like shape of these little shapes here. So you know choosing shapes like this as a canvas to kind of work on or consistency.
What do they mean by that is like consistent, cutouts um, you know like I did for the star here like if these are all consistent cut out, so this consistency of that like that and I mean so that’s how I try to refer to you but freaking. I’m going to work on the the object of symmetry here, so I’m going to use the term symmetry here, so I’m going to use for this logo. Here I thought in my head gem gaming.
So this shape here is actually a really good shape for me to go by because yeah looks like a gem right and it’s kind of little six out of polygon right. So I’m going to go ahead and I wasn’t a quickly make a quick little logo off of this. So I’m going to just simply just use simple it’ll connect the dots kind of thing. So hopefully this has, it does have point on. It might not be perfect, but I’m sure you want to quickly go for for you guys and when I quickly should be three hundred degree angle turns so if we’re go 15, then three hundred and then go like, so I can simply just duplicate this or flip.
This over with the replication vertical will take. This will make sure this is on this point here, it’s a little off, but that’s okay and I’ll. Take this one here make sure this is on this point here and then one just kind of shape it this tool. Here so it looks like that shape, build tool, hold alt, delete there and I’m going to take this shape here. I might have to move this little further up right and then move this here.
Not the best idea, slash concept, slash execution, but it’ll work for the article here today. Right really quick right. So oh don’t forgot this. This needs to be like so cut out there. So we have our little G here. So this is our our first part of this, I’m going to click to just quickly just connect all these really quick and then just duplicate it over right. So you just see the process of me just using a shape, as we had just like.
So you can’t really quite see it. So what I might have to do is I’m going to say: hey, let’s split it in half once again, but then this is what I should have thought out before, but I’m just using this as a quick little cheat sheet. I guess you would say so I’m it’s like these two shapes it’s like the shape here, but I would have to fix this little cuz. Obviously then this is off so, and I have to like.
You know, of course, make a little more better, but for the for the sake of the article, this is perfectly fine, so right this is this is gem gaming right, so you have GG as this right so so for this imagine like kind of looking at this, As a whole, me like holy crap, have this guy think about this. It looks like a gem – oh my god, why is it like a gem and some people really honestly forget the fact that it’s just referenced off of shape so altar? I’m saying this part of the article is, I have a bunch of toros on logo designs themselves and honestly.
This is one of the more or less just quick, little tips, and I guess quick little gist of kind of like how people kind of see things in order to actually create things. So I’ll try say for this part of the article here is sometimes the easiest part is working with a canvas within a shape and not having it work. Like imagine like you’re, seeing this like imagine, can you see a TNS logo? Probably, can you see you are on the slope probably going to see at Emma’s logo – probably parties me, I’m going to say logo, I must say, shape right.
Can you see em in the shape? Probably, can you see a V in the shape? Probably, can you see a G in the shape, probably right, but imagine if you had all this turned off like what do you honestly see now, honestly so sometimes a little bit more difficult for you to understand it and or learn it and or create it? If you’re, especially if you’re new in like the world of gravity, sign and or logo design, so I’m trying to give you guys a really quick, little tip and honestly hope you guys enjoy today’s article today.
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It’s your voices so here bring is part two of the creating your mascot design, tutorial um, so yeah, referring obviously back in Illustrator, and I’ve also code this out. So I can just got ta. Give you guys the whole aspect, we’re talking me learning in today’s article here today. So it looks super doper. I got a nice little code scan going on. Of course, this is going to be an eagle, so I went with the white first kind of or white feathers and like the yellow, beak and like a nice little greenish, yellow gradient for like a stroke and also the eye color.
So, of course, we left often the same as I spot from last time where the line work was like this and if you guys wanted to look at that article, of course, just looking screws not below now just bring you back right to the line, we’re lighting. One babe yeah: well i’m norton article where basically, we took a picture correct and we just basically sort of like I showed you guys how to sketch it out or sort of like look for the shapes, and we came up with a nice little line.
Work here and then in today’s article, when we basically taking these line, works and just creating it into the actual mascot, so hopefully guys enjoy today’s article here, it’s date and yeah I violate. I appreciate it so very much the support from last last week’s article over like 200 X. He likes it was really really cool. I appreciate a lot. I guess you guys, like the webcam right. Here’s like seeing me.
I know, maybe it’s like that connection thing right. So hope you enjoyed today’s article and I’ll talk you in a second also. The lighting is a little weird from this article, because it’s actually a little darker outside it’s like 4:30 right now. So no we’re going to be like around the figure. Some Maggie, I did like some kind of light for like up here zone like that, but we’re okay for now. So alright.
So let’s get this thing going! Alright, let’s go! Let’s go all right, guys, let’s go and get this thing going so base. I have a really really nice little color, like hex color color scheme here, like I’m, going to give you guys off-course all these colors in the. I guess the process the article today, but for now just look: how really really nice, those colors look and they look even like better on the actual mascot.
So let’s go ahead and get this thing gone. Someone quickly just hide this and we’re going to uncheck this or basically get a nice little line, work picture here and now I believe this color here is basically the good color would like to use alright. So, like I said before, when you start off your color scheme, I would definitely like to recommend that, whatever your line, where color happens to be right, let’s just show you guys a little quick difference.
If your client work is just black, this, it’s going to be really hard for your mascot colors like really pop out and show that really nice even tone, rather than just having like a really harsh like a black line over your metal, a climber just I can Get it really quickly an explanation how I mean this is, if I just make this black look, how awkward my colors look, it might not look terrible to you, but doesn’t feel as smooth or as as just doesn’t feel it’s right.
Correct, like it just, doesn’t feel as right as this feels this. It feels like really nice and just good. So that’s I’m going to say about that. So just make sure you guys kind of find a really nice color for your line. Works actually get this thing going. So for me, I’m going to be using this hex code here, which happens to be 1 B, 1 D, 2, 1. And then it’s like a nice kind of like a blueish black tone, so that’s going to start off with this right so R.
At this very moment, I’m actually need to have my line work. I guess being a be clicked on, because we’re the first I’m going to be doing is actually creating our feather color or basically, our head color for the actual Eagle. So I’m going to do something: make a new layer right below the line work layer. Take my pen tool home write that my colors down there take our pen tool we’re just going to basically click around.
I can hide this for now. Just click around this actual face like make sure you don’t click on the inside, just like trying to follow this Anglophone like that, because the line work itself, the thickness of it it’s going to you’re, not going to see the actual colors besides, like you know, if You ever like got rid of the actual line, work right, sona, quick, let’s go around this just like so make sure I don’t try to hit in the white um.
Just basically go nice and around, as we can see it’s very simple and I just going to connect it right so for this little color here I choose this color right here, which happens to be a nice little offset white. It’s a has like some little blue tint on it as well. Just so I can match the actual black sort of blue tint. I have on the actual line work, so the hex code for this one is e v EI EI press.
Ok now this is our head card here, so you can, if you wanted to you’re, going to type and you type in head right and with them, of course, just high this layer really quick – and the second thing when I do is make another new layer and Then do the same exact thing for the beak color now I know for a fact that it’s going to be hard for guys to choose colors and the way I chose colors to what, as well as from here, is of course like like get inspiration right, google.
I don’t know like Eagle, mascot right and like find the colors that kind of worked and you’re like eyes when you see like two different colors like that and then also try to keep it like. I don’t know, the word is like anatomically correct. Is that how you say it, but like try to make sure you have like features like the nose itself, don’t make the nose purple that doesn’t really make any sense right? It’s it’s! A yellow beak right should keep it yellow or just keep it nice and like at least a example of yellow like this, is not like, like crazy, yellow ii won’t dulles, yellow right, but at the same time it’s still yellow.
It’s still like correct in a way as well, so make sure you guys don’t go crazy with colors and then try to make it so that it’s not as well as having the fur of the eagle itself like eagles, like they’re white, they have white fur. I mean, of course, my picture here is like a brown furred eagle, but I just know eagles as a Lightford, so I went for the white this time because I went for brown, but it’s kind of really hard for me like.
I know that fen likes a nice coating to use that just looks good, that’s very simple as well, so you don’t always have to find the best Brown. You can also just find like a nice offset white right. It looks good as well. So that’s my two colors right here, as you can see, looks really good so far, so well, I’m going to go ahead and do right now is before I do any of the highlights. I’m going to go ahead and show you guys how I did the quick little stroke around this actual Eagle here.
So I’m going to call this beak and then we’re going to make another logo Osumi another layer right here and we’re going to call this stroke line. So yeah, as I said before my other previous article, that if you guys looked at this line as a stroke line for like basically what’s going around your actual mascot with like the nice little color that I have and basically this one right here. Right like this blue here or this bluish greenish tone here um, that is not the sword.
Assuming this black is not the stroke line. This happens to be the actress rope line that goes around your mascot, so sometimes really hard for you to think about, because sometimes it’s like like they think of this is a stroke line. We just think it’s. This is if what they’re pen swing out? Well, that’s not actually the process right. It’s a lot different. We actually like understand what’s going on here, so I’m going to do.
Is I wan na use a stroke line layer here and I’m going to try to follow along as much as I want like as much as I can like I much much as I can right. So I’m going to follow on like over here now. The thickness of this is kind of fun. You can have a lot of fun with it. It’s like on your own. Let’s just go ahead and just like kind of follow this angle here, you’re going to see myself we’re going to see me following some angles and also just making up some item like some my own, so I’m going to do is I’m just basically like.
Let’s do something like this, but my mouse is like for some reason, weird and out right, I’ll, just follow this angle here, but besides everything is tire like same exact angle, like going all the way down going all the way going on all the way down. I’m just going to go down here right, I’m going to just make one right here and I’m just going to go all the way down here make one over here. This might be a little too far out all right, something like this, so I have to follow every single one of these, because this doesn’t really make too much sense it just.
I want it to be nice and cool and right here this angle here, let’s just make this followed all the way down here with a nice smooth transition, all trying to get this very even as possible come over here and then click just like so and then Basically, that is my little stroke line over here right now to keep it this yellow. As you know, I’m going to keep it that nice little greenish blue tint, let’s go ahead and make sure we just kind of like mess around a little bit like this angle.
Here is not falling too well here. So if you want to open your path again, just press alt on the path, it’ll open, back, open it back up and you basically click on any either like any point that you want to, and it gets really move it right. Very, very simply, these probably the student program move up a little bit so yeah, I’m not going to experiment or I’m not going to mess around too much, because that’s what I did my actual example one.
But as you can see, that’s what I’m going to go forward. That’s how I’m going to say it! It’s going to just stay like that for now, um yeah, that’s, okay, that’s alright! And so for this stroke here I basically use a gradient right. So I use a grading which is the middle actual color pickle, a color pickle, color, picker um. Besides, like this one right here right, this is your first solid color. The second one is the gradient and the last one is.
I turn it off right. So the middle one is the actual gradient, and if I want to go over here to my little gradient tab right here, you can see the colors that I use the hex code for the first color. All this like sort of green was 0 0 c. 5. 9 d and the second tone right here, my mouse is trippin out a little bit is 0 0 a 990, so just like. So I just have that nice little gradient there and it looks really really good with like a nice yellow and I sort of offset.
Why would the blue 10 on as well with also the blue tint on the black? So now I’m basically okay, I guess to start the little tread of the eye really quickly. Let’s do the eye really quickly as well, because I also matches the same color as the stroke color. So let’s go ahead, make another layer below or sees me above everything and call this the eye now. Just because I want to cheat a little bit and make sure I get it as close as house Mike on my example, we’re going to go ahead and just move that over here for a second, so I can get it so I can so what I basically Did was I kind of just made the I squinted now for me.
I probably even take this like line rehear, I’m just going to undo this really quick. So I can show you what I mean. I might even take this right here and kind of move, an experiment with this right here as well. Right, you see how, like, oh, that kind, one’s pretty good as well. Okay, see like little things like that might just make it make a look even a little better. So besides having a like a nice little loop like that cuz, I was going to make a solid full circle.
I but this time I wanted like something like this, and it looks really good with that little that little bit fix right there, maybe like the logo like all over again right. So I’m going to go ahead and do the same thing here. So I’m going to go ahead and I’m going to take my pen tool, my little eye layer, we’re going to go ahead and just click and we’re going to click and drag right to give a nice little loop here now right away, I’m just going to press On this anchor point here that has its nth extended point over here, it’s going to press on it and it’s going to obviously close it down.
So that way can just make a nice little curved one rate here right now, really quickly. We just make the code of the eye this colored here now. Let me also move this up a little bit and also drag this down a little more, so I can get a more thicker. I guess you can say, and let’s just experiment a little bit. Let’s just say like that angle: right there is okay. Now, the only difference here is that this eye has like a nice little just like straight loop, and that gives a little bit like a loop on the back inside of the eye.
So we had just been Lisa did that if I open up half up again, that’s going to basically move my handle over to the left little more. That way and get a nice little like see how that gets like a nice straight loop and then it gets really wide at the end, that’s kind of high. When I have it, you can always experiment as much as you can now. If you want, you, don’t have to have this super vivid like a dip like that, but I guess it is a little much like that.
Okay, so once I have this little thing here now, you might want to also move this up as well. So I get a nice little skinnier, so you can see how it’s like how it starts to form and how you guys kind of like understand what I went through for the process. I think that’s pretty accurate what I have over there, but for now, let’s just keep on going. So what ended up doing was right to get this little little eye thing to like actually has a little people with it.
Also, this right here is just two shapes: there’s not three shapes with this black here I just use negative space and then actually create this little eye here. So if I press L on my keyboard me up to the ellipse tool right here, if I just press li uh, simply press alt and shift wherever I click at so basically you guys don’t know if you hold shift. That, of course makes a perfect shape. Your perfect circle, or even your perfect Rex, in whatever shape you’re using on that ellipse tool, if you hold alt and also shift its going to keep it in the same exact orientation.
So this is me holding alt only instead of keeping the same exact place that I clicked at and once I hold shift as you can see, it makes it to a perfect circle. So that’s what you kind of want right here right. So I make myself a nice little circle and I’ll say like it needs to be fairly like big, something like this right. I think that’s okay, pretty good size all right, it’s close to the like left side or Susan right side, this I as possible and then basically, if I hold shift right, this layer is already selected.
This like this shape. Right here is a recent. I think if I want to just quickly click it off, if I hold shift right, you can click on this one that, in layers currently selected as you can see the outline also, if you hold shift it allows you to select multiple shapes. So I just I click on this. I shape right here that we just pencil as well, and now both these shapes our base is selected. One I end up doing now is press shift M on my keyboard, which we can do see the shape builder tool and, as you guys know from last time, if you hold alt, obviously deletes and if you hold up like, I guess, the non holding anything it Has a little plus button right next to the mouse right, so I just basically click right, as you can see like cuts it off and you just have it right there, but the reason I’m going to be using it.
It’s hold alt, while I have the shape builder tool open, and it deletes my my little shape just like so right. So I’m going to try to fix this now, a little bit more now that we have this kind of cut out, it’s not as bad. I just wanted to make sure it’s somewhat. Okay, all right now to get a little white part. Basically, what I end up doing was basically make another circle right, o shift just like so, and now I’m going to end up doing is throwing this behind.
Let’s see throwing this behind this layer here, because I’m going to make this white I’ll and just make sure I have that pretty even I’m going to make this the offset white that I have here. So if I open this layer up right here, I just have this ellipse here. I want to drag this right below that path. That way I haven’t behind it now ended up doing is taking my pen tool pen to hang out this angle here, just like so going around a little bit.
Click on that that we just created also the shape right here of the inside eye and then make sure this angle also follows there and there you guys go. We have the nice little eye here now. This is a little skinnier than this one, but of course, trial and error, fixes and stuff like that will make it look just a lot better right. I’m just going to fix this as well, because that looked pretty cool there.
We go all right sweet now. We got our eye done for that and I’m going to just basically quickly. Let’s hide this really quick move this back over to the middle, at least so we have it there again and then let’s just go ahead and do a little stroke lines now boom turn that all back on also this move over here there we go alright. So my stroke lines, I want to go ahead and say really quickly. I’m going to do this again and show you guys this one is usually when you think of highlights you think of like shadows, you always have to think of it as having it be like right here like this is offset way.
This is obviously the this highlight. Is a highlight to it? Basically, it’s oh, that was my phone. Don’t worry that was my phone with me also just quickly: okay or Wyman um anyway, let’s see so right. You have this offset weight here, and this is a white here. This is my obviously highlighted white, but forward my shadow. I didn’t actually go with like a grayish tone right now. Imagine right now, if I just undid this, and I changed this color to not the call that I have currently, but I think it was like a grayish tone which is basically like a shadowed color.
It looks okay right, but if it kind of gets rid of that nice cool, look that I had before where it feels like. I have multiple colors when I feels like I have a nice variety of colors. It doesn’t feel as just boring it away right. So what this little like, grayish tone, color just pops out all the other colors and it also obviously is a shadow because it’s the darkest color inside the actual heads like a little highlight right.
So with that being said, I what I choose your when you choose your shadow color, let’s say, but for whatever reason, let’s just make this brown for a second right, let’s just let’s we’re experimenting right now, just so I can give you guys are like an idea Right, let that’s that’s a pretty ugly brown, let’s just say like that: color right now, right and I’m going to say basically say. Usually, I would say, is if you press your eye and a keyboard rings, the actually the I like dropper tool and if you click whatever shape you’re on and then you click with the eyedropper tool on the color that you choose to.
You can select that color right. So if I want to select that brown, you can do that now. What you can do is coarse double click on this layer, color picker. While you have this obviously shaped selected. If you just bring this down a little bit, it makes it into like a shadowed color correct. So if you working with something like this was a color on top of another cup with a shadow, this is where you have to obviously experiment a lot more, but also don’t be afraid to like bring it down somewhere around here and then just see.
How that looks right now obvious looks really weird cuz. This is like that, and this is like that color. So, let’s just quickly figure out something like that right. You can see what’s starting to happen. This also colored needs to be this color. That was a little a little fix that I did great, so you can see what’s happening now right and just so I can see what happens. I make it like a full just different colors, so you can see what happens.
Let’s just make it orange. Maybe how would that look, not terrible, but it’s not that great, but let’s just let’s just say that happens right. So that’s what I say about using your shadows, don’t always make it like just a little darker. You might want to change. The color often make it like a nice obvious shadow darker cause, then the actual fur or feathers and then just kind of work with it right.
So I’m going to go back to my original color scheme. I just want to explain that really quick before actually get into it fully right, and here we go all right cool now we can hide that show all this stuff again and let’s get into the out little shadows here, right, okay, so new layer below the actual Line work but above the actual colors the solid colors is how going to your shadows, of course, right so going to make a new layer right above my B code or my head color and my stroke, color and then, of course, right below my line.
Work. Take my pen tool here and for this it’s sort of my I don’t have like a direction right. I just kind of like follow, like I’m also going to turn this off. While I do this, I was going to follow some angles here, so I’m going to. If I see an angle right here, I’m carving it’s going to go out again and they come in kind of thing. You might have to go back and fix and stuff like that, but that, of course, that’s going to come with after, like basically post of actually doing it and then trying to figure out what will look good.
What does not look great and then sort of like something like this? I might even go all the way down here. Try to change it up, just a little bit right. I probably follow this angle here right like a little indention here. It’s almost like a kind of like a you’re shadowing it you’re shadowing your line, work house I’ll, just call that for now right um. I know this whole thing by the way about how you post, like imagine, a light source correct.
Sometimes you have to think of it all the ways like that like for me, I’ve had success like selling premade stuff, like that, without the whole aspect, if they can give it as like, there’s a light source somewhere. I just put shadows on one side light on the other. That’s my simplest way to like describe it besides, thinking super hard about it and then whatever looks good to you honestly, it’s also whatever looks good to you.
Um, let’s go ahead and just say like this will just follow this angle over there’s well and then so I’m like that, and I think I stopped someone over here, my other one, so I’m going to do the same exact thing and as you can see here, It’s not, I didn’t actually do anything different anything special, I’m just going to distally cut over here and then also follow the inside of the line. Work that way, you’d have to also follow the entire outside right-click.
On this and the where’s my color scheme, it’s down here and also I know this – I just notice that it’s on still and it is which one this color right here right. So there’s my little gradient, I’m not creating color. Just my solid nice little darker color scheme for my shadow for the inside of these feathers are the Eagles feathers head right, the eagle’s head for the feathers there we go alright. So, let’s just say that looks pretty good now I can think like bring this over here as well.
Maybe a little more, I think in my actual one I actually went over here right, so I didn’t see like there’s a little trial error that has to happen, but for now let’s just keep you like that for now, and that’s all so just quickly to do A nice little shadow for this one right here on the inside of his face more and let’s just say like this, like this now, of course, I know I did this over again already so the way I picked it where I picked where I my shadows were Previously we’re just kind of like where I feel like there’s a lot of empty space at and where I feel like I needed to sort of fix it like fix a little bit of this empty space, I’m going to actually go around this way, this time and Say that looks pretty good.
Alright, okay, I’m okay with that, like the thickness as well. If your shadows want to be completely consistent, as you can see, they’re not crazy, consistent, but also gives a lot like a character, but also don’t make it very messy like right. Now I’m going back in and fixing a little bit like the angles here, make sure this angle kind of fouls on the outside with the shadow and then I’ll say this is pretty okay like so now, shadows are pretty much done like this is bothering me so Bad that I don’t actually finish it, let’s just go all the way over here right there we go cool there.
We go all right just so that can just get out the way cuz. It’s just bothered me so hard there. We go alright that’ll work, so there we go, there’s a little shadows right, that’s a shadow part and it’s going to quickly just go ahead and do a very simple, like mmm, like a very simple highlight, just get a little highlight in there right below his beak And we go around, we find a nice little beak for Sue’s a highlight color, which I think we just use solid white.
So that’s going to be right there again and then there we go for our little highlights and shadows on the actual head. So I’m going to go ahead and really quickly as well. Now it’s just finished off with a beak and it’s going to basically just use a different one. Cuz we’re going to use this from head shadows and highlights and highlights, and then we make another layer right above the beak or in below the alignment again.
And we just say I forgot where I put it on this one though, where did I put it? Okay, alright! Alright, let’s see alright, so we’re just start the same as I place again, something like right here right here, I’ll turn this off for now. Please please there we go alright, so we’re going to stuff like this we’re going to go around again and then we just go up a little bit and we’ll go below the line work here and let me take our nice little beak highlight coverage nice, a darker Color, of course, in the beak there’s going to be something like that right and then I also do a little simple it’ll highlight something like this right here.
Also my face is super yellow cuz this right here. Well, if I go to white, you see how that happens. Alright, just see you guys now umm just you can see right here like a little knoweth. How, if you have any nose, highlight give it like a little bit of a shadow. So what I’m going to do is I’m going to just basically click Ram David, nice, a nice little simple little shadow and that can like either make or break I like a little design or whatever, but it gives it just a little more just gives it that Little more or just it’s pretty cool honestly, and also when you saw me do my actual other scheme here was I made a little correction here for like the little line work, so I ended up doing was making a layer right.
I just would. I would just follow on a different angle, because if you try to fall the same angle, trying to get the same exact angle, starting in the middle like right here, if I wanted to try to start here, check out the same exact angle. No matter. What’s going to look weird, so if you’re going to do something like a little correction, just give it like a nice little centimeter or so and then correct it.
So I can make it look something like that. I also use that color there and you see this little weird part here, move it up a little bit there. We go nice little correction, there, that’s what I did in the actual uh preview as well. So as you see this little shadow here looks pretty badass. I like how that looks. Why can’t I click on it? Well, because it’s this one right, there we go, so I I’m going to pretty much say that this is our our mascot.
That’s our mascot! It’s pretty much done so. It took me like about twenty-one minutes to do this, but of course the whole asks like a thing about it. How would your clothes going to be all that kind of stuff? It’s probably not at a 20 minutes rights going to take you a couple days. Maybe it’s in case a couple hours inside the actual illustrator folder. So hopefully you guys enjoy today’s article today.
Now I’m going to put something in the description down below which it’s kind of like a color, picker kind of randomizer, and also it kind of gives you different highlights. You can see different highlights in the actual screen before you actually try to create them inside your little web color picker. Here I forgot what it’s called from the top of my head. That’s I’m going to say I’m going to leave in the description below, but hopefully you guys do enjoy today’s article here today.
Hopefully guys enjoy. Oh, like I know, I said before the whole face camp thing: I’m obviously you guys are enjoying it cuz. You guys are just killing it. You guys love it. So very much lem me just put this in a folder or one full layer to call it done and I’ll call this tutorial head eagle. I could’ve went with eagle when I went with head whatever anyway, so we can enjoy today’s article. I will talk to guys in the next week’s article.
I don’t know. What’s going to be, I think it’s going to be we’re going to go back to batter, tutorials and I’ll, probably just come back in a little design, because I’m having a lot of fun, I got a lot of interaction. It’s just it’s just all around good time. With you guys, when it comes to logo design and hopefully guys do enjoy today’s article, this definitely out beats my last. Like 911 article mine’s probably mask up stuff like that, but I’m going to I’m going to come back to this article and be like dude.
This is not as good as I thought, but right now, I’m thinking it’s really amazing, because that’s where my right now this is where I’m at right now and as he goes, if you guys got like 9 with that, like 9 months back, that’s where I was At with mask I design as Ben – and I thought that was amazing, so this progression using see. That’s why I think, like the beauty of my blog, is I just kind of show you guys the progression of where I’m at and you guys know every single thing how I think of it and what I do, and I really I appreciate that you guys that You appreciate it right, so I’m going to go, get going, it’s not too late.
I got ta go to the gym, still homely. You hope you guys are just jibing it up. They were eating really good. We’re going to take a sip of water and yeah I’ll talk to you, guys mm-hmm. He was necessary. So here’s the next article and wait you out peace, don’t forget to keep smiling stay positive and stay freakin, productive guys later.
Bring you guys a mascot logo tutorial how to create your own cool sort of mascot badge. I sort of stopped right as the point where I get to that little badge, part where we kind of like figure out exactly how I like how to do it. I didn’t really sort of like colorize the actual mascot um at the end of the tutorial, but hopefully I did for the actual beginning of this article here.
So you can at least just see what it looks like, but at least show you guys. The planning of the whole sketch process getting it all good and slide it like sort of like done, and you guys also have to bear to my voice, because I am incredibly sick and I wanted to make sure I got a article out for you guys. It was just it was bugging me a lot, because I woke up at like 3 o’clock in the afternoon, and I knew I just had to focus on the article itself.
I tried like about 15 takes um. I finally got some that was kind of bearable, and my voice wasn’t just hindering me too much, because sometimes I was focused on my voice rather than actually focusing when I was talking about. So I apologize if you guys were just like if it’s like, cringing or whatnot, I apologize. I just know that the article itself is still very good. If should I learn mascot designs and just like overall the sketching process, all that cool stuff, so hopefully guys do enjoy today’s article here today I’ll talk to you guys, hopefully in the next week, where I hopefully am better, I should be.
There should be no reason why I’m not, but just a case of not just know, that’s a heads up and thank you so much for reading. Of course, one likes on the article. He goes a secret down below. I don’t know it’s going to be yet, but I think it’s going to be a giveaway so as soon as I hit 200 likes in the article as long as you guys leave a like on the article and of course comment down your give me your like Your at name, you like I’ll, give you guys the actual mascot that I create in the article here today for free with all your licensing being into you and not to anyone else.
Okay. So what that being said, I’ll talk to you guys later so HQ out. That was my snapchat by the way and I’ll see you guys later see you guys in a second, I mean talk to you guys in a second, alright we’re going to go all right! Guys so a lot of you guys going to wonder exactly how you actually start your mask out of Zions and how you get a pretty good sketch, and I would let you guys know immediately that you’re you’re, really good sketch just kind of starts off with some Kind of reference picture so going to make sure that you have the right idea of what am we were going to be actually doing so.
For me, I actually got a simple little tiger mascot design here, we’re kind of like I just typed in we’ll tiger a profile, image or site Tiger side profile Singh like that – and I got this pretty cool image right here and I will let you guys know That immediately, when it comes to actually doing the actual design or the actual sketch itself, it really just starts off with. I have my little tablet here.
It really just starts off with how easily you can figure out like where these Lions are, and I think the hardest thing to do when it comes to mascot designs, its figuring out, of course, when to start or where to start, which I said before already right. So I just kind of like figure out the plan that I have here, it’s basically kind of just figuring out where the outline of your images. So if you have a shadowed, outline sort of Simula or what you call a city, similar scindia’s senior signa, a cinder would, is it uh a silhouette? There we go.
I think I got a little silhouette, basically mm-hmm. If I just find an outline here, I’m going to sort of like right here. If I just say if I outlined this tiger right here right where it’s like little lines, you can see very very easily. This is the easiest you can ever get when it comes to mascot designs, if you just outline the actual shadow or the actual silhouette of the animal itself, no matter what you do after this will, hopefully not hinder or sort of like mess you up like any.
Like any more than it should right so when it comes to areas like this right here, if you’re doing something like, I of course, I’m doing a personal doing a cat like a cat family kind of mascot design. Here, what I’m mostly kind of, also focusing on the head itself, if you find areas like this or you get stuck because you don’t, you know, you’re going to like this right, you’re going to like figure out.
That’s what I want to have it a lot of you guys. I see a lot of you guys when you guys tweeted out yo. So so what do you think of my little mascot design sketch here and you guys do some like this or just like super super weird, and you got something like multiple little things here. Let me let you guys know that mmm sort of like less is way more. So if I kind of like same but just do one and then two less is way way more so ready to do that.
That’s pretty perfect! If I just bring this down here, like I said, I’m going to be doing just basically a head itself, I’m going to come up here for a second right and I’m going to just come over a year and then kind of this freehand and just like. Do the exact same thing I did over here, but it’s a more bigger sort of strokes that way I kind of fill off that back side of the head, and I get this really cool line right here as well.
So after do that, of course, I’m going to outline this little eerie here up here as well, just loud line this just like so, and that will be pretty dang good now, once you’ve done this before, I’m pretty sure a lot of you guys start with this And just like: okay, I’ve done this already. Why do I always mess up, or why does my sketches not come out the way I see other people do them and it’s cut because for one quick little tip never do your second outliner.
This is just your first outline if I just really quickly made this black the outline black get got rid of my picture. You can probably see what’s going on here, but has the back looks a little bit like sonic, but in my original sketch that I did for the speed R itself, you need to see that I kind of made it more realistic or not realistic, more sort of, Like doesn’t look like Sonic, you can immediately see this is some sort of animal.
This is some sort of like um. You know cat family in the cat, family, origin or whatnot. It’s a tiger. It’s a Puma, it’s whatever it could be right now, but since I have this really cool silhouette, it can’t be anything else. So as long as you don’t mess around with the inside of this line here before you do your outline, then no matter what you do is it should be pretty okay. So if I say to myself what I’m going to do next isn’t going to work on the outside here right, I’m going to work on the outside and just do a simple little sketch or simple little sort of like follow along the outside with a very nice Little spacing between and then make sure I have all these lines still kind of thought around with.
So if I do this right here, I do this right here just like, so I’m going to just stop right there for a second, because for one what I would like you to do is not work in the inside right. If I work on the inside here, you can immediately see that no matter what this is where my line would be right, if I just kind of like color this in for a second, those are, my line would be and they’re going to get really really very Antsy and very weird, when it comes to your your, how do you call your perspectives? Because if you made your eye right here as well, then you’re not actually getting the right sort of ratio like? I, like your your eye to outline ratio, because if you did this, then you physically, like pushed your eye over way too far to the left, and then things like over here, you do with the ear is just going to look very, very awkward and weird.
So if, as long as you do your outline or it’s supposed to be on the outside like right here, alright, let’s just call this in right here, because I just want to do one more thing before I just show you guys. The speed are over my voice because homie is like dying inside. Ok, just something like that for now. Let’s just leave that for like right there right now. So right here is where I would say: let me just quickly show you guys again make it black again.
Zoom this out, you can sorta see that this is still, of course, getting really really good. So now that I have this outline here now, of course, if I made this outline all the way through it look a little bit more better, but just like pretend for a second but we’re just like working on this left side right now for a second um, You can definitely tell that it’s coming out pretty ok. Now, one thing when it comes to animals are sees me not knowing when it comes so sort of like lions or whatever like animals.
I have like noses, like cats, wise um, the way that we really go really quited. Do this right. I just make this wait again, a little more smaller zoom in for a second things like these are the noses here. You just do a simple little, almost like a shield right, if I just make a like a shield right there and then what color that in right, it’ll, look really good in a second and I might just kind of copy this little little pattern he has in His little whiskers patterns – let’s just do one right here and one right here again there we go.
I looks pretty good now, let’s just quickly make it all black and then zoom it out for a second. You can start to see that looks pretty freakin cool. So it’s very simple right: if you find yourself struggling with some some kind of shapes and comes to your nose, make it a sort of like a silhouette or make it the like make it blacked out, make it the actual line, work and the reason why I Say that is is because something like right here is what I did in my final sketch like right here in the bottom.
You can see. This is like it’s a little bottom lip break here. So, like my little green or like outline, that’s just bottom lip right. Like kind of like right, you can cytosine. This is bottom lip. So if I say to myself, if I left this entire area like how you saw it before like negative space, there’s a lot of lotta a lot of negative space on the inside of his head, which is not what you want to have, you want to make Sure you have a lot of line work on the inside of his head as well, but I’ll show you guys in a quick little.
Second, of course, is that as well, but if you kind of find yourself strong with that, do something like this, where you kind of color all in and make his bottom lip kind of like fill some that negative space in and also kind of like help. You guys out, if you guys, could have figured out how to do it, make sure it’s kind of like almost masking or kind of giving you a free out. So you kind of see that right there that looks pretty badass too so um one more thing.
I would like to say before I kind of move on at this part here is eyes. Now, I’m not the best at eyes myself. I don’t even hear me saying that every time I do a mask at Oriel, but if you find yourself doing eyes, let’s just like we kind of like move that around here right, if you find yourself doing eyes, you’re, not entirely sure if you want to have Them floating or not, because sometimes for me, I think floating eyes are just very very weird.
I have started to do like coming in from the left side and then kind of like doing some like this, like giving it some sort of like, like almost like a raccoon like look to it. But of course it’s not a raccoon. Excuse me: it’s not a raccoon Jesus, it’s not a raccoon, it’s a freaking tiger, so it’s a vicious animal that doesn’t sound. Anything like I do um, let’s go ahead and kind of like code that all in for a second, of course, if you take your time on this, you get a really good image that I have on my actual final image here.
If I just want to quickly show you guys right something like that they’re very simple, you can do something that comes in from the outside or Sue’s me in from the left hand, side or whatever side you’re working with. If your nose is on the right hand, side just come in from like decided like the top of his nose, bring it in and like make it kind of his eye as well. So I make this all black. You know to see that account looks pretty badass.
Now, of course, this is not done here, so if I wanted to check just quickly kind of outline, this alright, just like so and that right there and this line is this right here. So one thing is well that I like to mention you see this line right here, that I’m working with don’t ever have lines like that on the inside of your sketch, because what that is is telling that use me. What that is saying is that you’re missing something very, very crucial in the inside of your sort of like your your face right, your mascots face you’re missing something very crucial.
If you have any floating lines around that, don’t actually connect, then there’s something wrong right. What I mean by that is: what is this lying? In actual how you’re going to pinch of this line? I want everything else. Is super thick we’re going to make that line super thin, not exactly it’s because you’re missing it you’re missing out on that line right there. So what I would do once I finish this right here right once.
I finish this right here. Let’s just say: that’s pretty! Okay for now make that black, so you could see what it looks like right. This line right here is when I was referring to. I just kind of like bring this up simply just could make it just make sure it looks complete if there’s like lines like if I had whiskers like weird little whiskers like that, that’s not going to do you any good, not at all right if you’re going To make whiskers make them actual shapes right, don’t make them just boring lines, make them actual shapes so that they look like actual whiskers and you won’t be lost when you actually do the pen tooling, because that’s where a lot of you guys are going wrong.
Yours are figuring out or you scissor, you guys are just like sort of like missing out on shapes. So if I just make this all black again right, you got actual whiskers. You got some actual ear action over here and there’s a lot of negative space right here. This guy saw on my speeder or you guys will see my speeder. I had this sort of area right here kind of like mess around with. I had something like this, where it was like.
I had a like one of these things like come very very far in and just like that, and also I kind of copied, the sort of not copied in a way, but I kind of referenced his little pattern lines how they go super super far into his Head, I kind of made sure that I kind of followed that aspect to it. So when I did do one of these things that it looked at least somewhat okay right I’ll make this before I do that sure you guys make it pure black just like, so you can sort of see that this is coming out like a really cool.
Looking cat animal, it’s not exactly Tiger like just yet, because there’s not a lot of cool things like like right here. If I just kind of like figure out – and you do this on a new layer, if you want, if you have a tablet right like make something, come out a little bit more make like maybe like little things like coming like this right or something like that Comes up over here, you can get really wild with it, but of course the tiger has these little like little pattern.
Stripes like this, so if you want to just get in there kind of add those little things make sure you add them in a way that also connects the outside, because otherwise you’re feeling really awkward and floaty right. So I’ll just quickly show you guys this make it pure black. You can see it’s looking more like a tiger now right. So hopefully, as you understand that I’m going to show you my like little, you know speed art version of it or have it playing right.
Now, because what’s happening is I’m doing the same exact thing, I’m doing just an outline and then of course making that outline into an actual line and then I’m focusing on the inside and then I’m going to basically just figure out what I’m going to do on The inner part, because for one what I also did do is I did use the pen tool to fix out any lines if you ever find yourself kind of like like kind of not getting it with your your tablet or your pencil, just uh.
If you’re doing it on your screen itself kind of like this is only what’s going to be for, but if you’re doing like a sketch in Photoshop or in paint or whatever the heck, you guys use it for or it’s on, Samantha pen tool use the pen Tool to get your lines, otherwise you just kind of like wasting your time because of course you have the access to a pen tool. Why not just use the pen tool lines, don’t always focusing on or having to do it on just using your your tablet, or only having a user pencil, it’s just a sketch.
It’s just to make sure that you can get the reference images, the shadow itself of that animal, because otherwise just going to look really awkward so right there. I think it’s pretty good. As you can see, I probably saw and like the severe I know well how to put the speed art in so I’m like I’m, really kind of cue myself in like yo speed away here, but um you’ll see it looks really really cool, looks pretty badass as Well, so I’m going to do now is I’m going to simply just either scan it? If I’m doing it on this piece of paper or understandingly, save this image here, drag it right into illustrator and I might get going in there and you’ll see it.
It’s going to be super simple as well: alright, homies now that I have my actual sketch inside illustrator. Now I mean I’ll. Let you guys know one thing: if you guys are in Illustrator, and you kind of like say to yourself that you cannot physically see where you can start penciling or where your pencils going to be out with every little mark that you have here, then there’s something Wrong your sketch, like I said before, if you have any floating lines, you need to seriously go back into actual Photoshop or into your sketchbook, and understand that every line that you do should have a shape to it.
It should not just be a line; it should be line, work, which means basically something that actually you can actually refer to, not that just something you can just sort of say: okay, I’m going to figure it out when I’m in there, because if you do that, Then there’s something wrong with your direction and it’ll be something wrong overall, your design at the end of it. Now I’m also not saying that I’m perfect at this, but I’m going to say that I can like.
I can say that you know each little premium that I do gets over life injure like sand and 300. You know 30 likes or 100 retweets of like that, so it does really good. So I get to receive very, very well, but I’m not going to speak for like the mascot coming yeah, I’m not a boss and I’ve been doing for like eight months. But what I can say is that if you do start off with that outline and like really figure out what you’re going to be doing with the outside of it and then figuring out the inside little things about that, like things about the actual image itself or Things about the actual mascot, an amulet you’re doing it’s going to be just a lot easier for you, so right away, I’m going to some just pin to this thing out here.
This is not going to be what like hard whatsoever right. Just simply just say around turn off everything and I simply start on the outside alone, just like so right. Also, okay, I see this a lot actually a lot of like little uh, so like 20 hours, sort of like 20 hours an hour, light little lessons and stuff like that. They usually go above 20 hours or so an hour when it comes like 20 hours, whatever it doesn’t matter, but I do lesson is something that with mascot designs – and I thought a lot of you guys understand when it comes to like doing your little ears.
You guys don’t actually like make a point. It should be like literally two clicks or three clicks. It should always start where it like. Does this little loop here you want to click there. This is I’m going to take this and drag it simply. So it has a nice little simple, arch click on the point again and then three should be one right here. Okay, I see a lot of you guys do something like I don’t know.
I don’t even know how you guys even think about it, but you guys do like I don’t know. Sometimes you just use like this. It should not be like a little. It should be a straight line for one it shouldn’t be like um. You know like something just like really crazy and just quirky. It shouldn’t have to be all this like just make it 1. 2 3 is simply 1 or you know. That’s one this one me here’s 2, and this is 3 right just like so, and I just going to keep going now, so I’m just going to go ahead and just do something like this bring this down here, bring this up and Adam.
I should just do like this right, just like so bring that to there bring this around here. So it’s a lot of clicking and dragging it should be very, very miniscule click. So, if you can see, I did like this entire loop right here in two clicks. Some guys might be like you know one. You know two three four be very, very precise when it comes to your pen tooling, so I’m going to say, of course, click and drag to get that first angle: this’ll, just click all the way up here.
This line right here, these curves that you see like a lot of times you might see in your sketch, you can do those very very easily with just something like this remember as well, that your sketch isn’t perfect. This pen tool has better sort of angled lines by default than your hand does, but you’ll have to get exactly on the line. So let right there is perfect for me, I’m going to keep on going in here, and I’m just so like so bring this over.
Here bring this down here and then just like that end it over here with a nice little finger here, so that’s the outside. So this is what we’re going to just have that right there right! So when I’m done the outside, I’m going to then focus on the insides I’m going to quickly just speed out the inside, because it’s a lot more curves. I don’t have much to talk about. Nor do I have much energy to talk, but um I’m going to quickly.
I don’t know what the nice I quickly just pencil this out right here as well and I’ll get you I’ll get back to you guys I’ll. Just speed. Alright, really quick, again see exactly. I’m going to be doing all right, alright guys, so I just finished penciling out my stuff here. So what I did was, I turned off all my stroke lines, but you can still see if I highlight over here, you’ll see that are all still visible here.
So I’m going to do is on the quiddity turn on a black I’ll. Just turn on black right here. Right well, going to do is going to use shift m key on my keyboard. That brings up the shape builder tool, as you can see right here. So if you can see this little plus button next to your mouse, if you just hold alt the Alt key on your keyboard, you’ll see that plus button just to a minus button. So you can do.
Is you can just pen tool out or doesn’t just click on the minus button right in the insides over you pen tool before I get rid of this right here and now I have this very. Very nice clean super nice sketch of this nice little. It’s hi. It’s a tiger right, I don’t know, looks more like a Puma to me, but of course this is just like a 20 minute sketch. So I had I didn’t get the exact all features that I want able to.
So it’s pretty good um so looks like a cat which is good um, so yeah, that’s right there right. So the whole point of this article for me was just kind of like figure out how to put this inside a little shield, because I’ve been doing that. Quite a lot recently and my next premiere is going to be actually doing the exact same thing, there’s going to quickly fix a little things here. I shouldn’t be worrying about this very much, but I was just bobbling the hell out of me now.
I should bother me more alright, whatever mostly like that please just a DD OCD. What is it called anyway? That’s, okay! Alright! No! It’s not! Alright! That’s fine! So, basically, what I would do is to make a shield here. Is I’m going to just quickly unhide that make a nice new layer right here? Well, you can either do. Is you can use Google? You can Google, like you, know shield, icons or something like that or shield pngs.
You can find some really cool-looking shields, usually like the most simplest one you’ll probably see is, if I just quickly take out ruler, so I can just get like a little middle reference here. So pretend this is the middle of our stuff right here, but it’s just like this like this will do like this. This, no that’s weird! Let’s just do a simple like down / kind of thing right if I just connect the middle here, let’s just make sure it’s on the line, so someone the middle right, that’s on the line, and now that is on the line as well.
So now I’m going to do yours, it’s going to make it a color just like so I’m going to get rid of this little guard grid line guidelines. Use me I’m going to go ahead. Reflect it vertically connect these two things right here, I’m going to simply click on both of these little shapes here by holding shift and then bring up the Pathfinder which is located right over here, and it’s going to bring up this table for you guys right here.
So the first one is combine or slash unite your shapes. If I click this it’ll make this one single shape now so now I can do now is, if you want to, you, can then turn off the fill here, turn on the stroke and then put on a line stroke here. If you guys, don’t have your stroke options, of course, windows, stroke and you’ll find yourself located right here this table. If you guys going to have all these options, you can just do right.
Click on the top right and then show your options align stroke and put that on the inside. Here, I’m just going to make this big now, so I’m going to make this somewhere like a pretty good thickness I’ll, say right about. There is pretty good, I think so you can do is that this is one stroke right now right. If I try to change the color of the fill, it’s not actually a shape. So if I were to like cut things out, if I just sit like this really quickly, let’s just make this actual thing.
A fill right. First I’ll highlight this and try to cut this out like so. It’s not actually shapes it’s going to cut out like an actual stroke line. So going to do is about really quickly is delete that I’m going to click on this, I’m going to go to object, expand appearance just like so now it’s actually a shape, so you can see down here. It’s no longer a stroke and you see that the actual fill path is I’m actually on its going to do now.
I’m going to take my little mascot face here, I’m just going to shrink this down. I’m going to bring this on the inside of here. Just like so now, if I really want to, I can kind of like go back and make this a little more longer down there whatnot. But what are say for the sake of the tutorial, I’m going to keep it like right around here and I’ll say right about there is pretty good. So what I can do now is going to click on both of these two images here and then use my shape builder tool.
Again, click right here, click right there I’ll say: that’s pretty! Okay. Number, of course, fill this back layer. If that same exact color right there – and I think that looks pretty badass, so what I did right there isn’t this on this sheep right here either you can just simply just pentool around it and then use the same fill color. So you guys just see it’s the same, fill of color or what I did was this.
I know all these lines are closed here. If you just highlight both of these things here or shift-click on both of them press your shift, m key and then without holding your Alt key, if you just hold the no no key at all and it’s just regular shape builder tool, it’s going to immediately just Click once you click as an add a shape in there, for you guys, right away and then what I can do, make a new layer below everything, alright, just going to go ahead and just click on out.
Let’s turn this off for a second: let’s click on the outside brandon I can, I can click on any of the inside, so I’m going to make sure I follow the line. Work, which is a great thing about line work is a blessing, is when you actually do. Colors you only have to do is just make sure you don’t click on the inside, so this is pretty easy. All right, I’m going to make sure I use some sort of really cool like like a oranjee kind of color, something like that have an orange in there without – and this is a really weird color here – I don’t want this like.
I want a nice little kind of like a blue like a blueish black. That looks a lot better in my opinion, let’s make this orange little more easier to deal with. So I’m like that’s, that’s not that bad ass looks like a snow leopard right now. I want to stop right there pretty much, because this is time tutorial, which is basically kind of figuring out how to actually put a mascot sort of inside a cool little shield.
Now, of course, if you guys want to learn how to do like more coloring stuff, I’ll have a simple part for you, guys that works just as easy. That’s only like two months, older or like two to three months old, but it works just the same exact way. I don’t change anything very much of my mascot tutorials, but what I wanted to do is, of course, kind of like refresh your memories, and if I didn’t do that, then I’ll show you guys how I do this little cool little shield trick right here.
If you have just used a little ahead, which kind of helps you guys out, if you guys don’t want it’s just a simple little floating head, which I think is like kind of lame at some points, but so if as it just has to work, but this Time it looks pretty cool like this, so you can have a whole bunch of different shields and just make it look like this really cool little part right here or just kind of like the shield is coming in or the CZ the head is just coming in Which is pretty badass, so I’m going to say I’m a going to just add the tutorial here, for my sake, um.
Hopefully you guys, like I said I refresh them your memories when it comes to like how to create your own mascot tutorial or season your mascot design. At least you guys some more ideas on how to act, restore your sketching process, just all that stuff now I know my voice was like just like ridiculous, and you probably please out the article already, but I did not want to lose my streak of uploading and I also didn’t want my voice to be the only reason.
I know my body aches and whatnot, but I just wanted to make sure I get some kind of article out for you guys, because you guys wait an entire week every single week to come back and then show that love. So, of course, I want to show my love and just showing that I can suffer through a article. You know an hour and a half two hours, three hours recording and trying to get the best takes as possible, and that’s just how it’s going to go.
I also wanted to kind of do a little highlight right here for just a circle if I use a circle – and I put like some kind of like highlight right in here – something like this – I’m quickly just show you guys really quick right. If I do a little circle and then click right there and let’s make sure that we don’t click any of the in science, here’s makes that white. So on this circle, let’s just make this a little bit more lighter and get like a little cool.
Little highlight or make a darker see that looks pretty cool. I mean it can look pretty cool either way. You do it. Hopefully, ever I’ll probably return back to this tutorial here when I do more stuff like this, but I’ve already going further next time. But until then that’s what you guys later, it’s Soh q out do not forget to keep smiling stay positive and stay freakin, productive guys later I’m going to go to bed it’s only like 8:30.
Okay I’ll see you guys peace out later love you kisses! Thank you for bearing with me
It is your voice in here, because a article here today, Rena is really cool. I guess you would say illustrator mainly, but there’s a little bit of Photoshop in here to UM story today, so I guys how to make it your own, really cool. I like urban brushstrokes, sort of logo designs and my inspiration for this would be the 100. These logo – I don’t know why I’m so obsessed that logo um, but like it’s really cool right.
So here’s just so you guys can get a look of it right. So my inspiration was sort of having like really cool brushstrokes. You know accents to your lines and whatnot, so in Mexico, like it’s very like abstract, I kind of herb and kind of really just cool with, like it’s just like written out and like a really cool script. Like way, I had a client who previously approached me with this logo, and I was just like hey: is there a way we can resemble this in a certain way and I’m just like, I actually don’t know entirely how to do it, but we figured it out In the long run, and not in something I didn’t know how to do, it was just how having it perform.
It be a little bit faster and quicker, rather than just really being really minuscule, with the the way that a brushstroke would actually act rather than actually, you know kind of like doing it by hand, and you know you won’t really get that aesthetic feeling that you Know it does what you can. You have to be like a brush font and whatnot. So that’s where this comes in handy right, so we have uh.
This is our little example here I just made a C logo really quickly. Just like you know kind of script. It out, as you guys saw on the Photoshop and whatnot good ol C logo. I guess I put a little two dashes on it and we’re going to call it claw right, cuz, like a little scratch, um yeah. As you can see, this, has this really cool little feel to it and just like it just gives it a little more character to it, and I think it’s really cool for if anyone wants to you know have that you know I guess ability to go ahead And perform or like a really cool brush stroke logo.
It’s really something to have in your arsenal right and I’ll, keep in mind as well that I’m using only one fun of like literally millions of different brush fonts. You can use to help illustrate this concept. So keep that in mind as well, and I’m going to start off inside Photoshop, for you guys we’re going to move into there something quickly, just really quick, little rundowns um. That way, we kind of get that whole thing started and just running into illustrators.
Really it’s a really tedious process, but it’s so much quicker, rather than kind of like really just trying to like make your mind. Think abstract. I also trying to make a certain thing. It’s really difficult trust me and I’m going to make it seem easy for you guys, so let’s go ahead and just jump into Photoshop and let’s get this thing going. Okay, so as for my quick rundown inside Photoshop, I do have my tablet in hand by the way it’s like the the $ 70 sort of Best Buy tablet.
You guys would get it’s just. What is I forgot, what it’s called, but it so calm like in into well. How do you say hi, you guys know what I’m talking about. However right, so let me go ahead. Just show you guys really quickly how I would go about it now. I have this really cool brush. I literally cannot remember when I found this brush, because I remember it took me literally an hour to find a brush.
That kind of like, like my mindset, had it, and I had something in my mind right and it took me forever to find it starts with PAP underscore zero. I will give you guys this one I’ll make sure I reference it I’ll try to find out. I hope there’s like a direct dialing. I can like see in the dye your brush um file, but yeah. This is a brush that I use and this brush here, but you don’t really need a tablet.
However, you know just having lunch is a little more handy for you, I mean you can still kind of illustrate like this. Is me doing the see again, you know you can still kind of illustrate the same thing. If you just have like a nice state of your hand, I would say right for your um with your mouse and whatnot, so you don’t really need a tablet. You can still create some very, very cool. You know, abstract, you know, kind of fun.
Looking brush sort of you know, logos and whatnot, which is kind of like free handing it if you guys wish to, but I did do it using the actual brush that it’s located right here now. Leave that and switch for you guys to use and all that good stuff and now, like yeah, I’m just using my tablet now and you kind of just see it gets a little more smoother, it’s a little more fun you can kind of, like you know, really Work, your angles work you’re, pretty much everything when it comes to like kind of having that, like literal freedom of of that, that actual hand motion right rather than trying to do it with a mouse.
So if there’s an investment you want to have, I would think you know a tablet is definitely it there’s no way. Oh you know, you don’t know you meat, and so you don’t have a kind of thing right. So yeah, that’s pretty much like really all. I really want to go ahead and illustrate for you guys, but I already have this claw thing where I’m going to use the same exact one as before. So not the oyster, okay start time kind of make something else up on, because it’s literally just I just kind of made it up right.
So I want to go ahead and just kind of say once you kind of finish drawing it we’re just do an A and like a bee, trying to look cool right. Let’s just do a bee. This is a Navy logo. So I was like hey. I want a Navy logo and I want to uh seize now what you go ahead and just kind of make this look like a brush like thing and then, for example, 100. These also 100, these logo – or this like claw, a little logo here right.
So the way I would go about this is by the way, if you have multiple layers, if you need, because if you want to do like some little accents like I’m about to try to do for a second like just little little accent marks right here and Here and there and whatnot kind of having like little things, if you guys want to you, know, have fun with and whatnot, but if you do have multiple layers, just merge them all together right, because we’re going to be doing is I’m going to take my claw.
I’m going to press ctrl, J and then ctrl e ctrl J is going to actually duplicate the entire group for us and then ctrl he’s going to merge it all together and then all you would have to do is actually just take this claw copy, throw it Right in the illustrator, as a matter of fact, we’ll turn off this little white background, because we have a black brush I’ll turn that off the claw example as well, and let’s go ahead.
Hmm actually, is it inside this yeah. The image is inside the example. So let’s drag that out here: it’s locked, okay, relax, let’s open it and drag it in there! There we go now! So if I were to go ahead and take this and we’re going to make this a little bit bigger right cool, what you can do is image trace it. This is uh. This is one of those things that I kind of don’t do very often, but when it comes to like these kind of logos, it would help out quite a bit right if you kind of have a a quick vector of it and also kind of keep that Brush like feel to it, I’m so I’m going to just click on this image here we’re going to go to object, image trace, make it expand and immediately it just takes our is there’s a table with this right.
I forgot how to open the table. There’s a table if you have a certain color, my voice is like going for some reason. If you have a certain color that you want to kind of pick out, there is a way to, of course, like how do you say: uh different de fishery de fishery. There Fisher different de fishery if defit differences differentiate. Oh that must be it differentiate. That’s a hard word: okay, let’s go ahead, and just like okay, whatever anyway, there’s a way to uh, help yourself and pick the right color for it until then right.
This is a very, very simple it of course, kind of quickly leave that same little. Maybe if you had like a certain brush kind of, I guess, like you know, wiggle and whatnot, our brush kind of accent or whatever, like you, may have a nice little flow to it doing. This would be just very simple, very easy for you and as well just so you know, there’s a white back, I’m so behind this right, so we got to get rid of that as well.
Okay, so now that we have this part done, this is pretty much like that cool part. This actually looks pretty cool so like I’m not going to lie like that, does look pretty badass and if you kind of like look over here at the hundred things logo, if we just zoom in a little bit, you can kind of see the resemblance of the Matter of fact that they probably did use image, trace and whatnot all right, I’m not going to call out or whatever it’s just I’m just literally kind of like referencing as what I kind of see if they might have using a trace.
So I feel like going to be a good idea as well to use it as well so right. So we can’t have this looking right here right, but you’re going to say to yourself. I kind of want it to look a little bit more cooler a little bit more aesthetic error, I’m going to need some kind of really cool font. Now, of course, I told you guys in the brush pack brush the font pack we’re going to be using this beautiful font called cog font right.
It’s up here now. The reason why I chose this font cuz. I personally wanted this font and I one other client – and I was like hey – is this a nice little cuz we’re looking at the ends of the farmer, I’m looking at currently the ends of the font. You know some of the side marks here and it was like yeah. That’s perfect, that’s exactly what I’m kinda looking for. So me thinking. This would be incredibly difficult to try to illustrate and get perfectly right.
You know and make it look as abstracted and as still as clean as possible. It’s like a brush wood. That blew my mind. I was like there’s no entire way. That would be able to illustrate this. The way it should be right so using a font is not a bad deal. So, of course, if I were, if I were you if I would check up. Finally, I wasn’t haven’t already guys didn’t download in my brush pack, I’m kissing brush pack, my font pack.
However, if you guys wants you of course, going to find a common type in like brushes like brush fonts and water, you get some really cool ones as well. This is just one that apply. You know kind of applied to me and I really like this one. As well so if I were to go look at my if I were to go ahead – and I look at my logo here and I’m going to say, there’s a couple curves here that maybe if I put in a C I’ll, get something like right here, where I can kind of have that part on this right left hand side here kind of curve here, but maybe that’s not enough.
Maybe a J would work here for this little hook right. Here’s what I would say right and I were to, of course, already kind of went through and kind of know the letters that I want to go for. But you can just kind of like envision a certain amount of letters that kind of have a curve which are be looking forward. I have that applied naturally right. So, of course, an e here right to kind of have that so I’ll have these little marks here, but, except for have the same exact little uh.
How would you say, like the exact same Emaar going on over here, because how you see how C has a little bit different mark here? You see how J has a little bit of different mark here. Let’s go ahead and just type in like I forgot what I did actually, but let’s go ahead and see X. Maybe X has a different like little part. There. Maybe M does right you’ll just kind of kind of go through and let me say, L the same one as well.
You, okay, so you it seems like it has a lot more longer jokes here, but it’s definitely different than the e in the. U here right. So this is where, of course, having multiple fonts or multiple different items, and hopefully I mean. Hopefully you have multiple letters in the font itself, but you know just kind of having that be a game plan right, so go ahead and start off with the e first or Chester all for the e we’re going to make this fairly big for now right and If you guys did not know already, I was going to take it that so I can just have that always on hand and pretty much.
I click over here. If you guys it, I’m already going to take a font into an actual object by just going to object, expand just like so make sure the expand object is on and the expand fill is on you, press, okay, and, as you guys didn’t see, you guys will Have now a vectorized version of the font itself, so you see some of these little floaty pieces here, I’m going to delete these for now. I don’t want to have too many floaty pieces to kind of like manage and handle right some of these little smaller ones.
Probably like not realistic to have inside your your-your-your, alright cuz, it’s not going to be able to be seen to well. Alright! So just take some of these things out, but uh just say right there, it’s pretty good! Now I’m going to go ahead and take my pen tool and I’m going to say I’m going to. We want this right-hand side of the e right, so I’m go ahead and take my pen tool kind of just kind of just make it like a little slash going down right.
This separation here is very, very common. It’s just kind of like you know hey. This indicates when I go ahead and highlight if I press a – and I highlight these two things that indicate so there’s two different shapes going on here now, because we have a slash going through with the pencil mark that we just created. So if I were to go to Windows and go ahead and go to path, finder you’ll see if I go ahead, not path, finder you’re, going to need all that stuff in a second.
But I don’t know why. I said that, but just that’s also thing you want to have, but it’s Shave shape builder tool, which is shift a manner keyboard which is located right. Here is the way to kind of help. Your illustrator, you know, cut things out that are separated right or you want to separate or, or you want to, you know, take out or apply a different object to whatever you guys understand right.
This is a plus button right here and, if you’ll hold also there’s a minus one, if I were to click, it would actually delete it. If I hold nothing – and I just click just like I’m going through right now in this right-hand side – it’ll go ahead and separate the shapes for us and there we have this right. So I want to kind of say I’ll leave all this extra extra stuff and, let’s take everything, that’s pretty much what I would probably want right, which is really all just the stuff that’s connected, that’s already vectorized and all that good stuff.
Um I’m going to go ahead now, and this is where the tricky part comes in right, so the the whole keeping and natural things going to be really hard. That’s like all right, I guess keeping the right, fonts and mine would help you know kind of lining up certain like lines were here, so it kind of like flows better. But then you have all this empty space here. Somehow that just say hey, let’s just say if we hold ctrl and then you naturally your hold shift right and like make it bigger and smaller.
But this time I’m going to kind of flirt with it around and kind of make it bigger and smaller on our own see what happens if you put it over here Ryan, I’m going to highlight this entire thing, I’m going to say we can actually cut out With a shape builder tool right, holding alt cut out some of these spots here and if you say like it’s really, you can see how this is really big. Like a bulge of you know black going on here and you want to say hey, I doesn’t really look that brush mark that we want to have highlight all again.
You can take it hold alt get inside here, delete some of the stuff that you think needs to be deleted. If you want to have a little more extra here, you want to have it flow into here. You want to have it flow into there. You just want to have certain little things float just like, so I’m like a like a paintbrush would right. You would have like certain spots it to get painted over, but then you can get something like this right and this looks way more natural weight just way.
Fun, I guess you would say uh how you say way fun all right, let’s use English, but you know just more natural and a very appealing, you know urban kind of look to an account looks really really nice right. So that’s like the one part of the e and we just kind of like expand a little bit just holding ctrl and just kind of figuring things out, and I would just do it one more time. But this is pretty much the rinse and repeat process that you guys would go with I’m going to delete this one.
We’re going to take this we’re going to tape in, let’s just say, geez, pretty cool asses black. Hmm, I think we’re just going to go with like a little bit of a C and say cut this out and kind of have that be on the the the see that we have so okay, we’re going to take a seat object, expand it cuz. I forgot to let that was going for it, but whatever we’re going to take the pen tool, split that in half, just like so again highlight it like before shift em on our keyboard for the shape ability which is located right here once again, click on it Take it out we’re going to leave all the extra flingy foggy stuff cuz, that’s not probably really illustrating, and it really just see that very well in a logo anyway.
So we’re going to take this now, I’m going to just go ahead and flip it vertically. No yes, okay, I go and see if I can, like kind of have it just a little extra some something going on at this little curve here. Alright, we’re trying to make it look a little fun kind of have expanded up a little bit more. Okay. Let’s see if we want to maybe do a little more as well alright, so I got something like this just going to overlap it, I’m going to go ahead and highlight it again with the a tool which is basically what does a tool called again.
The selection tool right, deluxe, yeah direct session tool and I’m going to press shift M, take the shape builder tool, and I just cut in some of these spots on – will delete this, and we wouldn’t want that. Maybe we want to have something like fun going on. Like they like in here, a little something going on here and here that looked pretty cool for like a seat, got rid of a lot of things. Oh jeez, that’s alright! Alright! That was my phone by the way.
Um, let’s see maybe like making you a little bit more skinnier kind of getting in here, but this is like a literal, the tedious part right. If I kind of wish I had it a little more, you know, in my mind, said I was going to go for, but this is actually not bad at all this little hard curve. He will just curve it in with the the good old. I don’t know what this tool would be called officially but, like the curve angle tool, sure we’re going to call it that or you can just like delete some points here and see if we can get.
You know a nice, something that looks disgusting. Ah yeah we’re going to go into here again take the minus tool or if I were to press minus on the keyboard and then we get so I’m a little bit better going on here. So a little bit better. You can get in here again kind of delete this kind of stuff here, let’s make more natural marks right, take this again and maybe we’ll make this little curve a little bit better.
Well, yeah, it’s a little bit too tedious from to do at the moment, but as you can see, that see looks pretty cool now, like a little backsplash curve. That’s going in here the little brush mark and you can just keep on going. You know you can keep on going out like right here would be a want to apply to up here. Art apply to as well times to stick a brush in kinda circle. Yeah like up here, I’d apply to over here.
You do some really cool things over here as well and like you, of course, probably do the same thing with the e over there, and if you want to you, see how, like the back of some of these letters, have these really fun little uh sort of Like vivid kind of patterns going on, you can definitely just apply that kind of stuff over on the you know the size of the logos, if you guys wanted to do that as well with the hairs for my example, as you can see it once again, right And it’s just really fun really cool.
It’s a really attractive way to go ahead and just go approach. Your logos and stuff like that, if you were it’s, just really cool, to have in the back of your play, if you you had a client II was just like, we can ask them that looks like this and you just not entirely sure how to do it Without you know, putting an excessive amount of time in it or just getting the exactly they might have had if they showed you a font and you’d be like hey, I could actually make a custom letter and then apply the font that he gave me and kind Of give you know that you know abstract sort of brushed, look to it and kill the game.
So hopefully you guys enjoyed today’s article here today. It was very fun, very cool right. I think it was a really cool thing just to have in your as a logo, designer and stuff and just have fun with it out the brush. By the way I put in the scription down below, like I said before and yeah, if you guys end up using it, please tweet at me ask to HQ if you have anything really cool that just kind of like applied to this tutorial.
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Okay, not just the point itself. Why is my illustrator, like it’s all your fault huh? I just I’ve, never had a loser to crash. You know what is going on guys, it’s your boy. It says so here bring us a article here today, bringing guys and illustrate ok illustrator tutorial how to create your own cool, little serif sort of logo design. Also, I got my voice back.
I didn’t promise it last week, but it came back to me about two days ago, which is pretty cool um, so yeah I’m going to teach you guys how to make some cool little serif, fonts um. So, just in case, you guys are the little difference between a serif and a sans serif for like food-for-thought, a kind of thing or, like you kind of need to know this kind of thing um. This is more like a this right. Here is more like a sans serif right.
If you guys are know what serif star regardless it’s these little little cou little things right here, um, I would just call them like. I don’t know that not like a cliff but, like I don’t know, they’re just they’re called serif. So that’s what they are honestly um. It’s just a really cool kind of like an accent to the more sort of bolded strokes that or not even bolded itself, but more like you know, linear chokes.
I have no little accent the end of them right so does the case you guys would know. That’s kind of like the whole deal about that um, so yeah. I wanted to show you guys that make logos like this, because recently I’ve been getting a couple clients with like some premium brands for clothing or premium brands for just really anything honestly. So I’ve been doing a lot of serif fonts lately um and they really do justice.
If I think you guys really truly need to know these kind of things. I know a lot of you guys in this blog here today or whatever you know when he’s describing what not a lot of you guys are a logo tutorial, like you know, people that come for my logo tutorials. I know like 30 percent of my views come from logos, so I want to give it guys a cool little inset, of how I kind of do something like this, where you either letter marks or full-on.
You know of course hand lettering, we’re not hand lettering, but you know typeface and you know lettering, but regardless, I think it’s it’s very important to show you guys least how to do it and how to execute it. I believe, and just give you guys little tips that I kind of do to make it even look even cooler than it could be right. So I yeah what that being said. This is a double a concept here.
I think if you look at this, it kind of looks you know it looks. I don’t know like it. Just looks like it’s sort of loyalty. You got ta, see trust. I have one word written down here. I put quality, I put quality, loyalty and Trust. So I feel like you look at when you see serif logos when it whether it’s like a like a brand of like I don’t know. If you look at this, you can personally say if this is like a lawyer bro right.
Yet the lawyer came up with you at this logo right here in front of your face. You’d be like all right, you know, but if they came up with that, you know this thing right here is like this is my a logo. This heaves your card with this you’d be a little bit. You know you know so anyway, that’s the whole deal about that. So I’m going to show you guys exactly how to do it right now and let’s go get this thing going all right.
I mean someone that gave you guys a nice little walkthrough, probably created in my personal little. I guess serif a that kind of made for this Baker today. So I’m going to go ahead and just show you guys the whole walkthrough. This whole thing I’m going to kind of keep this here for one second and one. Second, only just a cigarette off stick her out figure out how I’m going to kind of like lean and shear the the angle.
So I’m going to have a at least somewhat close to the same angle that I had before um. So, of course, I’m going to be using the rectangle tool here, I’m going to be on a new layer right here, right, single tool having your fill turned on, of course, because we’re going to, of course, have this rectangle be filled in and we’re just going to Simply make a nice size a good-sized rectangle for now, I’m going to kind of even it out with this one over here now.
What I would do here is, I would just select the actual rectangle itself now, if you once you can press a in or a keyboard or just click over here on the top left, direct selection tool and what you wan na do is you want to? Basically, click on just these first top two, so you’re just going to highlight the first top two shapes here: the the points here for the shape. If you just once you, if you guys, don’t know what the whole shearing is or if you has a no Photoshop or like skew or whatnot we’re just going to like tilting this on an angle of course, and then making a little more easier for us to Handle without, of course, like doing maybe like rotating like this and then make this flat, you want to kind of like guess that or you want to, like you, know, kind of even it out like that, there’s a way easier way.
I would just honestly just take the two points on the top hold shift move it over towards the left. The reason why you’re holding shift is because, while you’re holding shift, it keeps on the same exact line as long as long as you’re, not crazy. As you can see, I haven’t make really dramatic movements to change the actual line, so this is pretty good for me. Right here I believe, that’s a pretty even angle to this one over here, maybe a little less about right there.
Alright! So that’s pretty okay! So I’m going to hide this now so then I have this a here. I’m going to quickly just kind of like make a little more shorter, just like so and now cool. So I have my little right angle, shear. Now, what I’m going to do is I’m going to hold alt and shift if you hasn’t know what the reason why, of course, if you hold alt and you select on a shape itself and use when I click you just move it around just like so you Make duplicates just like that, if you guys want to, however, I’m going to be holding alt and moving over to the left, while also holding shift, because you guys know what keeps on that same exact line, and once I can let it go just like.
So I can make sure if I move it over again, it’ll be in the same exact line. That seems that position so that way, when I go ahead and right-click on this shape here, I can go to transform and then reflect and we’re going to just take this and just reflect on a vertical which will flip it. Nice symmetrical for us to make a name, so I’m now going to okay, I’m going to just go ahead and take this. This point right here, move it over towards the right kind of connected with this point over here.
So I’m going to say to myself right: there is pretty dang good now, if you didn’t, if you saw my mind kind of like snapped, if you guys don’t have like snap to point, I believe it’s in where is it like view snap to pixel endpoint? I personally have on. I don’t have to have pixel really. I can just have point itself um, but if yours isn’t snapping the way, I would definitely tell you guys say if your guys not used to kind of having it perfectly on a point put on snap to points very easy, as you guys saw up view snap To point just like so, and I’m going to do now, is I’m going to just click on both of these little shapes right here by holding shift right? If I just select one hold shift, I can select the other one.
Have any other ones still highlighted, I’m going to go ahead and use the shape builder tool? If you guys are new to illustrator, it’s basically a tool in which, if you press shift M your keyboard right. This is the shape builder tool this shape here. Basically, you can see these lines here, it’s kind of making almost like polygons or segments. You can say in these little paths here we have its own individual shapes, but if I go ahead and just unclick it, if I move it, I’m not moving individual shapes right now.
But if I were to just show you guys and see, if you hold alt, you can see my little. My little mouse has a little minus button now, next to if I hold alt, if I let go, it has just a plus button, but if you guys, of course, think about, if you just click on that shape with that plus button, if I just click off Again, really quickly and click now over here, it took that shape that I actually clicked with the shape builder tool and get into its own separate shapes.
So we’re going to be doing, though, is using the minus, which is of course negative kind of like you know, kind of getting rid of it subtracting it. So you know hold alt click over here and click over here, just like so to make ourself a nice little a here now. In my I guess you would say my example of my serif on here. Usually you kind of have different weights, meaning like thicknesses. You see here I kind of have like a different way here, so I have a very, very sort of thick stroke line here with an interruption with this little stroke line in the middle in the middle more towards leading to the right – and I also have a Different like a little kind of weight or thickness of stroke here for, like the inner side of the a so usually you’ll, find yourself, maybe focusing on that.
So if you guys wanted to, I would probably City you can probably move this and like this I’ll. Just do this right split it in almost half, so I use a shape a little tool again just like so you can do something like that right, so that right there and it’s kind of letting me about different kind of weights um. But for my example, I personally did not do that, because I kind of did this little example, which I’ll show you guys in a second kind of like focus on kind of making.
It look like almost like a negative space to kind of figure out that this is right here. There’s like an imaginary line coming down right, because we have this pointing up this right here pointed towards this little other point. Here we kind of cut it off. It’s not too difficult thing about it, but if you guys can hopefully kind of imagine in your head that this right here, it’s almost like a nice little secondary stem of the a coming down the left um.
But we didn’t have that. But if you guys want to keep this, I would definitely suggest the fact that you use different weights and different thicknesses. But for me, like I said for my example here, I’m going to leave it so that it is one nice you know uniform thickness is we’re getting rid of in a second anyway, okay! So now that I think this is okay, it’s a little bit on your thicker side than I would normally like, but it’s pretty okay, okay! So I’m going to take the rectangle tool once again right! So I’m going to go ahead and say myself right down here.
I’m just going to go ahead and make a nice little like make sure this is on that line. Let me get a little more to think of for now, because we can go ahead and subtract most of it if we just simply won’t sort of done with it will kind of like figure it out if it needs to be a little less or a little More when it comes to, like, though height is, I would say so right about there’s a pretty good little little thing right, then I’m going to take the same exact shape, hold alt and shift again, of course, holding alt make it do the kit holding shift to Keep it on that same line now, keep it right around there, and now we have ourselves a little bit of Sarah’s coming on right, so you can see that we’re getting that little look to it, which looks pretty good so far, but it’s it doesn’t have that Little sort of curve that most serif, fonts or Serafino logos have right here now, there’s one of two ways of doing this, I would believe the easiest way to do is the second method, I’m going to show you, but the first method, just in case you guys Really want to do it is you can just use a pen tool right, you can just use your pen tool and just on the line itself, take your pen tool, click on the line over here right and then just simply to make a nice little curve.
For yourself, oops, that’s disgusting. Take this little extended point anchor point here right, you can go around like so you can do it. Something like that right, that’s fairly simple! Honestly, it’s not too like difficult. It’s also kind of like you know it’s quick as well honestly, but what I would like to do is right. If you guys, you see this little Pathfinder table, I have up at all times, usually cuz I mean I usually use it all the time.
If you guys don’t have it it’s under windows Pathfinder, and what this is basically going to do, if I just simply like I’m going to do right now highlight all of these shapes here together, I’m just going to do one side for once right. So I’m going to just click on this shape here right this little right hand little stem here and this little bottom stone they’re just kind of made for the serif. Here I’m going to take these two shapes shift-click on them, which is going to basically select both of them and I’m going to just click right here in the Pathfinder unite right here you can see it makes it one nice little path.
Now, if you guys did it right, I’m pretty sure, there’s no way you can kind of mess this up really. But if you just click here, you can see these little. I believe I forgot when this came out for illustrator, but me about two years ago. I really don’t know honestly um. This is kind of like a little curve. I would I don’t know what the actual name for it is. I would just call it a point by point curve right, so what happens is mostly on every little curve? That has a very, very sharp edge it should even have on the inside.
Here. You can see that right there right little sharp edges always going to have an ability to curve them. So while you have these two actual shapes combined, you can just simply click on one of these points right here. It’ll have this little circle for you guys, you simply just take this circle and then just drag it right up now. I find this a lot more easier for more than one reason, because it can be perfect, you will make sure it will always be perfect right.
There is no sort of indication where it’s going to be slanted on the wrong angle in like that, because this is done in it’ll, show to program and the technology and illustrator itself. So you can damn well sure you know kind of like make sure the curve is on the right angles and stuff. So I’m going to do the same exact thing over here to this one. Now, just in case you guys not know if I just quickly go back for a second before I did the actual ones.
If I wanted to, I can click on both this angle here, and I believe I can click on this angle here and then move them. Both simultaneously to make sure I kind of get in on the even on each side, as you can see, it’s pretty much just like so and now it’s perfectly even on each side, and you have to worry about it. So if I just click here and click shift click over here as well, just like both of them, I’m going to smoke us on one and what’s going to happen, is the other one is going to be quite perfect.
Now I think that’s pretty good. I think this needs to be a little less. I may be wrong there and I think that’s pretty dang good. So now. Let me kind of like think about it. If I wanted to can just kind of give you guys, like a nice little different way in the middle here, so kind of have like a little serif looking a little a right there, I think it looks pretty cool right. So it looks pretty cool now, but for me I just thought there was something really cool to do and I kind of like figured out some different styles and that’s kind of doing this little sort of indication that it’s missing and there’s still like this little fill Area for this, whatever letter you’re actually doing right, so I’m going to do – is I’m going to go ahead? Get rid of that because I don’t want that here.
What we’re going to do here is I’m going to go ahead and kind of get rid of this. Like area right here for now right, so I’m going to just click, and I get very, very simple line with this. Might like my pen tool, I’m just going to highlight everything here: cuz, I’m going to make sure it’s going to split here and it’s got ta split. Scuse me split right here on this line that it is creating. So if I press shift M shape bill a tool just like so make sure I split it just like that, because we now we have this completely got rid enough right.
So you can do something like this as well. There’s different ways, of course, split your areas. There’s different ways to sort of uh indicate where you know there’s just like you know this like: how do you call it like an imaginary or or inferred? What’s the word I’m looking for, I think it’s like inferred closed inferred whatever, but there’s an inferred line. That’s right here right so for me, I found this little cool door trick that you can do to make it look something like this.
Now it’s a little tricky, I even don’t even know if I did it right the first time how ever what I actually did was. I said to myself going to make a nice little oval here now, if you guys know what later I’m I just clicked on. I press L on my keyboard, but you bring up the kind of like the rectangle tool, but it kind of like went down into the ellipse tool. You guys. I know that already, if pressed L on your keyboard, so I’m going to just simply make a nice little lips here now make it fairly big size just like so I’m going to put on a nice little angle here.
Now I’m going to go ahead and cut it as close to see right here like this little snap to point stuff, I might need to turn this off right now. So it’s not too pixel snap to point my turn, both of those off that way. I can freely move it just like. So now, I’m going to figure out if I believe, that’s pretty. Okay, let’s move this again like right about there. I would say now, if you have this little empty space here, that’s perfectly fine! That just means you have to fill that in with a shape builder tool.
Again, I think that’s pretty good, so I’m going to make a nice little what I kind of wanted to aim for our dude over here and explain it more in detail. If I just reflect this one over here, I think this is going to have to be a little smaller and also going to do. Is I’m going to change these to color, so I can actually see what they are. I actually see what’s going on here right. It’s changing to a different color, just like so now, I’m going to make sure.
I think this one should be more of a circular kind of thing here, so I can get a nice point in a direction because this is facing more to the left. If I make this one a perfect circle, this will actually go ahead and kind of like point in the direction sort of top right up kind of thing. So if I say to myself, if I put this right about here, this will just have to be a little bit bigger, I’m holding shift to make sure it keeps a perfect circle right about there.
So I’m going to do is I’m going to line up sort of like the bottom of this circle here to the point rate here right? So a point referring to is this point right here: drag this down and kind of make sure it’s perfectly rated there. Now I’m just going to go ahead and say: I’m going to make this a little bit bigger hit that right there, and this should still be on the point. It’s a little bit off there we go.
Does that work out? Okay, so I’m kind of like going in circles here, let’s just make this one bigger, okay, why are you going down and not up there? We go there. We go there, that’s okay! So if I need to, I can go ahead and just get rid of some things, but I think it’s okay. I just want to kind of make sure that I get. I want to definitely get it the way I had it previously, so try on a little process here, but what, if I just go ahead and just make this just a lot bigger than it needs to be that way, I can just automatically have it interfering with That over there, so when I make this on this point right here, that’ll work just like so so a little kind of like little thought process, but hopefully that’ll kind of help.
You guys that when you’re figuring out cuz, I personally, like I said I just my first time – sort of like doing this little little style point here but, as you can see, I kind of if I just even intersect these two circles here. It’s perfectly fine. No matter what, because I still get this nice little point at the end, no matter what because of course, two circles still going to combine it to a point just like so, but this whole area, like I was talking about right here – that’s missing! That’s perfectly fine! What I can do here, I can just do it right now is: I can shift click on both this shape here right this little a and this little reddish tone circle.
If you guy going on shift my keyboard – and we can fill this in by just simply – is clicking with the shape builder tool just like so if I move that it’ll be filled in for you guys just like so right, so once I do this just like That I can then hover over everything here, because I want to make sure I can see all of my interactions, so I can see all where I’m going to be cutting at if I just press shift them again.
I can get rid of this. Get rid of that get rid of this get rid of this get rid of this and get rid of that, and now we have our little inferred little sort of directional a thing here. So the cool thing about this is like I said before. If this was too high for you, this little area right here like this little – you know from this point to this point was: if it’s a little too high, you can just take a nice little rectangle, just cut it right through.
If you want to, let’s say I’ll, do a right about there cuz, I kind of like to hide it. It’s it right now, but if you guys don’t want to use the shape builder tool, I don’t know what that is, and then just you know, hold alt and get rid of it. So it can even be even more skinnier right. So I think that looks pretty. Damn sexy, if I’m honest with myself, I’m going to go ahead and just combine all these shapes that are in here just in case, there’s, there’s one little hidden shape right.
There I’ll combine it now together. That way, when I go ahead and just sort of move this as I want to, I want to move this down here, I’ll, give it a fair, spacing I’ll, say right about there now, if I don’t know if this is on the perfect angle here, what I Personal like to do to check it, which is probably the best idea, I’m pretty sure, going to hold shift and get it on the diagonal line as well.
But if you guys want to, if you I kind of follow I’m what I did was look up here as you can see, it’s not quite there. Yet this is definitely not ideal. However, it does work and I would just recommend, if you kind of want to just still do it right, I’m guessing right about here. If I zoom in again, that’s all good. So if I just click over here and shape builder tool, you get rid of that. Get rid of that now.
We can definitely make sure this is all on the same exact line and now for d’like them. Last but not least, here make ourself a nice little of different weight press M on our keyboard. For that rectangle. It’s a little different size thickness. Oh, I would kind of also make sure it can make it a little more uniform. So what I would do is I would kind of copy the the height of this right here right.
So it’s not quite there yet just make it a little bit more just like so there we go, I’m going to take that shape now and throw it right in here for that little sort of inferred line. If there’s like a little crossbar for the a – and I would say that is a pretty damn good-looking representative of two little aids going on um, it’s a little bit too skinny. But you know what I mean like I find. I would honestly make it a little more thicker just like so, which means the kind of the bottom part of the serif maybe needs to be a little thicker as well, but for the save the tour, I think that’s pretty dang it good, and there is our Really cool custom eh so honestly guys it’s a very, very fun sort of like almost like a coat like a collage project.
If you think about it, not for me, I didn’t you know you can even say this is one a itself right, no matter what there’s an a right here, there’s an a right here, so you can call it double a. But for me this is going to be just a letter, a mark itself in its own territory. I guess you can say, but hopefully you guys understood the whole tutorial and really understood that this is a very, very cool sort of like.
I would really embrace the fact that you know I at least understand how to do this, because you’re definitely find clients along the way, we’re looking for a premium brand and they don’t know the words how to describe what they want, but most likely they’d really be. Looking for a serif typeface or you’re, going to serif letter concept or something like lettering itself right so hope you guys enjoyed the tour here today.
Hopefully I talked to you guys something. Hopefully I open you and some inspiration to something with you know: serif fonts and whatnot or serif lettering, um, I’m just going to go in as quickly saving a so very much. We hit 78 KO for the week, and I just appreciate that very very much. We’re very very close to 80 K, so uh just for the sake of the twirl it just hit, like you know, 250 likes and 24 hours.
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So recently, if I take an interest to sort of like figuring out a different technique on how to create mask a logo designs, as there is millions and millions out there, I’m sure, and if your mascot designer that I’m sure you go, you also have your own Current style to it, so I usually always, I think, the past two articles on how we’re like Symetra designs – and you know pretty much how to sketch and stuff like that.
So, of course, today’s article cheat, I’m just you – have a sketch and pretty much illustrate your mascot designs in like three simple, easy shapes, and I believe this way of processing it or like understanding your like sort of introducing you to mask a design mask out low Designs, if you choose to you, know kind of forward yourself into that, you know kind of category of design. It’s really really crucial for you to really figure out all these different techniques, because it’ll really help you like settle with your spouse.
So i’ma teach you guys that today so of course have a song with a sketch and I’ll throw the sketch into illustrator and it’ll. Really quickly illustrate it and I have to be really fun very simple, so hope you guys enjoy and let’s get this frickin thing going so, of course, to like on the article because a secret down below which I’m not sure some be yet. But maybe a know me I’ll figure it out when it’s time so whole thing is, do enjoy and, of course, if you guys want more tutorials, please just let me know leave a like on the article and all that cool stuff and yeah.
Let’s just get it just just get this thing done, alright, guys so pretty much myself with this sketch right. So I have a lion like roaring on my screen right now. I do also have this pre sketched out. So yes can just like sort of relax and understand where the I guess the direction is going, but I really want to show you guys really quickly what I’m looking for when I actually sketch out my mascot design.
So if we were to look at this, let’s say this: one entire shape right here was like number one, and then the next shape would be number two and then our next shape on the outside actually be number three. When it comes to how many shapes are there to kind of create your base to like creating an actual mascot design so right here, I’m looking at a picture and I’m just going to basically make sure I believe the most crucial thing about this.
If you trying to use a sort of technique, or even like like trying to figure out how to do a mascot, a logo design, try to make your, I guess you’re number three or Susan you’re number one shape is like, is, I guess, direct as possible to Make sure that it’s the animal that you choose so for me, I think starting off with the actual hair and the outside sort of like the easiest way for me to actually say that or to do that for, like the whole lion thing now, if I won, I probably had like went a little further out or whatever I put them more so kind of like a little stroke, pins or wherever you want to call them um just going to go ahead and just like so sketch this out now.
I already know, like I said I already have it planned out sketched already, but pretty much. I want to show you guys what I mean by sketching out a shape that kind of like make sure wars or make sure that you kind of have this like. How do you say this animal shaped out the way that you believe that animal looks on the outside, like if you were just thinking of a shadow for a shape for an animal? That’s pretty much! What you’re doing here and we’re just going to go ahead and move that up like this, we’ll move this like so, let’s just make that go all the way that way for now and then I’m using I’m moving my favor a lot.
I know, but I just won’t show you guys so this like black outline, is stroke. This will be one entire thing. That’s filled in so this just imagine this as if it was filled in all the way. So if you can imagine that you just know that this is going to be that black part, that’s on the outside number. Two right here will be whatever for that primary call that you choose to use, so this her to be the primary color.
But for me I just want to pretty much make sure make sure guys also use negative space in my pre sketch. You can see this little triangle here and if you see my picture that I have above or ever I have it in, like the article y’all. Probably you’ll see it somewhere arm. You see little triangle here, I’m going to use it as like a negative space sort of. So in my example, I can probably have right – or this is me in my sketch I’ll – have this like something like this like over here.
Then going up this way, I’m going to pretty much trace this. What I have over here again, so I’m making sure I keep this little like these little spiky things going on here, because that’s kind of illustrate – or I guess I would say – you’re you’re, pretty much matching that it’s pretty much hair right. So this is what I want to make sure I do. This little part will be his little ear. It’s pretty smaller.
It can be mess around with just we’re going to keep on going with. It, though, go ahead, and do something like this. Something like that and let’s just say we do something like this this time I don’t know we’ll figure that out when the time comes, but there we go right. So I basically did my little site, like my little sketch on the inside so, like I said guys, make sure you guys understand that the like the best and most like focus shape you should be focused on, would be number number one right.
The one that’s on the back and then pretty much it’s going to completely either make or break what you want to have so for me. I also usually do basket designs when I sketch them out. I was just like symmetrical thing where I have like that. The I go in the hair going or whatever and then like the nose or whatever it’s going on. I usually have that symmetrical, but symmetrical logos are not like. I want to stop doing those.
I want to sort of branch myself out or like learn more and like I said I found this like really cool little technique. I’ve seen people do it, I’m, like you know what like, why not give it a try, so pretty much what you do on the inside for that one like number two shape here. You just want to figure out like negative space like this right here is going to be his mouth areas, or your teeth will be and stuff like that on.
This is where his nose can be, if you even want to, would you put like a little triangle here as well, see like that’s where the nose is going to go, but this little negative space here is the nose is so space here, so the mouth and Teeth and so you just want to make sure you have that back shape and it really like generalizes, the actual animal that you choose right and then that’s for the eye. I’m going to go ahead and just say the generic sort of like circle shape whoa.
I’m sure you have this in Illustrator as well, but go some like this. Just something like that for now I’ll just say: that’s the eye. You can work with it for now. Let’s just let it go. Oh that’s the eye for now, but basically I want to let you guys know that is. It is almost. Is this easy right here to set yourself? Will you had a pre sketch like what did you do before that? I looked at the picture and I pretty much said exactly.
I pretty much is exactly the same thing. I didn’t take much time on the pre sketch at all. I started to make sure that I have a certain direction and also that you can see what I was talking about before. I even finished it so that right here this so just really really quickly like review it. This number one will be that one back shade. That’s going to be solid color, and it’s going to that. Your one base color shape that’s going to be on the outside right, and the number three like I said by the way, is basically that stroke is going to be on the outside.
Like so there’s going to be a stroke on the outside, it looks something like this right, something like that all right. Let’s just say this is the stroke and this stroke is that number that number three shapes or this stroke all the way around that number three shades that’ll, be that nice little gradient color, whatever the color you choose to be on the outside, and the number of Two here is that one shape, like I said I kind of defined like define.
Scuse me, the animal is well on the inside, so he was going to you. Don’t want have to fill the entire thing like, usually I would say to myself all right. I have to make sure I got to go outside here over here like trace all the way around, but if you just kind of focus on just the main parts, I guess to the actual mascot design itself, then you’re pretty much in there. So hopefully that makes you like it helps you understand just as much like I’m looking at the picture.
Right now is well. I probably like make this go out like this way more, but it’s all it’s all just like the sketch is not always going to be. What your outcomes going to be, obviously, like I myself, I’m a prime example of that, so this sketch it’s we’re going to change out. I’m probably going to make this like I’m going to actually put these in here, make those arrows come out more this way. I want this to come out more that way.
I want to actually, of course, fix this, of course fix my eye. We’re going to get smaller as well, probably small and push it up so use arrows. Use your sketch, however, just know that your sketch is not going to illustrate what your product is probably going to be. It can give you a generalized idea, because once you put everything in Illustrator and start going to smooth lines and sort of like what you’re looking for this will be totally easy.
And if I find this method, just really really cool. And this way of thinking about it just a lot easier. So hopefully I helped you guys out and like I guess, starting out you’re your mascot, because you might be like I feel like I can do this by. I just don’t know where to start. Hopefully, this will help you guys out, so I’m going to go ahead and take a picture of this, I’m going to email to myself and I’m going to throw it into illustrator and then we’re going to go from there.
So hope you guys enjoyed that and yeah see you in a second alright guys. So I went ahead and I threw in the sketch into illustrator. We are in illustrator CC 2017 and so pretty much I’m just going to go ahead and start this thing off. So, of course, we’re going to start off with a new layer and the first shape that we’re going to be focusing on is number one, the one that has little stripes through it, and I told you guys that was the back plate.
That was like the bones of the actual mascot, the bones. Really, I couldn’t think of any of the word. Okay, so just a quick little rundown, of course, I’m using the pen tool in order to create our nice paths. Now, if you guys don’t know, there’s a fill tap right and there is a stroke crown which is located right here. I have it turned off at the moment. Turn your stroke pack off. You only have to do.
Is choke pack stroke path off? Maybe just click on this little red line going through where it says, none that will turn it off and I’m going to also turn off my fill as well just for now, because I don’t need to see what’s in the inside eye thing like that, I see Well, I see which is just the stroke line right here right, so I’m going to go ahead like I said I focus on this number three or see me number one down here up here, no over here in this location, so I’m going to go ahead and Start pissing off right over here and we’re going to go ahead and is go for it.
So if you guys don’t know if click and drag will just give you guys neck so arch. So if I click once right, if I just click once it’s not going to give me any sort of twists or turns or shape like you know, I can’t actually turn the shape or curve the shape. So what I want to do is I want to click and I’m going to drag my mouse toward, like. I guess the bottle up to my mouse pad to give myself a nice curve that will curve me more to left hand side but also giving that nice sort of, like, I guess moon shapes kind of curve going on right.
So if you guys don’t know already, if you were to simply click on the anchor on your pen tool just like so it will create a new kind of anchor, which is basically, if I just want show you guys like wiggle. If I click over here, I’m trying to move this over here, this would have on a curb on this side, because this extended curve, this little anchor point here – is still a secondary sort of, I guess anchor, where it’s kind of showing you guys.
If I were to click over here, it would curve pretty much halfway through here as well right. So, as you can see, so I just click on the anchor. This will reset that, and I just click and drag again without the unnecessary curve on the outside or following these extended flights here. So I’m going to continue now going on and it’s going to continue doing the same exact thing. You know I have this there just like I’m sort of following my uh, my sketch a little bit, but I’m also following what I want to do as well.
Some like this, and I’m just going to make this one go in more because why not and I’ll make this come like that, and then I could do so break here and I believe this house is going to go like that. Yeah, okay and then we’ll do this one like this yep, okay and then this here, I’m going to bring it in like so, and also this curve right here is almost like a little S curve, so the others never s curves.
I was talking about that when I do like curves for like color correction stuff, like that so nigga s curve, i’ma click drag correct and if I just click right up here, this will give me a very, very simple S curve. That’s exactly what I want. So if you guys do not know already, if you extend this more over here, you would get more of a curve. So let’s say if my curve is like, oh like how like how you see it with a green line right now, I can extend that as well.
So if I click again right where I want to have that, I can even just hold alt ctrl click on this handle. Here I call the extended point: what it’s called handle shirt and I’m a click and just drag this back in toward the actual center path. Here or ZZ set our anchor here and I’ll. Give me my curve that I want back as well, so it’s very easy to make curves like that as well, so this curve right here, I’m going to simply actually I’ll do that what multiple just like! So I move this curve like that there we go and I give myself those nice little teeth now, I’m probably not going to be doing all the whole teeth thing anything like that, but I want to make sure you guys get the base.
I guess I guess the the basic of the thing shirt we’re going to go with that um we’re going to go ahead and just do something like this and then we’re going to go ahead and just come up here and I might actually start putting in some. Some little curves in because I don’t want to just have it very just bland like that on the top, so I’m going to go ahead, just add in my own little stuff. So I already told you guys the sketch is probably not going to be exactly how I want it to be, but this right here I’m going to go and just turn on my fill down and put this on a nice colored Levi how to color before right.
Here this nice little black here so I want to go in just add myself lay of nice little. You know two little spikes on top as well. Simplify you say imply hair there we go so right now at this very moment. The whole point of what I was saying before is number one, which is this first shape that we’re doing is to make sure you make this shape as memorable or Susie as memorable or as or as what is the word, I’m looking for as uh as accurate.
We’re just going to go accurate as the Amba you choose like me, like you, can see a line in here a little bit right. It’s not like a bunny, it isn’t like a bear. It kinda looks like a dragon’s the moment, but you add you get the the bare bones of what the shape course is with the animal you have with the shape so make sure this right here. The sketched out number one spot in the Sketchup. Excuse me number one shape.
This is the shape. This is the path that you want to make sure is perfect and great and good, because the inside can always be messed around with the outside. You want to make sure you have that sort of bear bone like base shape, so that’s that first part of the sketch. So if you want to down and put my sketch above this black path here sees me this black shape and there’s a low, my pasady on the sketch and there we go I’ll lock this back up just right again: okay, so now above my layer, three, which I’m going to call this number one.
This is the first shape line. It’s called a shape. Number one right, I’m going to make a new layer is going to be shape. Number two shape number two: that’s a dollar sign go boom, all right shape, number two. So the shape number two, like I said, is right here right. So this all this right here is shape number two. So I’m going to go ahead and start off rate here. I guess now we’re going to go for it so, like I said this is like a little ear now we can always go back and sort of mess around this and sort of fix things like I said this is just the sketch.
This is just your first attempt. You’ll have so many variations, and I got myself on my logo designs. I usually take maybe like three days on them – maybe a couple hours here, they’re on each day, just because I want to do it for like premium stuff like that. So I know it takes a long time to get that file perfect sort of like look that I’m looking for. Let’s see other one here and truthfully, it’s not like something that you can probably do in like one second, so understand that there is going to be a like a learning curve.
Scuse me, but it’s I swear to you. It’s not it’s not as hard as it might look and even like I’m saying this and I’m not the best myself. But I know in my heart that I’m going to get good as long as I keep trying right. So I’m going to go ahead and just I’m going to add another curve in there. Why the hell not something like that, or even oh, how about this after this curve? There is something like this and then almost straighten this thing out now we can just go straight into there.
I don’t know we’ll see. I can always measure out this more I’ll move that around for now, if you guys not know like, I just always hold control. We want to move a point. I think I want to move, you can click on by holding ctrl just so you guys know, and I’m going to do something like this, and this is the little nose part that I was talking about. Let’s just do that and then we’ll come in here, just like so all right and then we’ll do this last two little or Sunni, three, a little little spike to the top, which is indicates his hair right and do some like so and then connect it after This one right here, all right so very simple right this is the shape number two I’m going to just connect it now right so for shape.
Number two I’m going to have this color here, I’m going to turn off this as well, so now shape number two has something like this. So, as I said before, this cheat number two is pretty much the part where you want to get the onliest the essentials. Basically, inside of his his head, basically right, I’m also going to measure off this a little bit. I want to move this little further down. This way, try to feel some more space, um that’ll.
Do my something like that right. I think it looks a little bit better and I can mess around with that as much as I want, but I want to move this as well right. I already got some things coming in my mind that I want to do. I want to also move this little further back. It’s too close to that nice, not with the curve a little bit. I think it looks pretty good so right now else is I got talking about the negative spaces area so right here where this nose is supposed to be right.
I want to make sure I have that space looking very, very accurate to what you would suggest that there’s a nose also in here right. So if you zoom in backwards to me, if I zoom out you’ll, see it zoom in backwards. Hello, if I zoom out you’ll, see there’s like a nose shape there and there’s also empty space for the mouth here, um, which I might not be doing, because I have a lot of trouble with mouths, but I can get you some.
I like some. I like design something like that right, so let’s go ahead and just focus on the eye really quick. So actually this is number four places the first shape right. This is the second shape. Let me just do the third shape for now right, so the third shape is actually go on the bottom. However, so this is shape number three and shape number three after the number three I’m going to quickly do.
Is I’m going to go to shade number one again, I’m going to click on the actual shape with my actual directional tool right, I’m going to turn on a stroke for a second I’m going to put a gradient on, because I can, let’s just put on a Green, let’s just choose any colors for now. We just want to see what the colors are and I’m going to stroke here right here, let’s table and just put on my width up my height scuse me and we’re just going to go ahead and make sure we’re sensor on the outside correct and, I would Say to myself I think this size stroke is pretty good, so I’m going to take that into account I’ll hide everything else or lock everything else and go to shape.
Number three click and I’m going to go ahead and now to start off from here and I’m pretty much going to make sure I follow these basic love. It excuse me, let’s turn this off, make sure you follow this stroke on the outside. Just to make sure I have the same width but just understand it, you can do whatever the heck. You guys why I like realistically, should be here if you want to keep it completely like symmetrical to what’s going on the inside.
However, I want to put it there because I feel like it. What I always get the width and make sure I have like them with maintained around the entire actual logo, doesn’t look really weird, that the wicks are different with the strokes. But if you want to put different stroke widths in different areas, go for it like it does not matter. It’s your design right. So I’m going to go ahead and just quickly go on the route outside of this and make sure we got that.
Looking pretty okay, there we go so now when I just really quickly click on the stroke again and I’m going to head to put in that code that I want right here. This is a nice little gradient, I’m going to go to back to shape number one and then turn off the stroke here, because I have the stroke now in the back and there we go right. So this whole tutorial is all about making the mask out in three shapes.
Really this right here is the bear boat. It’s literally, you can see the line. You can see the Stroh’s you can see the inside of the actual. You know the different features that is going to have so realistic. I can stop here, but I wan na quickly show you guys what whole like the whole eye situation there, but just know that these three shapes is what’s going to really make the actual mascot correct.
So, of course, there’s eyes there’s different like I can do something like on the inside here. If I wanted to, let’s just do something right now. I want follow this angle here, make a nice little curve there right. If I want to have some more color on the inside, if I choose so do something like this and then just connect it like, so I can’t swim like that and then just use the stroke. This blue here come like that.
Going on to indicate you yet again, more hair going that way. So that’s just one of the little little thing I can do as well as like. Maybe like this. I don’t know, let’s just uh, my mouse is tripping. Oh God, there we go. I think I caught it. I think. Oh okay, we’re good! Alright, do something like that and then so. I’m like this right and that’ll indicate like a little nose right there right, okay, looking good so far, so really quickly! I’m not sure you guys this whole eye situation, um, not my best eye, but I’m going to go for it.
We’re going to call this with this. What is just add on right, I’ll, lock that really quickly now we’re going to make the eye so the way I usually make my eye was just basically like a honeycomb like a half circle right, I’m going to turn this off for a second, so nice little Half circles: just you know, click drag make a nice little simple, like little smiley face going on there and then just click and then drag towards.
So I want to have like a more fatter area towards the face right here. I guess the right size of face and pretty much that’s that I’m going to fill this in with a black right expose. It was black now what I’m going to do now is I’m going to go ahead and okay, we’ll go with it for analysis. It’s just the whole tour purposes thing, so I’m Prince Li keyboard. It gives me the ellipse tool right. That’s what I want the ellipse tool I’m going to make.
It basically make a perfect circle by holding alt and shift clicking images dragon right. So with this perfect circle, I’m going to take this perfect circle and just bring this like right around here where the eye is, I’m a should click on both of these actual shapes. Now I can basically I’m clicked on both of them. If I press shift M, which is the shortcut for the shape builder tool, I’m going to go ahead and click on the inside, where this little plus button is it’s going to be a plus button? If you held alt, this will actually get rid of different shapes, but what I want to do is I wan na make sure this is a shape.
That’s cut out of the two shapes that is made, which was the circle and now that’s a shapes. I’m a click just like so now that I basically have two different parts: I’m going to have this little like it’s going to be your eyelid or our Susan II, our iris, and this part right here, is going to be like that filled like white spot. What is that called oval or biology? Okay? So I’m going to go ahead and fill this.
Excuse me make this white I’m going to go ahead and make sure I put this white O shape below my black eye shape and I’m just going to go ahead and move this just like. So we can mess around this as much as we want, but I want to make sure you guys get the point uh something like round, there’s pretty good for now. So that’s that right there right – oh god, okay, let’s just uh, put on that angle and then we’ll do that for now.
Okay! So now for this part here, this looks I’m going to put this on the bottom. I make a new layer on the bottom of the pass here and I’ll. Take my pen tool, I’m going to go ahead and just like click drag click. I’m not going to follow this exactly like that, and this is going to be like another like piece around. His eye that just makes it look cool, ah like some like this, like that and then I’ll get rid of that and fix this like that, um, okay, that looks okay, I’m going to give her this little sketch thing now and I’m going to make this outside.
Actually going to make this outside black and this blue, there we go okay, so I’m going to shrink this down a bit first, this right and we’ll mess about this and shrink this all together. That way, it’s not ginormous and put it somewhere around there. I think that’s pretty good, so really I can go a lot further than this. I might even mess around since or like the whole final image thing, or sees me like to begin the article like what you’re going to be learning today in today’s tutorial, whatever what I want to at least show you guys and like really like, illustrate how easy It is to sort of start your mascot design, I’m not saying that kind of as it easy I’m not saying that I’m great at them or good at that, or anything like that.
I’m just saying I’m learning and I want to teach you guys everything that I learn, because I know you guys are going to teach me a lot of things as well. I go so look what I did. I’m like okay how’d, you do that and we become friends. So it’s one of those things. So hopefully you guys you did enjoy today’s tutorial. Hopefully it helps you guys out and starting your mascot designs and maybe even I guess, brightening your.
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