Makers mark help needed?

[georann]

Hats off to Dave on those drawings, I'm a photoshopper (and do artistic stuff like my signature) not a drawer so new ideas and creations like that are beyond me!
None the less I did these 2 yesterday evening after you said about the campfire idea. Not really happy with either though!

 

[Gill]

Just some quick sketches, they'd need a lot of tidying up but you get the idea anyway. I think the fish one has potential, especially given your name...

Now i,m liking these much especially the bottom two the fish is good too but no a fish fan,be good to see then tidy,ed up buddy.

 

[daveO]

No probs, I can do tidier versions fairly easily. It would be helpful to know what size it will be reduced to though so I know what level of detail to go into and also if you have a prefered shape for the logo. The acorn one can vary a lot, one leaf, two leaves, rotated around, whatever you wanted.

 

[mountainm]

how about someone choking down on a nice bearded axe.

 

[daveO]

Trying to make it look more like a stamp or woodcut. Still needs work but I don't want to do too much until we're getting near what you're after if that's ok.

 

[Stew]

Trying to make it look more like a stamp or woodcut. Still needs work but I don't want to do too much until we're getting near what you're after if that's ok.

Really smart mate.

Maybe a bit too stylised on the G though - if I didn't know, I wouldn't see it.

 

[mountainm]

Really smart mate.

Maybe a bit too stylised on the G though - if I didn't know, I wouldn't see it.

Yeah looks great! - But for leather and knife work I guess it needs to work when Small too?

 

[Stew]

Yeah looks great! - But for leather and knife work I guess it needs to work when Small too?

Oh yes, definitely.

It's nice having a big fancy one too but then a simple version for marking as well.

 

[daveO]

Yeah this is why I need to know how small it will need to be. I'll try a simplified version anyway to see if it works when tiny. The inverted image gives good impact too. I'm not happy with the lettering at the moment though.

 

[daveO]

A bit more simple but I think the name will still end up a bit small maybe.

 

[mountainm]

Make the leaf area smaller then it will shrink better.

 

[daveO]

Like this?

 

[Stew]

You need to go further. The name needs to be centre stage and the leaf just there for some decoration.

 

[mountainm]

You need to go further. The name needs to be centre stage and the leaf just there for some decoration.

If the leaf was curled and further behind the acorn it would not distract so much.

of course design by committee for someone else's logo is never a good idea.

 

[daveO]

It's all helpful as I don't really know how stamps and stuff work. There's no point in me relying on a dark colour for emphasis if it won't be printed as a dark colour or whatever. I'm designing a bit blind at the moment. I can wrap the leaf around the back a bit more and go back to the leaf being mostly darker to lift the white in the acorn then thicken up the letters a touch?