GIMP ART - Logo design

josephbupe · **Posted:** Wed Apr 08, 2015 3:27 am **(#1)**

Hi,

If you are interested, I would like to know how you will design this logo and what challenges, if any, you will have encountered. My challenge was mainly due to lack of diagonal guides and figuring out how to make the final rap/over-lay with a shadow.

Good luck.

Joseph

GnuTux · **Posted:** Wed Apr 08, 2015 6:07 am **(#2)**

Looks like a interesting challenge. Kinda reminds me of the Celtic Knot Challenge

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16173

josephbupe wrote:

Hi,

If you are interested, I would like to know how you will design this logo and what challenges, if any, you will have encountered. My challenge was mainly due to lack of diagonal guides and figuring out how to make the final rap/over-lay with a shadow.

Good luck.

Joseph

Yours seems to be a little off center at the top? Or is that the way it is supposed to look?
Pretty nice looking though.I like that you colored the shadow a bit.

josephbupe · **Posted:** Wed Apr 08, 2015 6:33 am **(#4)**

Rod wrote:

Yours seems to be a little off center at the top? Or is that the way it is supposed to look?

Not the way it's supposed to look. You probably can see also that even the shape itself is out of proportion. And the shadows spill out in some places.

Thanx Rod.

Joseph

Wallace · **Posted:** Wed Apr 08, 2015 8:31 am **(#5)**

Here's my go at it.
I did have issues with moving the paths I used into the proper position to create the three shapes needed.
I also had issues with the settings for the 3 drop-shadows.

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josephbupe · **Posted:** Wed Apr 08, 2015 8:51 am **(#6)**

Hi,

You're right on it Wallace! Those two are the exact issues I had in my workflow.

Great work and thanx for giving it a try.

Cheers. :gimp

Joseph

Wallace · **Posted:** Wed Apr 08, 2015 8:57 am **(#7)**

josephbupe wrote:

Hi,

You're right on it Wallace! Those two are the exact issues I had in my workflow.

Great work and thanx for giving it a try.

Cheers. :gimp

Joseph

Sure no problem.
There is a script that can create a diagonal grid, but I haven't use it. So I can't be sure how well it might work to help create such a shape.
Here is the link, if you would like to have a look.
http://registry.gimp.org/node/25244

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

Wallace wrote:

Here's my go at it.
I did have issues with moving the paths I used into the proper position to create the three shapes needed.
I also had issues with the settings for the 3 drop-shadows.
[ Image ]

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logo-design Wallace.xcf

With shadows going in opposite directions???

josephbupe · **Posted:** Wed Apr 08, 2015 9:19 am **(#9)**

Thanx Wallace. I will give it a go.

Joseph

Wallace · **Posted:** Wed Apr 08, 2015 9:28 am **(#10)**

josephbupe wrote:

Thanx Wallace. I will give it a go.

Joseph

Good luck. :bigthup

ofnuts wrote:

With shadows going in opposite directions???

Yes and why not?
When I made the shadows going all in the same direction, some were darker and other were lighter. I wanted the shadows in the folds to be more pronounced.
I understand that if the light source is form above and to the left. All the shadows should follow, but I was only trying to reproduce what the original image looked like and not worry about where the light sources is coming form.

Odinbc · **Posted:** Wed Apr 08, 2015 10:49 am **(#11)**

Were you guys using combinations of Selection masks composed out of channels for the shadows?

Wallace · **Posted:** Wed Apr 08, 2015 2:50 pm **(#12)**

Odinbc wrote:

Were you guys using combinations of Selection masks composed out of channels for the shadows?

That is another way the shadows could have been done, but I didn't do it that way. I just removed parts of the shadows by making selections and erasing what wasn't wanted.