I like the idea of the blog as testing ground. It lets me put out ideas without confusing the harmony of my portfolio site, such that it is. All ideas are worth exploring. Even getting bad ideas out will clear the way for the good ones. When Craig Frazier was explaining his sketch process, he talked about putting everything down, no matter what or how bad the idea might seem. Here, these stray ideas could flow into something cohesive. If I don’t put them out there, how will I ever know?

Here are the 5 turtle illustrations that I will be working with. The 5th is actually the only concept that is much more fully developed, although it still needs some refining. Each turtle will have several variations but one from each core concept will be chosen. Basically they’ll end up with 5 choices from the plethora of ideas my head has spit out.

Once I have the 5 fleshed out logo concepts, I’ll post them and of course I will post the final logo as well.

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Update: I won’t be working on 5 concepts. They’ve already chosen to go with concept 5.  It’s the only logo where I’ve applied the theme, which will be disclosed later on. As for the other 4 drawings, I’m going to turn them into paintings.