Logo

This image is a logo I created to put on my work and this blog. At first, I had a difficult time with this logo. The butterfly took about 2-3 hours to create while the swirl and text took maybe 10 minutes. What I first did to make the butterfly was put a series of arc lines and line segments together in Illustrator. The curved lines of the butterfly are all different arc lines while the middle (body) of the butterfly are 4 line segments. In the beginning I had 2 line segments stretching down the whole body of the butterfly, but I had to cut them up into 4 because I was not able to fill color into the butterflies wings. I figured this problem out because the lines were not "joined" together and did not create shapes that were allowed to be filled. This was my only dilemma, so after cutting and joining the arc and line segments together into the 4 different wings, I was able to fill the wings with the purple-pink color. For the swirl I used the pen tool. The first swirl I drew was meant to just play around and test out the tool, but I ended up liking the first swirl I made and kept it as the final one. The default text on Illustrator I liked, so I played around with the positioning of the title and ended up with what it is now. This Logo definitely gave me a better sense of the Illustrator tools and helped me learn how to use them correctly. I am very happy with the final product of my logo, I feel that it represents me very well. To me, a butterfly is spontaneous, free, elegant, and sophisticated. I really like butterflies as it is, but I also feel those words describe who I am too.