Logo Designs

Welcome to the gallery of my logo designs, where creativity converges with identity. As you'll notice as you browse this page, I've had the privilege of collaborating with a number of small businesses, particularly those within the handmade Dungeons and Dragons dice community on Instagram. My logos are not just graphics; they're visual stories that encapsulate the essence of unique, handcrafted goods, as well as the even more special creators behind them. From digital artistry to hand-painted intricacies, each logo carries the mark of individuality and the personality of the entity it represents.

Tiny Dragon Dice

This is the logo of the small business called Tiny Dragon Dice. The business makes handmade Dungeons and Dragons Dice. The request was for a very cute, charming baby dragon that was playing with a D20 (20-sided die) in a way that resembles a kitten. The colours, shading style, and other details were all discussed as well.

It is popular for dice makers to put a special symbol/image on the '20' face of a D20, rather than the number. Typically, the symbol is a simplified version of their logo. Many of my logo commissions for die makers include a simplified version of the logo accordingly. With this commissioner, we considered a few options to simplify the logo: a silhouette of the whole thing with the die as negative space, a silhouette of the head, and a very simple line drawing of the head. The final choice was the last one - a simplified line drawing of the head - since the commissioner found it adorable and found that it printed nicely on dice through testing.

Straolyn

Straolyn is a small business that sells handmade crafts, such as Dungeons and Dragons dice, keychains, and stickers. This commissioner requested a handpainted watercolour painting of the straif symbol, but composed of the branches, fruits, and flowers of the blackthorn tree.

For this commission, I scanned the painting I did by hand so that my commissioner could use it digitally.

Chaotic Click Clacks

Chaotic Click Clacks is a small business that sells handmade Dungeons and Dragons dice. The commissioner asked me to create a fierce-looking Medusa, whose snakes have D20s for heads. They wanted the logo to be a line drawing but coloured to look like shimmering gold on a black background. I played around with colours and textures to create the illusion of shine and sparkle for this piece.

Larkspur Dice

Larkspur Dice is another Dungeons and Dragons dice creator and seller. For this piece, I was asked to create a composition with a D20, some larkspur, and a bird. The commissioner wasn't sure which type of bird, but though through discussion, it was decided that it would be a magpie. They wanted a softer, pretty sort of look to the final piece, so I suggested a handpainted watercolour piece, as I knew that the medium would be the best choice to achieve their aesthetic goals.

The final painting was scanned so that I could digitally add text in a font they could use in other media they produce, for the sake of consistency. As with most of my handpainted works, this painting was mailed to my commissioner and now has a place in their home.

Rogue Raven Dice

This piece for diemaker Rogue Raven Dice was requested to be something monochromatic and tattoo-like, incorporating a dagger, a raven skull, and a given list of poisonous flowers. I suggested incorporating the letters "RR" for "Rogue Raven" in the logo, and the commissioner loved this idea, so I came up with two ways of doing so that made their way into the final piece: very obviously across the front of the skull and more secretly in the design of the dagger's handle.

Gloom Jester's Dice

Gloom Jester's Dice, another die business, needed a logo along with designs for stickers, a business card, and a die-face symbol featuring that logo. The commissioner requested a stylized image of their cat, Fish, sporting a jester's hat with a green, black, and white colour palette. The easily-identifiable hat shape has become the recognizable image of the business, along with the iconic mascot, Fish, as these designs are always found on the dice and throughout the company's digital and physical media (i.e. their social media, packaging, and goods).

Keeping the face and overall design simple and charming is what made this piece so effective. Further, people's love of cute cats has caught the eyes and hearts of customers: they've expressed that Fish's presence added to their fondness of the brand and specifically this design as well.

Pie Slice Dice

For the handmande Dungeons and Dragons dice company Pie Slice Dice, I was asked to create a watercolour painting of a slice of cherry pie, topped with ice cream and a cherry-red D20. The goal was to create a piece that had a rustic charm and looked good enough to eat. Its warm colour scheme, rounded shapes, and being handpainted all lend to its overall cozy, inviting, comforting 'vibe'.

I knew this painting would be used on both smaller and larger scales, as the commissioner mentioned wanting to print it on a banner to display when they have a vendors' table at events. That being the case, I painted it on a larger scale and ensured that the scan was the highest resolution/quality possible, so that it would look clean and not pixellated when englarged.

The Yellow Yuanti

For the Yellow Yuanti (now Golden Gorgon Dice), another handmade Dungeons and Dragons dice business, I was commissioned to design a logo incorporating the owner's snake and a dagger, in a bold-lined, full-colour digital drawing. To create a cohesive look, I suggested keeping the number of colours minimal and having the snake coiled around a symmetrical image of a dagger. I used the same gold colour in both the snake and the dagger, and tried to make the snake's shading greyish to match the dagger as well. The ruby stones stand out, but this is intentional; they encourage the desired effect of having the viewer's eye be drawn to the centre of the image. Further, the linear shaping of the whole design is visually appealing, as the eye naturally flows down it when taking in the whole thing.