Lately I've been putting quite a bit of effort into creating a new logo using Photopea. I went through a lot of variations to get to this one and even then I feel like a logo is something that needs to be organic and be altered every so often.

I wasn't truly happy with my first rendition that I used for the 'Dystopia' release, but I did like some things about it. I kept the white brush stroke in the back, but did a lot of smudging and then heavy blurring to give the name a contrasting backdrop. I really wanted to add a small backdrop circle to the name since it looked kind of bland with just the words. I liked the parenthesis look since it reminds me of a planet outline. The last thing I needed to do was to make sure it the other two words fit which resulted in the offset look. In a way this is supposed to mimic a backwords and forwards letter D with the I being the middle line, or at least that was the original thought.

I started looking at eclipse tutorials and didn't quite want it to be as simple as 'followed tutorial, here's what I did!' So as usual I improvised on top of it and duplicated some layers to move up and down and finally came to this eye shape. Some of the grainy dissolved noise that I added to the center circle started to look like eyelids to me. The last thing I decided to do was to pull it off an all black background to a darker grey asphalt looking color. This let's the entire image pop a bit more, especially the inner logo design.

Taking on some of these challenges as a solo artist makes me feel like I have a lot to do all the time. In reality there is zero rush to any of this and all of it is another opportunity to grow and stretch my own artistic boundaries. We don't need to make something that we have to sell to another. These works can simply be about personal growth that you want to share with others. I encourage everyone to mess around and just create to express, and maybe one day it will resonate with someone.

So, what are you doing to stretch your artistic boundaries?