The more thorough you are, the smoother your logo will look. Select the Ellipse tool and draw circles wherever there are curves in the logo. Make the fill color transparent and the stroke color a bright red. Lock the layer with the sketch on and open up a new layer. Then drag down rulers wherever things need to be on the same level and wherever you want straight lines.
Open up a new Illustrator document at any size/mode. Once you have some sketches you are happy with, scan it in, get the band to pick their favorite. Once you have drawn around that it should then be erased. The green area’s are where the template was drawn from the other letter. Here are some examples of sketches where I have had to make 2 letters symmetrical with each other.
Sometimes the first letter will still need to modified to get a balance between the 2. You can then try to fit the other letter inside the template as best as possible. It is sometimes a good idea to start with the most complex letter, then draw a flipped version of the to use as a template. Some letters a more tricky than others to make symmetrical. It helps to understand the basics of typography. Try to keep the widths of the letters as consistent as possible. You might want to just keep the first and last letter symmetrical if you want it very legible. Some letters are more difficult to make symmetrical than others, use backwards letters if necessary or make 2 thin letters symmetrical to one wider letter. Spend a lot of time on the sketches, creating at least 3 or 4 that you are happy with as these sketches will determine how good the logo is. They dont need to be perfectly drawn or measured, we will use Illustrator to do all of that. Start drawing the letters from your influences, if you lack experience in working with typography pay careful attention to the fonts. You should now start drawing the logo straight onto paper. I took inspiration from death metal logos, punk logos, gothic architecture, the Book of Kells, Blackletter fonts and ambigrams. They had influences from hardcore punk and the lyrics were about politics and society. The logo I am using for this tutorial was for an old school death metal band. To make the logo more unique its a good idea to find inspiration elsewhere including religious/medieval/occult symbols, typography, non-metal logos etc. If you are not so familiar to death metal then its a good idea to find as many logos you can to use for inspiration. Once you have collected enough information about the band, you can then start researching the relevant visuals. What sub genre do they fit in? (technical death metal/progressive death metal/old school death metal) What are the lyrics about? (politics/urban life/religion) What type of audience are they trying to attract? (mainstream/underground). This will be a symmetrical, hand rendered, vector logo.įirst of all, it is important to know a lot about the band the logo is for. Now that I am focusing on different area’s of work I have decided to write a tutorial to explain in detail how I went about creating the most popular of all my logos the death metal logo. The demand for these logos were more popular than I expected and I managed to get quite a lot of work from it alongside my studies. Being an extreme metal fan and a logo designer, it was only natural for me to start creating logos for the metal scene. I have been creating extreme metal logos for over 4 years now for many bands all over the world.
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