Deciding my Logo

When making a logo it is important to consider how you want it to be portrayed, how you want the public to look at this branding you have created to express yourself or your company.  This becomes even more important when you are trying to create a logo that represents you and what it is that you do.  It's one thing to create a branding logo for a company, more often than not the name of the company is usually what the logo is going to be based around, from companies like Lions Gate or Bad Robot, this situations make it easier because they give you a basic idea of where to start for the logo.  When creating a logo for yourself it becomes a little more complicated, in some professions yourself can be your logo, in other cases such as the entertainment industry, if you are an artist your logo usually needs to be a little more creative.  In most cases people will take the first letters of their first and last name, sometimes even their middle name and combine those letters to make a symbol to represent themselves.  Another way they use their initials is by taking them and setting them in a specific legible font that suits them best and center it in a symbol with colors that best represent themselves.  Another way one can do this is to make a symbol figure that they can use to represent them, either of an object or even a character, the character can even be yourself, as long as you create the image based on your own artistic style.  In my case I plan on using an object that represents me and the different activities that I do within my industry.