11-09-2020, 07:45 AM
You've been busy :D great to go back over all the fundamentals, I bet you're getting a lot of benefit from it all!
I never looked too closely at mobile game logos, but from memory they do seem to be really 'clean' looking, kind of slick and precise (but maybe that comes from downscaling to a small size?). So yea, I can see where your friend is coming from maybe. Could try using illustrator to recreate what you've already done, but starting from a font so you can get that clean look. I like your one too, but the two T's, two E's in the first line and the two L's in the second line don't have that pixel perfect matching you get from a font, which may be noticeable to someone who's used to seeing perfectly matching letters and might dissuade them from clicking it.
Another little thing could be the light and shadow shapes on the leaves and vines, some of them could benefit from more purposeful shape. Like instead of little stripes of light and shadow, something more interesting could be constructed (I know they're minor elements, and I skimp on those things all the time but it could all help). Could also try just running a posterization filter on it which would create some interesting shadow shapes you might not think of on your own.
Great stuff tho! I know it's a struggle for you right now, but you have this great treasure of a lot of free time to study and fill in gaps ^_^
I never looked too closely at mobile game logos, but from memory they do seem to be really 'clean' looking, kind of slick and precise (but maybe that comes from downscaling to a small size?). So yea, I can see where your friend is coming from maybe. Could try using illustrator to recreate what you've already done, but starting from a font so you can get that clean look. I like your one too, but the two T's, two E's in the first line and the two L's in the second line don't have that pixel perfect matching you get from a font, which may be noticeable to someone who's used to seeing perfectly matching letters and might dissuade them from clicking it.
Another little thing could be the light and shadow shapes on the leaves and vines, some of them could benefit from more purposeful shape. Like instead of little stripes of light and shadow, something more interesting could be constructed (I know they're minor elements, and I skimp on those things all the time but it could all help). Could also try just running a posterization filter on it which would create some interesting shadow shapes you might not think of on your own.
Great stuff tho! I know it's a struggle for you right now, but you have this great treasure of a lot of free time to study and fill in gaps ^_^