2. A logo is very important for every business. It symbolize the
personality or the brand of a logo. Even if you have a small
business you also need to have a logo for the future. There are
lots of business or companies nowadays that are famous
wherein people can tell their brand name by just looking at
their logo. Having a well designed logo can also attract people
or customers. If you dont have enough budget to hire a logo
designer, you can make your own logo for you business.
4. Sketch
The first thing you need to do on making a logo is to sketch or
draw your logo. Get a notebook or a clean paper and draw
your desired logo. You can also do sketching in the computer.
You need to draw a logo that is related in your products or
services. In that way, customers or people can easily tell what
type of product you sell or what kind of service you provide.
Don’t make your sketch too big, you can be able to adjust it in
the computer. Dont also make a logo that is too small, it will
not look good if you resize it in the computer.
5. Use a marker
After you sketch your logo, you need to use a black permanent
marker and re-draw your logo. In that way you can see clearly
the logo that you made. Make sure that you already finished
sketching before you use a permanent marker to avoid redoing your logo. You need to re-draw your sketch carefully
with the black marker. After you re-draw, you can use a pencil
eraser to erase your sketch and to make your logo clean.
6. Color pencils
You also need to use colored pencils if you need to color a
certain area on your logo. Erasable color pencils are advisable.
What if you accidentally use the wrong color on a certain area?
And your colored pencils are not erasable. What you need to
do is redraw your logo and start on coloring again. Dont push
the colored pencil too hard when you are coloring, the tip
might get broken and you will have problem on coloring.
7. Scan your logo
When you are finished coloring your logo and everything is
done, all you need to do is scan your logo. Put the logo in the
scanner, you need to face it down if you have a flatbed. When
you scan your logo, you can produce lots of copies and you can
definitely make your logo look more attractive. It is not a good
idea to produce a logo that are made out of marker and
colored pencil. You need to send your logo in the computer to
complete it.
8. Image editor
After you scan your logo, you need to crop it and use and
image editor. With the image editor, you can improve the
appearance of your logo. You need to remove all the excess ink
in your drawing. You can also adjust the color and size in the
image editor. You can also make your logo look clean by using
an image editor. There are lots of application in the computer
that you can use in order to edit your logo.
9. If you dont have enough idea on how to make a good logo, you
can ask a profesional graphic designer some tips. In that
way, you can make your logo without thinking too much on
what to do. It is not also a good idea to copy others logo, you
need to make a unique logo. Make it original, if you copy the
style of other company logo, people will easily tell it. Creating
a well design logo is not easy, so you need to choose the right
color, size and drawing for your logo.