Design Tutorial 3 – Green Plant Logo

Posted by ScotSpellman on Nov 30, 2010 in Diving Into Design | 0 comments

For my third tutorial, I wanted to do a logo in illustrator. My friend and I are starting up a grow journal site called Plantilicious, so I figured it was the perfect candidate to start exploring logo designs. Given the nature of the site, I wanted our logo to be a plant growing out of the ground. I know, pretty ambitious for myself and I honestly didn’t know if I’d even be able to do it. Then while googling cool logo designs, I stumbled across this tutorial and shrieked in excitement. It is exactly what I was picturing in my head. Man I love Google.

The hardest part of this tut for me was the Pen tool. Talk about one weird, interesting and extremely powerful tool. I spent a good 2 hours on Pen tool tutorials before I could make the leaf shape look good. I definitely recommend learning how to use the pen tool to anyone interested in design.

One of my favorite parts of this tutorial was making the lady bug. It came out really good IMO. I had some initial trouble getting the intersect tool to do what I want, but I eventually figured out that you can only intersect 2 items at a time (I was trying to intersect 5 of them at one time, oops).

Overall, this is the most fun I’ve had doing design tutorials to date. The tutorial touched on a bunch of tools which is helping me learn illustrator and the finished product is something that I find very visually appealing and professional. We’re even planning on using it in a production when we launch Plantilicious.com .

Here is the finished product:

Download Scot’s AI source file: PlantiliciousLogo.ai

View the tutorial here: http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/text-effects/creating-an-environmentally-friendly-green-type-treatment/