How To Draw Sports Logos: The Gorillas

A quick screen capture video showing you how to draw a very simple sports logo using a few simple techniques. This particular style of logo is a near symmetrical illustration of a gorilla face in an oval bed. The team are 'The Gorillas'.

Fraser Davidson is a professional designer and animator. For more examples of his work, please visit www.cargocollective.com/davidson and www.fraserdavidson.co.uk

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[DirtybBytes]

You Rasterise the Type to Bend it? Seems very un-Vector to do that? I wish AI allowed you to do it to the vector type like the ole KPT power tools allowed you to do.

Just watching you do the process, redrawing it over and over helps. I never do that, but I will now!

Great stuff! Thanks for posting.

[fraserdldavidson]

No type is rasterised. You outline the font first although even this isnt necessary.

[jarmelo2006]

Great video, great art work and wonderful music and editing. but no communication and no teaching. The Key points as to why any one would want to see this video and learn from its extremely talented Creator are missing. I ask that you teach this wonderful form you use sir. it would be of an amazing benefit to those who want to learn this craft

[fraserdldavidson]

Its impossible to teach the editorial process involved in what marks to make, where to highlight, where to shadow. It differs for each logo. I realise this makes the title of the video a little disingenuous, but it sounded better than 'watch me make sports logos'. I was asked to show people my process and the types of broad techniques I use.

[mattlange26]

Which program do you use for screen capturing?

[fraserdldavidson]

IShowU i think its called.

[Bobby Bernethy]

Just listened to you on the Adventures in Design Podcast. As a designer and sports fan, your work is really inspiring.

Just curious, why did you draw the initial outline of the facial features, turn them red, then draw over them with the white? Were you just not happy with the first version and it was faster to redraw it rather than edit it with the anchor points that were already drawn?

Still cannot wrap my brain around you doing 340 logos in 3 weeks man.

[Gian De Guzman]

even the music choice on this is cool!

[alexis boyer]

Vous utiliser quoi comme programme ?? merci de me répondre

[mikefresh75]

Would love to see a tutorial on how to create the little extras in After Effects, the background textures etc.. really makes the logo presentation look great.

[LibraryOfTheFuture]

do you work with mouse or pen?

[Samer Majeed]

What program are you using?

[sakitperut123]

What's the name of the font used for Gorilla?

[demikede1]

If there was a NFL expansion going on, you're hired to do the work of the L.A. Gorillas. LOL! Great work on designing the logos. +

[Carlos Prada]

this is not a tutorial..it´s just show off lol