My dream-bike-in-progress, the Jackalope, will have a logo etched (“bead blasted”) into the titanium, on each side of the frame. I have been working on said logo for over a week. Here’s the latest iteration:
Jackalope facing Left
That is iteration #19. Here’s how it started:
First draft
And here are some iterations between 1 and 19:
Second draftMade the antlers look like bike handlebars!Text inside the animalIntegrating inside text with animal curvesMore text/curve integration. Now it looks kinda like a digestive tract. Bug or feature??Warped the text to follow the body curve of the JackalopeMade a left-facing version because logo needs both right- and left-facingSome preferred the text below, so I pivoted to simplifying the animal.Simplified animal outline with text insideShould the Jackalope have pointy feet?…This one has a pointy front foot and more rounded back footStylized rounded front foot on this one. Dead end.I decided I preferred the pre-simplified outline, but thought the cursive text might be insufficiently legible, so tried it with a more legible font.Subtle adjustment on back legs, so the “e” doesn’t touch the leg gapNope, I preferred the cursive.Here’s #19 again. I rounded the letters a bit, and connected them like real cursive. I separated the ears and adjusted the handlebars/antlers. I made a few subtle curve adjustments to integrate the letters.Latest Jackalope logo facing Right. Some people don’t like the “J” going out its butt, but you can’t please everyone!
