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Ravynlee · ~ ModMother / The Cougar ~ 290

Site Logo / Quills Symbolised

Jon2 · Dreamer of Art 270

Hmm. I know that I got a ton of ideas as soon as I start concentrating on the whole thing for real, but I prefer talking on AIM or MSN about stuff like this, gives more freedom in my opinion. And let's not forget that I can't draw at all. XD But yeah, I already got ideas... Just not willing to post them here, at least not yet. Hit me up on AIM, Rav, so we can start throwing ideas around.

Jess · V.I.P 260

Since it's called 'Quills', I had thought that a quill would be appropriate ... but I didn't get much further than that. Random idea - three quills with their tips together, and in each section a scroll\book, a musical note\instrument, and a paintbrush\canvas? My digital graphics skills are very rudimentary, but I'll try to throw something together today

Ravynlee · ~ ModMother / The Cougar ~ 290

Sounds awesome guys. Loving that triplicity there Jess.

As for jumping on AIM, I'll do my best, but given time zone differences might make things difficult, at least at the moment, my work roster's a bit all-over-the-place at the moment but will see what I can manage so we can get this thing started. I'll keep you posted ^^

Jess · V.I.P 260

Me + ten minutes in MSPaint =

I may title the book (Quills, by Sarah

) and I'm not pleased with the brush, but here's a rough one.

UPDATE:

Now with title. Trust me, it looks a lot better on my screen - tinypic, my imagehoster, converts it to .jpg or something and that f*cks with the colors. Sorry about that. But as conceptual art goes, it works; you get the idea. Ideally the bottom quills would be diagonal, so that the three sections are equal.

-- Edited by Jess on Saturday 30th of May 2009 12:47:16 PM

Jess · V.I.P 260

Apologies for the double post, but I had another idea. I used to collect feathers, and I still have some of them. Over the week, I'll play around with some photgraphy, and post up the results if the concept pleases ya's.

Ravynlee · ~ ModMother / The Cougar ~ 290

Sounds good Jess, all ideas are very much appreciated. I've got a few myself. See if I can pull myself away from The Park long enough to draft something... will see. Looking forward to see what you come up with. The more ideas we can throw around the better. I'm HOPING if we get enough that we can put it to a member vote and see what the site wants. See what we come up woth in the mean time ^^

EDIT:

Okay none of these were what I really had in mind but after a few hours of playing around they're the best at what I came up with (most of the ideas that looked 'good' in my head didnt look that good in reality, as is usually the case ;)) - so I was using this theme of creativity and came up with individual symbols for each.

^ 'Main' banner I guess you'd call it *shrugs*

^ Third Eye Chakra Symbol as Jon2 suggested is the 'birthplace' of creativity.

^ The Treble Clef (I think?) it is is the music symbol.

^ The Hand (Escher, from his 'Love hate relationship') symbolises art.

^ The Quill - quite simply, writing.

So these are similar just to show you how I broke it down. Ideally if we had the power I'd like to see logos or the like associated with each category on the home page (Art for art, writing for writing etc) but that's probably not possible. I was playing with the idea anyway...

^ I also did this one which was just for the hell of it. Not really over the moon about any of them but I promised I'd give something a shot so here it is for now. My original idea was also inspired somewhat by Jess' triplicity there. The Q as the base disected by three quills and each pie section showed art, writing and music to make up the whole circle but be damned it I could pull it off, looked like a watermill wheel *lol*

-- Edited by Ravynlee on Sunday 31st of May 2009 07:07:35 PM

Jon2 · Dreamer of Art 270

Awesome ideas. Funny enough, Jess, your idea actually gave me an idea. I got a few photos which might just fit as a logo, have to go through them first though...

Jess · V.I.P 260

Your main banner seems a little too busy, imo, Ravyn. I really like the individual parts, though, especially the treble clef and the red quill. Trying to put it all together into one compact, eye-pleasing symbol isn't going to be easy.

Ravynlee · ~ ModMother / The Cougar ~ 290

True that. I originally had the Third eye symbol out of the main banner but decided with an individual it needed to go back in so I slapped it on the Treble Clef. Meh, to be brutally honest I don't really like any of them for this purpose. Was a literal time-killer, but showed I was doing something rather than just talking bout it ;)

Thanks for the feedback Jess =)

Jon2 · Dreamer of Art 270

I really like some of the elements you have there Rav, like the ॐ symbol and the hand, but I think there's a thing or two to still work on. I like the first one the most, but I'm hoping you would use more colors and alternate with the "Q" in all of the pics like in the first and the third pic. I like your way of designing though. Hopefully people who know more about art are willing to give their deeper opinions and analyze what to change.

Jess · V.I.P 260

You know, Jack mentioned in another thread that she could change the name of the site. Maybe we shouldn't restrict ourselves to quill-ish art. Just a thought.

Another thought - a horizontal quill with ink spilling from it vertically. Some image in the spilled ink. My initial mental image had a tree, but it could be anything.

Ravynlee · ~ ModMother / The Cougar ~ 290

That's true. But she doesn't really want to change it now we're somewhat established and she has all these promotional tools at her disposal (like the blog, the yahoo thing, etc) - I guess I can see where she's coming from. And you're right, it doesn't have to be Quill-ish art, it was a literal representation because I couldn't think of anything else to be honest *lol* When it comes to creativity I write and I draw, period, they're what I do (or did).

Spilled ink is good. Tree represents growth/life. Could work. Have a visual in mind?

Jess · V.I.P 260

Good point. If we're going to change the name, it should be for something more than a pretty logo.

In mind, yes, but nothing looks half as good once it gets out. Somewhere in the arm and hand, quality goes down by %97 hmm

I'll leave to you arsty types.

Ravynlee · ~ ModMother / The Cougar ~ 290

^ I'm hearing you. My 'awesome' idea about the disected Q went out the window the minute my brain let go and my hand took over. End result not worth posting - but no matter...

Well we can't have individual banners anyway on the mainpage, but individual banners may be good for things like 'Member of the Month' or 'Music/Writing/Artistic competition winner' etc which are currently being proposed. A small issue is finding an image we can all agree on and THEN finding a style and background to match it to bring this site up to scratch.

I'm not sure why Quills was chosen as a name (I liked the movie of the same name btw, different) but as at least that can be linked to this creativity suggestion at least we have something to work with.

Sarah Sensei · Linkin Park ♥ 130

Okay since we're throwing some ideas around I made this:

It's not much, but it's a contribution...

Ravynlee · ~ ModMother / The Cougar ~ 290

Not sure - kind of a header idea - but has a very 'trippy' vibe to it. Ordinarily I shy away from bright colours, but for this instance I thought we needed something that grabbed the attention - and besides, could make creating separate banners from it easier if it were colour-associated

Sarah Sensei · Linkin Park ♥ 130

That is so retro Rav. XD

Ravynlee · ~ ModMother / The Cougar ~ 290

I know! Haha. So colourful for me. BUT I thought seeing as how people liked the red before and the yellow um... place where we write - and we were trying to veer away from the stereotypical 'quills' representation, I thought it was worth a shot.

That's me getting out of my comfort zone for ya.

I think the general public wants some colour *gasp* I have to admit after 4 odd years of black backgrounds/white text, as cool as it looks, it strains the eye too much. I love the Nouveau style at present but really I hate to say it... we need a change from dark and brooding. It's not conducive (or representative) of 'creativity' is it? Just a thought.

Sarah Sensei · Linkin Park ♥ 130

I love the Noveau style that I've only discovered the other day. How's that for a theme?