site logo with new japanese title of it

[Andy Tran]

 Just a new logo I just made with a new japanese title of it. I've used Matriax's guide on making spheres.


 

[ndchristie]

one problem with it is that, as im sure you can see, it doesnt read at all on a neutral background.  im not sure what these are intended for, but regardless you may want to fix that.  besidse that they look fine, though it would be nice if the shading on the metal was a bit more realistic (instead of being a simple set of bars stretched across)

[Dhaos]

White this is pretty cool the last ball (on the right side) is cut off by 1px, accidental cropping perhaps. It's also lower than the other spheres by 1px.

[Andy Tran]

 Thanks for the C+C. How do I make the metal more realistic?

[Panda]

Also, you would like to put ディ (small ィ, not a big one)  instead of just デ if you want it to sound as Andy.

As mentioned, it doesnt really work against light BGs and against dark ones the outline looks jagged. Anyway, ideally you should make sure that it works on different BGs (unless you use a fixed one), so you dont have to make the logo loads of times as you change your site.

For making metal more realistic I wouldnt use tones that are that close together, maybe change the brown to something darker, and maybe some flesh-ish tone as an additional reflexion. Either way you could google for metal pipe or flat gold (or something like that) images and use those as references. (You could just find a ref, and squint your eyes to simplify the shadows, and base it on what you see)

Good luck with further edits

[Andy Tran]

 Hmm..how do I make the fleshish tone?