This logo design represents two very important things in my own life, so it represents my website perfectly. A handstand is the most basic skill in gymnastics, so I felt it would be a good design to choose as part of my logo. When I looked at different pictures of handstands for my logo, I saw a drawing of a handstand with one leg bent. This reminded me of the shape of a hanger, which is a huge symbol of fashion. I wanted to find a way to combine the two, so I figured out how to manipulate the two symbols to become one. To me, this logo is a symbol of gymnastics and fashion overlapping so easily. The two are not something you would think would be one in the same, but to me they are.
I first copied a photo of a hanger into Illustrator, locked that layer, and then added a new layer. On the new layer, I traced the hanger using the pen tool. I then copied the photo of the gymnast in the same way. After doing that with both photos I lined the outlines that I drew up, and saw how they fit together. I used the Scale tool to make the two outlines sizes line up. Then I used the Direct Selection tool to line the handstand drawing up with the hanger. The legs needed to line up more equally, so I manipulated those point specifically. Once they were lines up, I used the Eraser tool to erase the hanger in those spots, as the legs would take their place. I then made the hanger’s stroke grey, and turned off the fill. I made the gymnast a blush color, as that is my favorite color, using the fill and turned off the stroke. I feel this logo perfectly represents how seamlessly the two worlds collide in my life, sports and fashion.
This is the photo of the gymnast that first inspired my drawing
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