We need to go over sketching monograms a little bit more. So monograms again are
just a logo that consists of the initials of the company or client
that you're designing for. Now you don't have to use thumbnails when you go and do a little
bit more detail with monograms. You can, but basically the thumbnail purpose
is to just organize. So it's for organization, many different ideas. It doesn't mean
you're going to have your final logo enclosed in a square or rectangle.
Now when you're drawing with initials like I am with Fuson Enterprises, I'm going to
try different looks and dimensions. Instead of just 2D, I'm going to try 3D as
well without overdoing it. I'm going to try different types of typefaces, especially
once we get into Illustrator. We're going to experiment with different type
and then customizing that type we'll' get into later in the course. But when you're
creating a monogram, again you don't have to only create this unless a client
just said, they just specifically want a monogram style logo. You can include it as
part of your services but when you're doing that,
think about are you going to have it enclosed in some kind of symbol or just a
basic shape like a diamond or circle or some other kind of decoration on the
edge? Are you also going to maybe try drawing a shape first? Maybe a 3D box?
For this one it's kind of a shipping context or maybe creating a box and then
putting the F and the E on either side so it's just another brainstorming technique.
When you're creating monograms, just try different ideas, and what I
like to do is to put a little check mark next to ones I want to explore further.
Now later in this course, of course, we are going to be going over Illustrator
quite a bit and so I've just brainstormed, these are not specs or anything close.
This is just playing around in Illustrator and brainstorming as well.
So we're going to go through that process in this course so don't worry, and these are
not scale or size or anything like that. I do not use any kind of tools to make
it perfectly symmetrical or anything like that.
I'm just drawing with different shape tools in the pen tool and just customizing type
Alright. Thanks.