cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/24199894

Context: a logo for a substack about biographies, more in a literature than historical sense It will also feature the logotype, which isn’t showed here

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/26738714

I made this logo to calm myself down after worrying about the future job market. Felicità means Happiness in Italian (At least according to the Cambridge Dictionary lol)

Sometimes we're biased when picking a color for a new brand or whatever, so I made this random color picker

Speech bubbles and other text can transform an image wildly, even just captioning existing images then sharing them is common practice.

Unfortunately, some artists just aren't skilled at it. I've even seen highly skilled, emotive drawings with an MS Word plain-white speech bubble and Times New Roman text hacked over it by the creator, crushing the work's atmosphere. Matching the work's style is important.

I would like a tool or workflow that lets me quickly add and adjust a stylized speech bubble to an artwork. I haven't really explored any templating/prefab/preset options in, say, Krita or GIMP or Inkscape, or any comic-making tool, so if there's a dynamic way to do this rather than me poorly copy-pasting-stretching a raster or manually drawing every time, I'd love to know. I really just want to avoid it taking more than a couple of minutes to add a nice-looking dialogue. Ideally: select a style, type in the text, and place it on the image.

Some random examples of different forms

I suppose, it's not too complex and the headline of The New Oil website is delivered through this vector image in a good capacity. I really like Inkscape for all my minimalistic artwork. To understand the context, refer to issue and Penpot prototype.

Making

Start

The headline is "The Beginner's Guide to Data Privacy & Cybersecurity". At first, I just tried a bare oil drop representing the logo of TNO. This drop can be easily done with Path tool and mirrored through Path Effects or manually. I placed duotone gradients on both fill and stroke in such a fashion that gradients don't mix together (almost perpendicular directions).