Here are the final designs I created for the salamander for my amazing animals project. These designs ended up being my final since I felt each of these sketches are the best of the designs that I drew. The realistic drawing was made to be an encyclopedic drawing you would see when researching a salamander. The black white spotted salamander was made to be a clean cooperate logo. The salamander with the leaves coming out  is meant to be a transformation of the salamander changing. The final sketch is a paint brush gesture of the salamander and was meant to be more artistic.
This image is the inspiration and source for all my drawing this project.
Tittle: salamander-amphibian-animal
Creator: Harold Martin
URL: https://www.behance.net/portfolio/editor?project_id=158183569
License: Free to use under the Pixabay license
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These  18 drawings are the concepts for the cooperate  salamander logo. For each logo I tried to differentiate them from another while using the different principles of design. The main principle of design I used was negative shape since I wanted the logo to be a black or a dark gray to make it stand out from the other sketches. I think since I stuck to that principle of negative shape  I  created a theme lf darkness  and the sketches side by side makes that more apparent.
These are the designs I created for the transformation of my salamander  and meach one I have a soft spot for. The design that ended up being my final was design 5 with the leaves since I felt the leaves and branches helped create a unique design which just spoke to me. The other designs are made from different objects from a salamander's environment. I played around with water, bark ,grass ,mud,  tree branches, vines, leaves, and logs. The main idea for each sketch was to show the salamander fading/turning into the object assigned to each. For example sketch 9 has the salamander skin is turning into mud while  sketch 4 is a salamander who fully transformed into water. But in the end I just wanted something that stood out but still subtlety recognizable as a salamander.
These last sketches are the 20 gestures I created by using brushes, pens, micro pen, and a alcohol marker. These drawings were the most difficult of all the m in this project. to create the gestures I had to fully relax and let my hand and draw each salamander in about 2 minutes. I couldn't overthink or used my traditional design methods I had to freestyle my designs in a way. Once I put my mind and ease and ran through 5 pieces of paper I got the paint brush and made each logo in without thinking. the design I felt was the most successful is design #15  and I can't fully articulate how i got to this design I just did without thinking and it just looks the most appealing to me. Design #20 was a paint accident I made the best of and transformed so that's why it's larger than the other sketches.
Amazing Animals
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