Fightin' Trout

[andrewharrington]

I had some free time, and thought I would try a fish to hone some skills, but I ask you guys to give me some feedback on it before I create a wordmark for it and drop it in the portfolio, effectively "finishing" it for all intents and purposes.

[IronChefShark]

sweet. Coincidentally, trout are my favorite fish to cook and eat

[andrewharrington]

And I hear the rainbow trout, as depicted here, are particularly delectable.

[Anemic_Royaltea]

holy moly.

that is one badass trout. And the colors are really nice, would make an interesting wordmark to slide around that...

[Steve-O]

Easily your best work yet bud. This entire logo looks so complete, so clean and the colors are sex on my retinas.

[Brian in Boston]

Awesome job, man! Great color palette!

[udonkey]

Looks great...I notice somewhat of a Nitro influence (which certainly is a compliment).

Good job!

[Cashcleaner]

Looks nice. Not really all that ferocious looking, but definitely a fish with some attitude. Very nice colours and the overall design is solid. When are we getting a wordmark? The colours would look awesome in text, I think.

[AAO]

that's an awesome trout. awesome job dude, and i love the color scheme. can't wait to see the wordmark.

[AAO]

wait...one thing, the logo itself looks perfect, but one thing maybe IMO would be to add a thin outline around it, maybe a silver or even a lighter shade of the light blue you used. and id try a darker green than 561C along with that outline just to see how it would look, but still amazing nonetheless. just some ideas to play with.

[Mac the Knife]

Impressive and original in terms of color use. Outstanding!

[TruColor]

I love it.

...and...I'm now reminded that I never finished something that I promised you...

Rats.

[Mings]

i wish i could render animals like that. when i try it they look stoned.

[pollux]

Really good job there tempest. It ain't aggressive, but you can see it has power. The colors are really unique.

[the_cynic]

That's a great looking fish!

[rynoz10]

great work tempest. Good looking fish

[Sec19Row53]

Sweet fish.

One comment - the dorsal fin (top fin?) is correctly set back far on the body for a trout. However, since it "lines up" with the lower rear fin (anal fin?), there seems to be a size mis-match (to me, since those two fins appear at the same point in the drawing, my mind wants them to be symmetrical, even though I KNOW they aren't). How would it look if you slid the dorsal fin forward just a half of a fins length or so?

[slapshot]

Something about the tail looks off...is it the angle? For some reason I imagine the tail to be lower visually, maybe almost being slighty obscured but the rest of the body of the fish.

Awesome work otherwise

[andrewharrington]

...and...I'm now reminded that I never finished something that I promised you...

Actually, you dont really have to worry about that if you do not want to PANTONE, because that particular high school would rather have a clipart/web image CELTICS logo designed by a class president than a decent one designed by an art student who has alumni connections wth the city. Until I canprove the claims and find this . . .

on the web somewhere, the administration will not do anything to change it.

[andrewharrington]

And to elaborate on the birth of this idea, because this is a good story.

I was walking to the post office from class yesterday, and I spotted this girl's shoes, and they were chartreuse, dark blue-green, and sky blue, and that is one of the many unique and unnatural color combinations living in my head. So I was thinking, "Man, I have to use that for something." I wanted to do something I had not previously done and something that appropriately fit that scheme, so I thought of freshwater fish.

Upon returning from the post office, I racked my brain coming up with a good fish to draw; one with a unique yet recognizable name. That led me to trout, but i wanted to spice it up a bit, so I found a photo of a rainbow trout and adjusted my colors to taste and judgment many times over, and I added the salmon color later to give it that rainbow character. It was tough, actually it ended up being impossible to find an orange-pink that didn't vibrate against the green and didn't bleed with the sky blue, which is why I had to add the dark green lines the separate the salmon and the blue.

Basically, 'This whole concept grew from a color scheme' is the moral of the story. It was a really great exercise in working backwards, because I ususally have a set color scheme, but when I do come up with new ideas, I usually do the forms, then assign colors. I feel like I am learning a lot and improving with my approach and my execution.

I want to make this guy more aggressive by the time I am done, and I want to fix the pectoral and anal fins, because there are issues there; they dont really fit the style of the other fins. I planned on using an outline AAO, so that will come when I do the wordmark, probably today. By the way AAO, is there any chance you will be going into the Ohio University graphic design program. I only ask because I know you're heading off to college this fall and I am transferring up there because they have a good program.