Below are some of the logos that have previously appeared on my home page from most recent to the distant past.
Still playing around with the undersea theme and while this one is kinda fun, I brought it to a busier level with the current pic (mostly because I wanted to add a deep sea diver.) And, or course, I've opened up the size of the pic/logo.
Squid are just so much fun to draw, I like working with the undersea theme. (See above). Getting the tentacles wrapped around the lettering took some planning and pencil and eraser work.
This vacuum cleaner doodle with logo was squeezed a bit to not be so tall. I call it "woodge dot com sucks."
A simple logo aided by graph paper. I call it "squarish."
This is the result of messing around with graph paper and overlaying text on text and then coloring it just so via Photoshop.
Got lazy and made this dragon logo. I was just bored with the other ones. But I like the current one.
I was revisiting the toothpaste logo idea and then found a ripple distortion filter in PhotoShop and used that on it.
Messed around with all sorts of figures until I hit upon the pose depicted here.
I saw a drawing of a squid at the library one day and thought, hey, I could draw that.
One of my recent bedtime stories featured a town called Nethervine that was completely overgrown with vines...
Many times my aimless doodling often turns to alligators, and this logo is the (un)natural result of such.
I was looking at a childrens' book by Satochi Kitamura that had a small picture of a toothpaste tube in one of the pictures and I thought, Hey, I could do that. So I drew one, added stripes and colored it in. This one's one of my favorites.
This logo, developed on a "sick day", was never used but rejected from the get-go.
This logo is an ambigram, that is, you can flip it upside down and it will read the same thing. (The "g" will go from lowercase to uppercase.) Oh, I'm so clever!
This logo incorporates one of my favorite motifs which is the "bug-eye" guy. That bug-eye guy is taken from a picture of me holding a baby rattle in front of my face, and then tweaked in Photoshop. The text is my own handwriting, blown-up large.
This one started as a picture of a caterpillar which I "stamped" in Photoshop, added some more subtle lines, and then colored in the "woodge.com" text.
The text for this logo began as hastily colored in squares on a sheet of graph paper and then "stamped" in Photoshop and otherwise tweaked. (I use the "stamp" tool often.) With the bug-eye image (see above).
This is another take on the graph paper squares in which the result was blurred even more so than than later stabs at it (see above).
The text was hand drawn and then tweaked some in Photoshop to smooth out the borders. I then found the dragonfly image elsewhere on the internet and incorporated it as my "dot."
For this logo, I figured out a way to use two basic shapes to contruct my own weird font and then put it all together with some Photoshop tweaking and one of my favorite site mottos. The bug for the dot is also my own little doodle.
This is simply a picture of my site name in chalk near our side porch. Meh.
One of the earliest logos for the site. Basically I took some font in Photoshop and twisted it around some, then added the catch phrase.