Logo

Katherine Anne Porter School in Wimberley is a small, accredited public charter school founded by former board members of the Katherine Anne Porter Museum. Their school mascot is a dragon and their colors are silver, blue, and black. Their dragon logo they use is about 10 years old, so I've come up with some refreshed logo options.



My first step was to create a plane and apply my quick sketch to it as a diffuse bmp texture in material editor. I then used the line creator to trace over the drawing. I separated the legs, arms, head, and split the wing into 4 pieces. I beveled them to give them some height and then treated it like a paper sculpture. The chest rivets are an arch with a squeeze modifier. The scales are circles and the neck fringe is just lines made visible in the render as rectangular. I had some trouble getting things to turn in the right direction, so I had to make the wings upright and then turn them in the x plane. Because I was going for more of a paper sculpture/cut out kind of look, I did not use the mesh smooth modifier. Ideally, I would like to, instead of the repeated dragon, include 4 icons that would symbolize the school on the shield.

Below are a couple of other views.


Because logos are typically more simple and meant to be easy to recognize, I created these as well for watermarks and such:


The dragon in the middle was made with the exact same drawing as the coat of arms. I used the trim tool to make it one solid shape and modified the wing before beveling and using the mesh smooth. The text on the top was really difficult. I thought I'd be able to just bend it, but the bend did not go in the direction I expected. So, I did some research and made another circle path within the circle and attached the text to it with the path distort modifier before beveling it. The wax is a silverish material, but made slightly transparent and with some marble and noise mapping.