On Logo and Design of CGPainting.com
I almost missed Martin's post on community building:
I suspect he will be going into an indepth design process for a forum, and there will be more articles to come.
Anyway, for CGPainting.com, I did the logo design.
After creating some rough sketches, I got down to the actual logo design using Inkscape. The brush like shape, and the earthly brown color gave the logo a traditional medium feel to it, and the geometric shapes for composing the 'CG' gave a digital vibe to it.
Martin, as I mentioned, goes into indepth detail of getting a custom logo designed. Having not much of a commercial outlook for CGPainting.com, I did not find it necessary to do so. I did not even want to stick to the default (boring) vBulletin skin, and thus I browsed through the vBulletin.org's gallery of themes, and settled for Blue Darkness.
I might invest some money at a future date depending on how the community picks up. Else, I do not find it necessary to invest into the design, when there are quite a lot of custom but free themes available.
