Oh, this is fun. In organizing my files, I found a logo I created FIFTEEN years ago - my very first foray into vector art. I had no idea what I was doing, so it was sort of half vector and half... not. I'd literally painted in fill where printing hadn't worked the way I expected. I spent a bit cleaning up lines to make it more reusable. Still might play with the colors some, but it's fun to see the before (left) and after (right). I made the card's arms more buff. :)
Even funnier is the very first draft of it still exists! I showed it to a friend trying to figure out what was wrong, and she was like... "well, he's kind of a pinhead" 🤣. I had based the bottom off Alice and Wonderland art in the public domain, but wanted a plainer head. I later realized something based on a playing card Jack head probably would look better, and that's how I got to the second version.
The logo was based on a Bridge convention (the 7 of diamonds is the "beer card"), and so is holding a beer.
It's also holding a crossword puzzle in the other hand (though the black squares are wrong, there are unchecked letters, and that drives me vaguely bananas). That's because it was the name we used for puzzle events - some of which involved, weirdly, running.
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