The Way To Creating A Negative Space Logo
Developing a wordmark or letter logo with negative space is a piece of cake by no means. They aren’t created
out of a miracle; it literally takes hours of painstaking work to execute the mental concept in its
original, genuine countenance. Through help from a quality video tutorial, the steps in creating
your own logo can be eased out at their best.
Our vlog provides the comprehensive guide for crafting a clever space logo using Adobe Illustrator,
all by yourself. An easy, step-by-step guideline is sure to deliver you ample guidance in fulfilling
your need right from scratch. The procedure is so simply prepared, even a novice would be able to
play at it efficiently.
So, without sparing a moment let’s proceed with our stepwise guidelines. Don’t forget to give it a
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Step 1:
Here, we are using the word “BANDIT” to create negative space logo for our tutorial reference. Over
the white backdrop, we conceptualize a face for the logo design and roughly draw it. The sketch would be used within the blank or empty area of the letter
“A” in BANDIT.
Step 2:
The font and color have already been selected. A copy of the word BANDIT is created by pasting the
sketch layer in front (Cntrl+F).
Step 3:
Make an outline of “A” (Cntrl+Shft+O), cut it, delete the rest and then paste the “A” in front, so
that now only “A” is visible. Delete the internal or the inner parts of it by deleting the anchor
points until all are cleaned away.
Step 4:
Widen the letter from either sides by clicking on the anchors and nudging them.
Step 5:
Next is altering the color of the “A” to any color of your choice. Flip it, convert it into an
outline and lock it temporarily.
Step 6:
Trace out all the dark areas of this drawing using the pen tool. Note that these are only rough bandit
logo templates and not an actual one. Flip the outline to fill with some color of the selected
regions.
Step 7:
Convert the two filled patches into a compound path (Cntrl+8). Draw the rim to create a hat for a logo using the same process.
Step 8:
Next, draw in a similar fashion the eyes. After it, the top portion of the hat is to be drawn and get it aligned with the “triangle” of the letter “A” in the logo.
Step 9:
Intersect the shape of the “A”. Flip the background of the outline, select the two patches compounded
earlier into a single path and intersect them.
Step 10:
Group together the patch of the triangle, align the rim and the top of the hat with the central
line.
Step 11:
Since the triangle is no longer needed, the entire figure is ungrouped. Change its color to brown,
for instance. Group the whole illustration and make a copy.
Step 12:
Paste the new face over the letter “A” of BANDIT. Create a new layer and paste the newly formed
BANDIT in front. Create outlines (Cntrl+Shft+O), delete the letter “A” from BANDIT. Align the height
and width of the new graphic with the other letters in BANDIT.
Step 13:
Turn the entire word to gray color, adjust its size and we have ready with us a negative spaced logo
graphic where the white space of the “A’ has been utilized to the fullest.
