Hard Working Out

The idea of avatar, and logo design can be a complicated and sometimes touchy subject. Oftentimes many people will have disagreements as to how something which can represent something as little as a run down garage in a small town, or represent something as big as entire nations. 

Jhartley27 created an avatar to represent his passion for health and fitness. The emblem features a hand drawn (with haste) workout machine in an energetic purple color. The machine has a person in front of it, a body builder, Jharltey himself perhaps. The character is tall, with a massive upper body, full of muscle. The character has very prominent pectoral and abdominal muscles, supported by jacked legs, at least until they reach the purple toned knees, where the characters legs become stick-like, skinny, and sewn to miniature ball-like feet, like little pins pushing into a clay model. The character has a squeaky clean head, as shiny as can be, and a big smiley face, with bright eyes, and he’s wearing a pair of purple shorts to match the machine.

The character created by Hartley helps to demonstrate his passion for working out and maintaining his body. Hartley has been working out consistently for 3 years, and goes to the gym or works out between 4 and 5 times a week. He says his main focuses are, “moving a lot of weight,” and “having fun” so he can reach his goals and “get stronger”, and keep his body healthy, and good looking.

Something I find interesting about this avatar is that Jhartley chose the color purple for nearly everything in the drawing. However, I think this was a good decision because it keeps the design simple, while still keeping it interesting.

In contrast, my avatar was not such. While Hartley drew his by hand, allowing him a quicker drafting process, and possibly increasing workflow, productivity, and simplicity, I chose to go for a more advanced option, using the graphic design program Canva, to digitally produce my logo, which on one hand, can streamline the process, and increase the attractiveness of the final product, it also can inhibit creative function because Canva uses its own library for graphics, which won’t allow you to necessarily make things exactly as you imagine it initially.

Featured Image: Pixabay.com by TomCam.