lum = Luminocity
Luminocity = Brightness

I use MSPaint.

It's measured in 0-255


Also remember to not go overboard on the detail, at a certain point things just look like a blob of pixels.

Also outlines aren't required, it's merely a stylistic element. However it's useful to use in games to make things stand out, like the player character.

The critique isn't meant to be harsh, I just wanted to point out all of the problems.


Yoman: for your logos I'd recommend straying away from gradients. Classic logos/symbols don't use gradients, but remain classic symbols. Think like the US flag.
The Ronin symbol shouldn't have the name, it should just be that faction's symbol IMO.
The Techion logo might look better if the T was pure white, and the dot was more blue, to make it stand out. As it is the dot doesn't seem very important because it isn't the only blue part of the image- when it should be very important because it's what identifies it as the Whitebot faction.

Flashier Coat of arms eh? Will work on that.

Tweaked it a bit.

I've never liked the M

Maybe just one arrow in the middle of the M?

Matty, you need to change the font, and make that shield part be more noticable, and more shieldy.

I tried, again.

Try to keep it simple, no transparencies, no fancy gradients. Just solid colors.

Version 2:

Simplicity at it's finest [no not really]

Try without the shadow and with cleaner colors, no outlines either and bigger, simpler shapes for the pickaxes.

id say ♥♥♥♥ the clean lines all together and go for something sketchy and tatty since they're a "rag tag" army.

I say we shoudl just make the symbol a R written in blood damnit, cause i give up. I don't have the patience to do logos for very long.

Picturewars army I might turn into a CC mod.

That dropship would make a pretty cool craft. And I like the large mech.
Off topic: And damn, I'm so interested in PictureWars now, It's my kind of thing. Not sure i'd be able to pull off a match though.

The Ronin logo doesn't really fit the Ronin's style in my opinion, they're supposed to be like free-minds and rag-tag rebels right, but when I think of a pickaxe I think of things like slave labor and prison. Also, the word Ronin comes from feudal Japan so maybe the text should have more of an Asian style to it (I don't know).

Also version 2 is very dark.