Okay, so I was messing around online today, trying to find some cool designs, you know, just for fun. And I stumbled upon this idea to try and recreate the Los Angeles Chargers logo. I’m no artist, but I thought, “Why not give it a shot?” It looked pretty neat, and I figured it would be a fun little project to kill some time.
First things first, I needed a good picture of the logo to use as a reference. So, I just did a quick search and found a bunch of images. I picked one that was clear and high-quality. I saved it to my computer so I could open it up and look at it while I worked.
Next, I had to decide what I was going to use to actually draw the thing. I’ve got a few different programs on my computer that I could use, but I ended up going with a simple drawing program that I’m pretty comfortable with. It’s nothing fancy, but it gets the job done. And it’s free, which is always a plus.
Once I had my reference image and my drawing program all set up, I just started trying to copy the logo. I started with the basic shape, that lightning bolt. It’s pretty simple, right? But getting the proportions and the angles just right took a little bit of trial and error. I erased and redrew it a bunch of times until I was happy with it.
- Outlined the lightning bolt shape.
- Filled it in with the main yellow color.
- Added the blue outline around the bolt.
- Then added the white border around the blue.
After I had the lightning bolt down, the rest was just filling in the colors and adding the outline. That part was actually pretty easy. It was just a matter of picking the right colors from the color picker and then carefully filling in each section. The logo is mostly just yellow, with that blue outline and a little bit of white.
Getting the Colors Right
The colors were a little tricky to match perfectly. I used the eyedropper tool in my drawing program to sample the colors from the reference image, but they still looked a bit off. I played around with the color settings for a while until I got them as close as I could. They are not a perfect match but I think I got it pretty close.
The whole process took me a couple of hours, maybe three. I wasn’t really keeping track of time, to be honest. I was just kind of enjoying the process and seeing how close I could get it to look like the real thing. I’d say it turned out pretty good, especially considering I’m not really an artist or anything.
It was a fun little project, and it was cool to see the logo come together step by step. Maybe I’ll try to recreate some other logos in the future. It’s a good way to practice my drawing skills and it’s just kind of relaxing, you know? Plus, it’s always satisfying to create something, even if it’s just a copy of something else.
