A Weightlifting Logo

After seeing my previous logo designs — my and the logos —, my Olympic Weightlifting coach, Rogerio Sousa, asked me if I could make a logo for him.

The image I posted on instagram had slightly worse centering for the face. That happened due to a lack of attention when I was finishing the design: I put the text in and didn't realize that its center would not necessarily coincide with the rest of the image's.

Initially, he gave me a picture with insufficient contrast, which would be a lot of work for me, since the Image Trace from Adobe Illustrator wouldn't be able to work that well. And, thus, I asked him for a picture with more lighting; Image Trace works better when there is great contrast for making icons, i.e., extracting the most iconic features of the image.

I suggested he took a picture similar to one in which Dmitry Klokov, and others, are holding the barbell and the plates trying to emulate a warrior's pose.

Klokov Warrior — The original post can be found here

Plate Barbell Warrior Initial Picture — The photo we took featured the warrior's pose and much more lighting, specially on his face.

The bonus logo, an abstraction on the snatch position. The slight asymmetry is intentional, I think it gives more realism to the picture, although I would probably have to work a bit more on it if I were to really use it as a logo for something.

I've shared the design process on Instagram, but you can also check it out on YouTube. As a bonus, I've managed to make the snatch logo originally on his T-Shirt more abstract and, thus, creating a new logo in and of itself.