Every week I'm asked if I do logos. The answer is "Yes!". To save me from typing out the process over and over (my typing finger is developing a blister) I thought I'd sum it up here with an example. Dashing Mike Gilman needed a logo for his band "Silent Meow" and of course, like all hip and happening entrepreneurs, he knew that I'm the man with the plan. Logos cost a 'lil more than doing a spot illustration. The reasons are they take longer to draw (more folks need to approve and offer input, more worries about getting it just right) and the client gets more out of 'em (a logo ends up on business cards, advertising, t-shirts, etc. 'till the end of time). I start out by asking what he was looking for (clever, ain't I?). His ideas were a shrunken head cat with it's mouth sewn shut as a tattoo design. I start out by doodling out a stack of ideas to nail down the concept. They're free to mix and match elements from the sketches or tell me that they're all wrong and I need to draw a few more (clients should avoid this because it results in me getting surly). In this case he liked #8, so I went to the next stage, which are tight pencils. After those are approved it's off to finished art followed by a group hug.