Serious Opinions(ok, and maybe some not so serious)

It's a start, But I think it needs a bit of tweaking... Curious what kind of design software are you using? I do graphic design for a living....lkm if I can be of any help... ;)

Your focus should more or less be drawn to the center of the image, but you have things competing so your eyes don't know where to look first.

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Originally Posted by Patrick Long

ok, how about this?

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y81...eman/sing2.jpg

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This one is much better.

I like the second one much better!

I think PL Exotics sounds better and stands out more than PL Reptiles. _____ Reptiles is too common...

I think the first one with the Boa on the left and drop the skink but that's just me:D I like very simple here's a couple of mine:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3023/...41ca9df19b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3059/...a253506dcd.jpg

When you're designing a logo, you really want it to be able to do a few things...

1) scale well - Most people use vector graphics to accomplish this, but regardless, your logo should scale from icon to billboard without loss of quality, and be adequately legible at a distance (ie. you should be able to recognize a logo on a t-shirt from 20 feet)

2) minimal colors - If you're planning on having ANYTHING printed (ie. t-shirts, business cards, etc), it needs to look good in 2, or at most a 4 color format.

3) recognition - You want something that people can identify you with, as opposed to just something as a canvas for your name (this is, of course, unless your logo is your name, and then it's usually the typeface and arrangement that makes it recognizable).


Now, that said, if you're just looking to pop up a website, and don't really care about branding and all that jazz, then it's ok to look amateurish, and the time and money is most likely better put to use somewhere else.