New Frontier Symbol

[Kevin Garrett]

Hey there, artists! Smogon Frontier is expanding to a 13 brain format. I need your help in making a new symbol.

WHAT I NEED: One symbol that has the same color palette as the other 12 symbols below. As for the design, I would like it to be an engraved version of the Smogon Frontier logo.

Since it is a small space to work with, there will naturally have to be some details left out from the logo.

All submissions will be judged and I'll choose the one that I think is the best! Thanks in advance!

Submissions:

 

[wekhter]

For clarification, this is a gold 16x16 version of the existing logo? Or a gold 335x320 version of the existing logo with 13 branches?

 

[Kevin Garrett]

The logo inside of one of the 16x16 gold circles. I was thinking of having the five outer circles being the darker gold with Koffing being the normal gold. Any detail that can possibly be added to Koffing can be the darker gold.

If there is a better way of accomplishing it, feel free to try it.

 

[Zystral]

Well, I tried, but this is the best I could muster;

It started badly, then started to go well, and then it reached a point where I wasn't happy with it, but anything else I did just made it worse, so here it is, as good as I accept.

What annoys me is that it isn't very gold/gleamy, most likely because the engraved circles take up most of the badge. But that was just too difficult to fix once I realized it because by that point I was drawing Koffing's mouth.

 

[Nastyjungle]

or

I like the first better personally but the second follows the color scheme of the frontier logo more closely

edit: well crap i totally missed your post about making the koffing gold :(
sorry!

 

[Kevin Garrett]

Oh that was pretty creative to make the Koffing dark. I like the first one too.

 

[RitterCat]

My attempt. I'm overall pretty happy with it

 

[Kevin Garrett]

I'll leave this open until Friday for anyone else that wants to turn in a submission.

 

[Ereborus Nyx]

here is mine, i have to say, it looks considerably better when zoomed in 38 times.

 

[Fuzzberry]

or

Took a slightly more minimalist approach than all of the above entries. I got the shape of the logo inside the 16x16 and then focused on duplicating the effect of the shading in the original Emerald symbols. There are two versions- the one on the left has the light source coming from above, the one on the right's light source is top-left. Whichever one fits with the set better can be my entry, though I like the first better.

I'm pretty happy with them. =)

EDIT:
It's only noticable at a high magnification.

 

[Ereborus Nyx]

they both look the same...

 

[Darkmalice]

Here's my three favourites, in order of preference:

Here are other models that I'm proposing just in case you prefer them, in order of preference: It's basically very minor changes to the ones above and some of my older symbols.

Older designs

 

[Kevin Garrett]

Thanks to everyone that entered the contest. These were all cool. I am going to go with Nastyjungle's. Honorable mention to Fuzzberry for making this such a difficult decision.