David Noll Earth Gallery

Davidnoll.earth. 

So, back to the matter at hand, my logo.  I started out with this pen and ink drawing to get the idea out of my head.  This logo is nothing like what you see today, but gave me a place to start from.  This piece is on vellum:

I never completed this drawing above as the ‘O’ kind of went wrong and I didn’t like the overall design, so I went another direction.  The next thing I did was make a version of an earth covered in blood.  I decided to use the same vellum as it could accept gouache paint, which is a type of watercolor paint, just extremely concentrated giving me a similar effect to oils.

It looks cool to me still, but it must have cracked slightly in some places.  I tried a unique experiment with gouache and various other glues and watercolor experiments I was working on at the time in 2023.

Here’s what this painting looks like that I tried in gouache.  I was going for a nuclear green on the land as I wanted to express how earth would look after nuclear winter, but I realized after researching the Bible more that it will never probably happen, so I went another direction:

I wanted to incorporate type using some Blender models I was messing around with in 2023.  I originally wanted my name to be projected kind of like a bat signal from spotlights, but this didn’t look right when I tried it out.

I wanted the words of EARTH to be vaccines.  I decided on some models I made of vaccines based on the original vaccines photos I had seen which had stickers on them saying ‘discard after use’.  This maneuver by international governments I believe now was to stop the bioweapons and human experimentation evidence they used on us without consent from ever being exposed to the public.

In my version, I put “Destroy after use” in golden vaccines, as this is exactly what was done.  Not the vaccines being destroyed after use, the people who took them were the ones destroyed.  They are golden as that is what it made their creators, pockets full of American fiat currency.

I put it all together, but it just didn’t work together for me from a design standpoint.  I wanted the planet to be more three dimensional than the textured gouache on vellum looked.  Also the type of my name didn’t work for me in this orientation and I thought gold letters were too cliche’ for my final logo.

Here is that rejected logo, which has merits, but ultimately I went another way:

I found a series of great tutorials on how to make an earth using blender on YouTube then.  Its way different than how I normally sculpt in there with just creating a form and sculpting it.

This method was low on sculpting as the only sculpture was a low poly sphere.  I applied a series of textures maps and image maps with corresponding nodes.

So, here are some quick renders I did of different angles of my logo, so you can see its a 3D model and also how it all fits together: