How to create a basic mouth with a tongue?

[ONiel]

Hello

I am trying to make a logo for a local restaurant which asked for a new website. This is what I have right now:

 

The text-part in the font Nunito looks okay I guess. But the bottom thing which needs to represent a mouth with a tongue looks a bit shitty I think...

This is what I did to create it:

• I used a brush to create the mouth. I thought a brush would make nice thin/elegant corners of the mouth.
• Then I used a pencil with a fat stroke to create the tongue.
• I used a thinner pencil to create the 'incision' in the tongue.
• I grouped all that, and give a colour overlay as effect.

 

The result is, questionable... How could I make this idea more professional? What tools should I use and what steps should I follow for a better result? I took some inspiration from this image.

Full Affinity-file in the attachments.

Thanks!

logotest.afdesign

[firstdefence]

Use could use the pen tool to make a curve that follows the shape by importing the image and tracing over it. Another way to do this is to use the shape tools such as the tear tool and the crescent tool. The crescent tool is used to make the smile and the ear tool to make the tongue and tear shapes. You then modify them using the shapes adjustment nodes (red dots)

[ONiel]

That looks awesome! Could you put that in an Affinity file?

[Ron P.]

8 hours ago, ONiel said:

Could you put that in an Affinity file?

On photography, design forums, you need to be prepared when you ask. Quoting Forest Gump...."you never know what you're gonna get"

 

Here's my attempt... 😁

tongue_lips plus.afdesign

[Pšenda]

On 2/17/2022 at 5:08 AM, ONiel said:

looks a bit shitty I think

In my opinion, a rough / irregular mouth does not fit a nice and fluent font. I would try to write the bracket character "(", maybe Bold, convert to curves (Layer menu), rotate and resize.

[Alfred]

20 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

In my opinion, a rough / irregular mouth does not fit a nice and fluent font. I would try to write the bracket character "(", maybe Bold, convert to curves (Layer menu), rotate and resize.

I immediately thought of using a bracket/parenthesis, too. If you create it as an Artistic Text object, you can rotate and resize it without first converting it to curves.

[Pšenda]

I used the tongue from the masters - maybe they won't be angry 🙂 

[Alfred]

I wouldn’t include a punctuation mark in a logo unless there’s a very good reason for it; e.g.

Period.

[Old Bruce]

I wonder if there is a reason why the underline (the mouth and tongue) is under the He and not the whole word Hello or the entire HelloFood. To my mind it is making the logo read as He llo Food.

[v_kyr]

I too would emphasize it more to the "food" wording part here then.

[JimmyJack]

Tongues must be bigger!! If I had nickel....... 🤣

Maybe the period it there for a reason! 

At any rate, I like the "oo" idea!!

 

[Pšenda]

A simple variant with a classic smiley