This is a design I made for my High School Yearbook Club. I made it by creating first the circle then I crafted the dragon to fit in the center and gave it a gradient. I added the thin red rings into the black circle s well as the grey to add texture, then I inserted the type. I was looking for a font that well represented our schools college readiness and then added it to a type on path text box. Finally I topped it off with the dark grey horn to solidify the dragon look of it.
This Is my personal monogram. It contains all three of my initials, the D is in the large triangle, inside that is the E and the K back to back, E on the left and K on the right. I made this with the pen tool. I started by making the black triangle and then adding the letters inside it with white paths. Finally I topped it off by making the line through the background to solidify the shape.