The face is distracting and slightly creepy looking to me - it needs some work, but this is what I see.
The upper lip colour doesn't seem to match the others, and there doesn't seem to be much harmony in the palette. The chin looks too narrow and maks me think the face is quite jowely and kinda fat. I mostly get Phantom of the Opera. Also, I'm not so sure about the salmon coloured highlight - I think work on those face shapes and maybe pop over to colourlovers.com for some palette ideas.
Nice! I really like the new version. The 'sound & art' concept comes out in the logo and anyone should get the reference instantly. Brilliant idea, well executed. Nice job. As for the font, I'm not as sure. I feel like a slightly distressed looking font for the "Septima Studios" might be a better fit with the new painted-waveform logo design... just a quick look on dafont.com and something like http://www.dafont.com/a-love-of-thunder.font?text=Septima+Studios feels like it might be a good fit. But great work! this is coming along nicely and I like it!
Wow, thank you so much for the feedback. THe font looks better but im not sure still. What do you think? I uploaded two small possibilites
i have to completely agree with Jeff Ballweg. all i can see is a creepy old version of the phantom of the opera.
also agreed that you've got too many colours in the face. the eyes don't need to be different colours and the upper lip doesn't need its own colour.
also agree with dropping "human" from the bottom line. "a place for music & art" would do just fine.
i do think your font choice was ok though.
Pretty good. The colours you have going are good and work well together. Maybe change the subtext to more of a navy blue rather than a black to match the face better.
However, I'm not so sure about the face itself. If your going to use something like this, maybe use one that looks a bit happier. This will great overall a better mood and attitude towards the company. People may see a scary looking currently, and get a little frightened off. A happy one (as stupid as it may sound) would do the opposite.
The idea behind your concept isn't bad, but you still need to refine the shapes, and maybe also try choose different colors.
Also try and redraw the human head, so it looks like a human head. The idea of sound and art doesn't really stand out enough; maybe you can try and integrate a music note instead of one eye.
Try and shorten the text in the bottom line (maybe "music & arts" sounds better).
I agree, i think though that the face doesn't communicate all that i want to. THis new idea feels more cohesive to me.
I like the idea the type as well I would like to see the brush strokes larger maybe descending from larger to smaller and show more artist color palette.
check this website out: http://logopond.com/search/
http://justcreativedesign.com/2009/07/27/what-makes-a-good-logo/
http://justcreativedesign.com/2010/04/21/2010-logo-design-trends/
I think that there is too much colors in your logo, and the font you chose is not that good !
I do understand the arts side with multiple colors, i wouldn't use those colors per say but I would possibly go a little bolder with them. Also the fonts used aren't strong at all. Something for the music and arts is supposed to represent power through creativity and this font doesn't show that very well. Good clean concept I do like it.
I would tweak the face. not sure about how human helps the slogan. colors are nice
Totally, check out the new version!