Yeah... So my group voted on the designs and the top bird is what we are going for. Another one of my group members designed a top hat bat which we are also going with, as well as a duck and a squirrel staring lovingly into each other's eyes.
About the sterility of the lines, I tried making it more like ink, like the font it fades into, but I could not figure how. I probably need to download a new brush or something. However this logo is nowhere near complete so I figured I should move on and make more concepts.
As for the smudged ink concepts, if you are referencing the last post I made, those are just a low quality iTouch photo of some pencil drawings
I will probably be posting more updates on our design in order to get feedback. We are getting some graphic designer feedback tomorrow. 