My Logo

I have been trying to come up with a logo for myself. This is much more difficult then I expected. I have always loved fancy lettering and old type so in my first design I studied lettering and flourishes to create this letter "R" (representing my last name Redford)

I loved it, but for a logo it is much to busy and honestly it unfortunately looks to much like a gang members tatto and I was going for elegant and tatto just doesn't say elegant so I changed it. I saw some circle logos and thought I'd try it. this is what I got.

I know. I know. It is the marriot hotel logo. Bummer. I liked this one too, but not as much as the first and It looks much to similar to the hotel chain. I thought is elegant curves are not working of me why not try a not modern geometric look and this is the logo.

I chose the bigger of the two. I do like the highly masculine look, but I don't know if it is me. This is the logo I will have untill I can design one that I feel better represents me, but not a bad start.