Alright, let me tell you about trying to get hold of a Porsche Carrera 911 logo in that simple clip art style the other day. It turned out to be a bit more of a thing than I first thought.
So, I needed this logo, not the super detailed official one, but something more basic, like a drawing. You know, clip art. For a little project I was messing around with.
My First Steps
Naturally, I just jumped online. Fired up my browser and typed in the obvious stuff: porsche 911 logo clip art, carrera logo simple drawing, things like that. You know how it is.
Well, the search results popped up. Loads of images, yeah. But mostly, it was either:
- Real photos of the badge on a car.
- Super complex vector files that designers use.
- Some blurry or watermarked stuff that wasn’t really usable.
Finding that clean, simple, free-to-use clip art version? Not so easy. Lots of fancy stuff, but not the basic outline I had in my head.
Digging a Bit Deeper
Okay, plan B. I started adding words like free, outline, or silhouette to my search. That helped a little, filtering out some of the photographic stuff. I landed on a few websites that claim to have free clip art.
Spent some time clicking around those sites. Some had okay-ish versions, but often they wanted you to sign up, or the quality wasn’t great, or it looked kinda weird – not quite the Porsche crest. You get the picture. It felt like I was hitting a bit of a wall.
Making It Work
I got a bit frustrated, thinking, “It’s just a logo, how hard can it be?”. Then I figured, maybe I don’t need a perfect, ready-made file. What are the main bits? The shield shape, the horse in the middle, those antler things, the stripes.
So, here’s what I ended up doing:
I found a clear picture of the actual Porsche logo online. Just a standard image.
I opened up a really basic image editor I have – nothing fancy, maybe something like Paint or whatever simple tool you’ve got.
I basically started tracing over the main parts. Drew the shield outline. Sketched a very simplified horse shape in the center shield. Added rough blocks for the red and black stripes. Put in some simple lines for the antlers. I didn’t even bother trying to get the “Porsche” or “Stuttgart” text in there – way too small and fiddly for simple clip art.
The result? It wasn’t an official logo by any means. If you looked close, it was pretty rough. But, you know what? From a distance, it looked like the Porsche crest. It had the right basic shapes and colors. It was good enough for what I needed it for.
Sometimes, just grabbing the essence of the thing and sketching it out yourself, even roughly, is faster and easier than searching forever for that perfect, elusive file. Worked for me this time, anyway!
