Man, let me tell you, trying to nail down a logo for a pressure washing gun, it’s one of those things you think will be a piece of cake, but then it just eats your lunch. It’s not like they teach you this stuff in school, you know? You just gotta dive in and hope for the best, most of the time.

So, I needed this logo. Don’t ask why, long story, not super exciting. But the point is, I had to make it. My first thought was, easy peasy. It’s a gun, it sprays water. How hard can it be? Famous last words, right? I grabbed a pen and the back of an envelope – my usual high-tech setup – and started sketching. First few tries? Looked like something a kid would draw. Or worse, like some weird sci-fi weapon that had nothing to do with cleaning anything.

I realized pretty quick the gun itself needed to look like a pressure washer gun, not just any old gun. So, I tried to get that specific shape, the nozzle, the handle. But then, if you make it too detailed, it stops being a logo and starts being an illustration, and that’s no good. Logos gotta be simple, something you can recognize even if it’s tiny.

Then came the water spray. Oh boy, the spray. How do you make water look like it’s coming out with force? I must have drawn fifty versions of that spray. Some looked like gentle rain, some looked like the gun was just leaking pathetically. I wanted that powerful, fanned-out look. I messed around with sharp lines, smooth lines, jagged lines. For a while there, everything just looked... messy. Not 'clean and powerful' messy, just 'what on earth is that' messy.

I even tried to get clever with it, thinking maybe the spray could form a shape, or interact with some imaginary dirt. But that just made it too complicated. Back to basics. Gun. Spray. That’s it. I fired up some really basic design software on my computer – nothing fancy, just enough to draw some straight lines and curves without them wobbling all over the place like my hand drawings.

Color was another thing. Blue is the obvious choice for water, right? But everyone uses blue. I wanted something that would pop a bit. Thought about green, maybe even a bright orange accent. But in the end, a strong, clean blue for the water part just felt right, maybe with a dark grey or black for the gun itself to give it some solidity. Kept it simple.

There were moments I just wanted to give up, honestly. Thought about just finding some generic clipart. But I’m stubborn. I kept tweaking. Moved the gun angle a bit. Changed the thickness of the spray lines. Made the nozzle a tiny bit more prominent. Little things. Sometimes you stare at it for so long you can’t even tell if it’s good or bad anymore.

Finally, after what felt like ages, I got something that didn’t make me cringe. It was simple. You could tell it was a pressure washing gun. The spray looked reasonably powerful. It wasn’t going to win any design awards, that’s for sure. But it worked. It did the job. And sometimes, just getting the job done is a win in itself. So yeah, that was my little wrestle with the pressure washing gun logo. A lot of fiddling, a bit of frustration, but got there in the end. That's usually how these things go, isn't it?