Religiology Logo

For this project, I was asked to design two different ideas for a new logo that would be used in the website for Religious Studies at UT. To start, I was given a color palette and two sketches to give myself an idea of what to design. These were those sketches:

However, the first color palette was way too dark, so in the meantime I designed my first batch of drafts.

I knew I wanted to incorporate at least one of those sketches into my designs because they looked really cool and gave my a sense of what I could work with. So I went with the one on the right and started to work. Eventually when I got the new color palette I adapted my designs to it and created two new versions of them that really ended up liking. What do you think?

I even made a few mockups of what the logos would look like in context. This is one of them: