Illustrator: Draft logo and summary

This draft logo was much more free and easy to me then Photoshop. In regard to logos, I feel as if you don’t have to try too hard to make it complicated because logos are made to be simple, yet logical to your subject. In my instance, my topic is myself and I always have thought self esteem is important to one’s self. I decided with this logo to create a group of star shapes to be the basis of my logo, but I also gave them faces and increased the size each time as if it is a child growing up and finding his happiness. My logo’s motto is “keep on keeping on” because that is ultimately what you have to do in life no matter the circumstances. There is always tomorrow! In regard to the design process, I kept it fairly simple as I am not an exert with all the tools in Illustrator. I made a yellow background with a red 3 pt. stroke to present a kind of warm feeling to the logo. I made the stars basically the same color but it appears a little more burnt because I adjusted the gradient to make the stars to appear faded out because they are people and people have stress. I also obviously used the brush tool and text tool to display the meaning of the logo.I also would group the objects together so when I was making adjustments it would make them to all of them because I wanted all of them to look similar. I did not use any sites for research as I thought I had a pretty good grasp on what I wanted to display with the meaning of my logo. In essence, I know it probably won’t be the best logo, but it has substance and meaning and that goes along way. I’m looking forward to your guy’s feedback and I hope to present a better logo next week for my final draft! Thank you!