The logo ideas

I had a look on Artstation to try and find some logos for peoples sites. Overall the pictures tend to be either personal pictures or an image of a nice piece of the work and very few had actual logos. Even so I picked some of the ones I liked after my designer friend asked me to get some references to help her create a design I might like.

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 Looking at all logos I found I discovered that most of them are simply the names or initials of the person in a nice font and personally I find this quite an appealing idea. Logos need to be something you can quickly look at and immediately recognise as a brand. Symbols are good however people need to be very aware of them so they can make the connection to your brand, because I don't have a recognized brand my initials or name would be a good idea. However I found that very famous (mostly concept artists) don't even have logos and just their name but as I am starting out I think a nice simple logo of my name and/or initials is the best way to go.
Something I am a little unsure about after looking at various logos were symbols used by some people as I had no idea why they used it or what they represent and I'm quite sure the yellow and black square is a copy of an AMD logo.
As for colour schemes I think the ones with dark colours work best and the ones I like the most are 7, 8 and 10. For 7 I quite like the light grey green colour of the logo but, like the logo, it needs to be subtle not overpowering and I think the colours compliment each other quite nicely however I still have no idea what it is or what it represents. Number 10 also looks quite good and I like the dark blue background with the light blue outline drawing but I still don't know what it represents which is a little disappointing. It is almost like people are trying to get their logo well known before they are so it sort of works against them. For my logo I will definitely go down the name as a logo route with a dark background and probably a light grey text. The light grey/green colour scheme of logo 7 however this seems more of a military feel to it and as I don't have military vehicles and no other greens in my website I think it would clash or at least look strange with the mostly white background.