Wow, I can't believe I finished this on time. Here you will find screenshots of my progress and any obstacles I encountered while replicating this logo.
Right from the beginning, I had an issue with the background of the logo completely covering my reference, as you can see in this screenshot:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/842/scnsht1hideshowlayers.jpg/
In order to work around this without moving the circles (so I wouldn't have to re-align them afterwards), I hid both layers while I was working on the rest. Good thing I put them on separate layers!
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/829/progresscropped1.jpg/ - It's finally starting to take shape!!
While working on the "Toronto" letters at the top, I encountered another problem. Try as I may, I couldn't get the circular O to look clean. I tried over and over again and could only get it this close (which is total crap):
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/21/sloppyoscrnshot.jpg/
So instead of using the pen tool, I used the circle tool (Duh! Why didn't I think of that earlier?!), and resized it to get a very nice, clean O.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/710/fixedoscrnshot.jpg/
After I finished "Toronto", I started working on "Raptors". Upon finishing up, I realized that when I filled them in, Illustrator filled in the shapes I made for the holes in the letters as well!
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/638/letterholesunfinishedcr.jpg/
Using what I learned on my first obstacle, I hid the "Raptors" and "Toronto" layers, and created a layer on top of both. In this layer, I traced out the holes in the letters, and filled them in. When I toggled the other layers back on, I was pleasantly surprised with my result:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/834/finishedletterholescrop.jpg/
The rest, after this, was smooth sailing. There was a lot of detail to trace, but it was more tedious rather than troublesome. A couple of hours later, and it's finally finished!
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/194/finishedzx.jpg/
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