If you are building & have developed your brand identity, please share a full-color pic of your logo. I am interested to see any design trends in new brands. (Taking advantage of extra reach from newscaster bot for some crowdsourcing assistance in hopes of enough responses to see any trends.)

I had a young comic book artist make my first prototype https://i.imgur.com/ugYCMdB.jpg

Founder of Hydrate Labs - Writer, Explorer, Researcher, Arabic Language Enthusiast - Formerly @Comcast 

Nice. Are you sticking with Black and White for your color palette or do you use b/w to open up lots of graphics or color options in your brand materials?

I had a few made but found the white logo was easiest for promotional materials https://i.imgur.com/gJpCGRk.jpg

Used black transparent logo here https://i.imgur.com/I65Qb5W.jpg

I used Pixlr online photo app to change white to black and to make both of these flyers, very useful https://i.imgur.com/Pf7I8O3.jpg

Yes b/w is very flexible when working with art so the logo can be used on any background and the art becomes the color palette. Did you choose to go transparent for an additional reason in the promotional materials?