Logo Design and Analysis

I tried designing a "freelancer logo" for myself. By doing this I am hoping to understand logo and subsequently title design for future productions. I took advice from a tutorial on the Computer Arts website here. This is what I came up with before I gave up, because it wasn't going well:

It kind of looks like a sports logo, Adidas or something. I thought the soft typeface would work with the pseudonym I gave myself. "Geracs" for the first 6 letters of my last name and "So" for the first two of my first name - this used to be my high school PC account name, which I have adapted as a profile name for various platforms (as seen in my blog URL ;) ) - but together with the colours and the swerved underline, it looks very much like a sports logo and not much like a logo for a freelance VFX artist.

I had a look at portfolio pages and logo designs of post-production supervisors and VFX artists on LinkedIn but I couldn't see a "trend" as the tutorial was suggesting to do. I think I have to follow more tutorials on logo design and typography to get a hang of this, before I create a unique design for my project.