I used to make head textures with gimp.. I stopped using it, and after a year and a half break from it, I re-downloaded it.. Although, with this gimp 2.8 I don't even understand how to add mirror effects anymore.. Or slight shadows.. I used to do all those fancy shmancy things.. like I would create a grey block, add some shine to it, add a few light shadows, and make it look quite nice.. I forgot how to do that now..
Also, I started off with just the Black ring and V B at first, I thought it looked too plain though and I tried the glow, the glow looked quite nice to me, but then I added the fire and it didn't turn out as nice as I expected.. I wanted the whole logo to be fire and glow, not just the outside rim