Some of My Sigs

July 14, 2008, 4:46 AM

New to this forum so thought I'd post a bunch of my sigs, some are recent, others are quite old. All done on photoshop.

And before anyone says, I post on other forums under the names "shinobi" & "shinobi flux".

So, c&c anyone?

July 14, 2008, 8:43 AM

1st one: I like how the Solider is blended well, but the BG is kinda rough somehow.

2nd one: You should have let more than her face to show in the tag like shoulders, and the BG is kinda messy :/

3rd one: I like the BG it's kinda simple and pretty good but I don't think the render is blended well with the BG.

4th one: It's kinda messy but however I kinda like it will the fire thing and al.

5th one: I would say no to this tag, it's just smudging really :/ and just like I said in Yuna's tag about the render.

6th and 7th: They kinda the same style but with different colors, though Balmung tag colors doesn't fit, however the girl tag is kinda pretty. ^^

8th and 9th: Nothing really in that picture maybe just blurring duplicating layer and then a blend mode.

10th one: I actually have no Idea what's that. O_O

And I would like to point something in your tags and that is: you use text very much try and not use it every time, also try Gradient Maps, Photo Filters.

Sorry if you feel I was harsh or something but that's only so you can get better. :/

July 14, 2008, 10:42 AM

I see great potential.

Keep working at it, and you'll get better really fast.

July 14, 2008, 2:40 PM

I'd say that the first one is the best but the stock is almost discernible from the background. I noticed you opted to go for the smudged effect in a lot of your works, just try to broaden your horizons a bit and test out other effects and other ways of composing your background with various blending techniques and filters and brushes and whatever else you feel like throwing into the mix.

I see you tried a totally different approach with the third one there but the fractal render in the background looks untouched to me, like you've just placed it there and left it. Another thing I noticed is your borders are generally thick and they stand out a lot, particularly in the last two. Try making them thinner and blending them in.

Other than those points I think you have potential, all you need to do is stick to it and try as many different approaches as you can. Strive to broaden your horizons and you'll be as good as you want to be in no time at all.

July 14, 2008, 4:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Kei

6th and 7th: They kinda the same style but with different colors, though Balmung tag colors doesn't fit, however the girl tag is kinda pretty. ^^

8th and 9th: Nothing really in that picture maybe just blurring duplicating layer and then a blend mode.

And I would like to point something in your tags and that is: you use text very much try and not use it every time, also try Gradient Maps, Photo Filters.

Sorry if you feel I was harsh or something but that's only so you can get better. :/

Yeah the 6th and 7th are basically the same, I made them one after the other, I made a third after those two aswell.

lol, the 8th & 9th have more layers than most of them up there, though it does look like I haven't done much. Followed a tut for those two, didn't really help lol.

I actually hate text, really don't like using it, try not to most of the time. Gradient maps, all of them apart from the Yuna one have atleast 2 gradient maps used. Mostly use the black and white set at luminisoty or color dodge (drop the opacity) as for photo filters, I used them loads when I first started, kinda just stopped using them these days though.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Riku

I see great potential.

Keep working at it, and you'll get better really fast.

Thanks.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Casanova

I'd say that the first one is the best but the stock is almost discernible from the background. I noticed you opted to go for the smudged effect in a lot of your works, just try to broaden your horizons a bit and test out other effects and other ways of composing your background with various blending techniques and filters and brushes and whatever else you feel like throwing into the mix.

I see you tried a totally different approach with the third one there but the fractal render in the background looks untouched to me, like you've just placed it there and left it. Another thing I noticed is your borders are generally thick and they stand out a lot, particularly in the last two. Try making them thinner and blending them in.

Other than those points I think you have potential, all you need to do is stick to it and try as many different approaches as you can. Strive to broaden your horizons and you'll be as good as you want to be in no time at all.

Thanks. Been following a few tuts lately on different things so will hopefully help out with different styles.

July 14, 2008, 5:53 PM

You're quite good, I see a variety of style there. I wish I can smudge properly, but I just don't have the knack for it. I like the 4th one the best as it's very appealing to the eyes. I noticed that you don't really resize your render and just shows the head without neck an shoulders. That's actually quite unappealing to many GFX artists, so I suggest resizing the renders to where it shows some of her body parts beside just the face. Other than that, just keep practicing, although I can tell you've already got potential and skills. Hope to see more work from ya'!

By the way, how long have you been using Photoshop?

July 14, 2008, 7:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mitsuki

You're quite good, I see a variety of style there. I wish I can smudge properly, but I just don't have the knack for it. I like the 4th one the best as it's very appealing to the eyes. I noticed that you don't really resize your render and just shows the head without neck an shoulders. That's actually quite unappealing to many GFX artists, so I suggest resizing the renders to where it shows some of her body parts beside just the face. Other than that, just keep practicing, although I can tell you've already got potential and skills. Hope to see more work from ya'!

By the way, how long have you been using Photoshop?

Thanks.

Been using it for a while to be fair, but my laptop died on me, so didn't have it for about 10months or so, only recently got it back, so just been refreshing my memory and learning new things past few weeks. From the 6th one onwards are my most recent, done in the past couple of weeks.

July 15, 2008, 4:01 AM

Try cutting out more from your stocks than just the head of a character. Floating head syndrome is unappealing. You should also work on not making your text stick out so much (like on the second to last one). You've gotten noticeably rusty between 6 and the last one. XD

I don't really have much else to say...

July 15, 2008, 4:36 AM

They all look great to me.Ive made only one though the whole time ive had Photoshop Cs3.