Jopie211

:shock: AWESOME! Thanks. Could you resize it to 40kb for me, please? Thanks : EDIT: SirHartlar

^ I'll give it a try.

Exo Politics - Muse.

Yeah I also lol'd. :lol: Especially because he posted right after Yaff said that he wouldn't do pixels... /facepalm

Jasonub :D

#1: Not great IMO. The main problem is the negative space on the sides, the white doesn't work with the orange and red. Overall, the colour scheme just isn't great, and the negative space, effects and focal placement make for quite a boring signature. #2: Better. The subtle affects actually work quite well IMO, but it's too monotone. I'd either make it B&W and adjust the brightness/contrast if necessary or take of the filter/whatever that's causing the colour scheme to be like this. #3: It's just way too brushy. it doesn't actually look that bad, but tech brushes aren't a great way to make a background/create effects. Try something a little more original.

Agreed. I quite like V2 though, good to see a new style from you. :thumbup: Nice flow, and I'd say the text actually works here too. :P

I quite like the Cloud signature and your fractals, although I do think most of your sigs still have colour/contrast issues. The DK one is nice though, a lot more vibrant and IMO more interesting than your usual stuff. The photo I really like. The composition and the 'dull' colours really work in this case, good job. The focus seems good too. :thumbup:

There are three main things that make the signature look quite random and not very appealing IMO: The text. It's pretty big and distracting and pixely, slightly techy looking fonts like that usually aren't the best choice. The black shadow/outline is also really distracting. I suggest you get rid of the text alltogether. The outline on Charizard: again, distracting, and it makes the render stand out a lot from the background. The lines in the background: bad colour choice, a bit random and they don't help the flow. Other than that, it isn't too bad. The '[bleep]y' effects in the background could work pretty well if you get rid of some of the other stuff. Just remember, sometimes less = more.

^ That covered most of the issues the drawing has, other than that it's not too bad. It's a start, but like said before, it will need quite a lot of refinement to make it look more realistic. The messy linework is also quite a major problem. It's always best to make sure your lines are clean and the perspective is accurate before you start adding any colour/detail/shading. If your linework is sloppy, it will show in the rest of the pixel drawing.

Hmm, strange. Not sure how you would fix it, maybe try reinstalling Gimp though? Assuming you've already tried restarting Gimp/you computer.

I do, and I also clearly remember some of your work, and I must say really respect you as an artist. But, believe it or not, I actually strongly suspected from the start that you didn't mainly post this to get criticism on the image, which is the only reason I didn't comment on this thread before. Now, about the whole Gallery going downhill thing, I definitely agree that some of the comments on beginners' works are just made to bash the OP and make the commenter feel 'superior' to the OP, and I also agree that this is clearly not a good thing. However, I don't think complaining about it or making a whole thread for the main purpose of showing to everyone how the Gallery is such a terrible place now compared to how it used to be and how some people's style of posts are 'bad' - for the lack of a better word - is going to help at all. I'm pretty sure that most people didn't come here to get comments on their posting style, but fact is, by making a thread like this, you do suggest that you did come here to get comments on your work. To me, comments you get from others on your work are just more of a 'take it or leave it' thing: you either take them into consideration and thank the commenter for their post, or you think to yourself "that's a silly and unhelpful post..." and just ignore it. It's something that has been bothering me for a while, because by complaining about people that complain about beginners' work you don't exactly help create much positivity in this forum either - and some may even consider it to be slightly hypocritical -, and it's nothing personal, but I've grown really tired of seeing threads like this. Instead, I think it would be a much better idea to try and actually help the atmosphere of this forum by posting comments that you do think are good and helpful on other people's threads. :thumbup: --- Long post, and if some of you feel a need to accuse me of complaining about people that complain about people that complain about people's work, feel free to do so. I just needed to get this off my chest I guess.

I made #2. :o

Congratulations. :thumbup:

City Of Delusion - Muse.

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Mine :) But Jopie, you try too. You're a penguin, therefore you make better work. Lol, will do. :P

^ Yeah I agree, take that out.

4/10.

5/10.

There you go. Made the swirls grey because purple looks really really bad.

Love it. :P The watercolour version looks great too IMO, but I think it would look even better if you had also coloured the background (a nice light blue could work pretty well I think).

I quite like the circles actually. The colours work pretty well too, and so does the big focal, but I do wonder how much of it you made yourself. I really like it, but it does look to me like a stock with colour changes and circles added to it. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing in this case, but I'm just curious.

Actually, I think it looks really good, especially for a first pixel. It's at least ten times better than most first pixels I've seen, and definitely ten times better than my first attempt. The main and only major problem for me is the brick wall. The saturated colours, too 'perfect' looking pattern and the lack of shading make it look very unrealistic. Try to add some more grey to your colours, make the pattern a bit more 'random' and maybe even add some dirt or cracks to the wall.

It's definitely a step up, and it's good to see you try something different than the standard filter background + render thing. I also like the depth you created on the render, but it looks quite weird combined with the C4D in the background, because the C4D doesn't really have much depth to it. But apart from the flow issue, there aren't that many problems at all, so good job.