Jopie211

*Slaps wrist with newspaper* *credits uno* *lols* :P

The version without the outlines looks pretty good, my only problem is the shading on the 'main part' (the dark grey bits) of the helmet; it just doesn't seem very realistic (there doesn't really seem to be a clear lightsource). But I haven't played RS in ages, so maybe just that's what the helmet looks like in the game, I don't know. :P

It's not bad, but the background is way too noisy IMO. The blending is decent, but I'm not a big fan of the colours; the signature just seems too monotone and a bit too washed out. Also, I'd take off the border.

You've improved a lot, nice stuff. The first tag and the Bond and Halo ones are really good. :thumbup:

^ Please don't do that. The whole point of pixel art is to pick your own colours and make a fairly complicated picture using simple tools, automatically adjusting the colours or whatever in Gimp just feels like cheating and would ruin the signature IMO. I'd just manually pick some brighter colours and add some highlights to stuff using those.

^ Good advice. #1: It's just quite boring IMO. The colours are pretty dull and the focus isn't particularly good; there just isn't anything interesting to see in the picture. #2: Pretty much the same comment as #1. The colours are slightly better though because there's quite a lot of contrast between the dark rusty bar and the white snow, but the subject and composition still don't make for a terribly interesting photo. #3: Same as #2, there's enough contrast in there but it just doesn't jump out as a great picture. #4: Slightly better because the composition and focus are more interesting, but again, quite boring. #5: I quite like this one. There's just much more to see and the composition is decent too.

#1: A bit too... monotone IMO. I don't know, not a huge fan of it, but it's not too bad. #2: Really like this one, interesting lighting or whatever you would call that on a fractal. #3: Don't really like this one, a bit too random line-y for me. Not sure about the colours either. #4: Really like this one, also my favourite out of the bunch. Again, interesting lighting and good colours and shapes/lines as well.

I think the water could use some more reflections, but other than that and the roughness of the edges of the sails it looks really good. Great job on the sky. :thumbup:

Looks really good so far, but I think the upper part of the skull should be a bit more round if that makes sense.

Looks really good so far, though I agree with littleboy about the dog's chin. I can see what you tried to do with the shading, but especially in the area near his ear it looks quite strange.

Not really IMO, I'd just take the filter off the whole signature because I don't think it works, it just dulls the colours down too much. I'd also get rid of the border, but other than that it looks pretty good. Pretty good flow and decent effects.

Oh, I just meant it looked a bit too much like a piece of rope instead of multiple sausage-like segments like the in-game design. Looks good, but the cast shadows from the pillars seem quite strange. They're curved slightly, shouldn't they be straight? Unless I'm just being stupid. Also, having the character (the main focal point) in the dead center of the canvas might not be the best idea, the basic rules for focal placement for abstract signatures also go for pixel signatures. Not a major issue in this case though. The contrast is definitely better though, good job. :thumbup:

It's not too bad, but some of the edges look really choppy. I'd try to use fewer anchor points and make sure your curves look smooth.

^ A zipped file that includes multiple resources; things like C4Ds, stock images and/or ready-made signatures that you may use to learn new techniques from. Nice job Shiny. :thumbup:

Use the questions/sig resizing sticky next time though.

Had a little idea to stop people from being biased when voting: instead of posting them here, all entrants PM their signatures to littleboy and he puts them in the first post, but doesn't reveal who made which signature. Anyone who posts their entry in the thread or includes their name in the file's name/url gets disqualified immediately. Not sure if it will work, but I think it's worth giving a try.

Yay double post. Socc:

Yeah I'd also crop it. Looks pretty good, but that filter = noplz. Also, not too sure about the lines, I'd just remove them and keep the circle as a focal point (and maybe expand it a little by adding some more smaller circles to/near it). Anyway, nice work.

@Socc, will edit signatures and do your new request later.

I constantly strike. :twss: Anyway: Weird style.

^ Will try.

Socc Masta: ^ Bleh. :?

[b]Jopie211[/b] [img=http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/5023/splashanimesigsotwxv2.png] Might as well enter this, as I know I won't make anything new before the deadline anyway.

^ Agreed, I like. Looks sort of like a green spiraly black hole with stars being sucked into it... :lol:

:thumbup: :P