Jopie211

^ Although I kind of agree in this case, the "No effort, just stuff slapped on a background!!!" posts are getting out of hand IMO, no offence. Anyway, blending and backgrounds. Those are the main things to focus on. The text is better though, and I can see your attempt at blending the sword, but it's not enough. The sword is actually one of the parts of the render that I'd rather leave unblended, and it would make a good focal point, but his body does stand out way too much. Just practise, read tutorials, the usual.

Remove the border and text and you have a pretty decent signature. The render placement (too much near the side IMO) and the colours could be better, but it's fine.

There is a thread for that... viewtopic.php?f=16&t=690610 :? You cannot expect him to do everything, especially in Paint. All pixel art will look terrible when resized, especially if you make it bigger. The sticky is of no use in this case. Also, there are many pixel artists who only use Paint, and you can make a whole pixel signature in that programme.

I agree. Good job for a first pixel though, the hair could use some more detail but apart from that it looks really good (although I do think it looks traced, but like kemikalkadet said I can't really blame you for that on a first pixel). Keep going, and try to make some more pieces with and without using a reference, it helps to improve your drawing skills.

^ Agreed. I quite like the noisy feel, but using that effect everywhere is just too much IMO. Also, Jad looks like it was originally a lot smaller, and you resized it, distorting it quite terribly in the process. It really is a shame, the rest of the signature looks great, it's just Jad that kind of ruins it for me. :(

Exactly. I doubt that you did the trees, somehow. And are the people supposed to be ghosts or something? :# Otherwise, even if you don't want them to attract attention, they are too pale. I'm pretty sure the foliage is brushes. That's usually fine, but in this case it really doesn't seem like you did a lot, and what you did could be a lot better in my opinion. Why are brushes usually fine? It's like renders, the only difference between using brushes/renders and outright stealing somebody elses work is that it's not (usually) illiegal. People need to just do their own work. Oh sure, and you can't use these forums either; you aren't the founder and creator of the software after all. And you can't use Photoshop/Gimp, they're not your applications. Same with your computer, the internet or almost everything else for that matter. People need to just do their own work.

Looks decent, I agree with dsavi about the text and the bottom part of the scroll though.

1st sig: Could be better. It lacks depth, effects and good lighting. I'm with Julius here about the style, it doesn't really work for me either in this signature. 2nd sig: A lot better, I think this is one of your bests. The black parts of the C4D in the upper right look strange though, I'd erase that part. The fractals look pretty good, although low quality. I really like the first one actually, it's unique.

Exactly. I doubt that you did the trees, somehow. And are the people supposed to be ghosts or something? :# Otherwise, even if you don't want them to attract attention, they are too pale. I'm pretty sure the foliage is brushes. That's usually fine, but in this case it really doesn't seem like you did a lot, and what you did could be a lot better in my opinion.

The last signature looks pretty good, although the simple style on most of the other ones isn't for me. They don't look bad, just pretty basic.

It looks pretty good so far, can't say much yet though - and even then, I doubt I'd be able to give you much advice becuase I don't know a lot about vector art.

I pretty much agree with Julius, it looks alright, but I just don't think the smoother looking C4Ds go well with the grungy background. The effects call for a different style of smudging.

I'd say they look alright, some improvement, but you still need to work on depth, colours, flow lightning and composition. Also, maybe try using some renders/stocks that aren't pictures of girls, the concept is getting a bit repetitive.

^ You could have just PM'ed him the banner you know. I'm pretty sure this counts as hijacking, and although I personally don't really care, it's just not at all polite and you shouldn't do this again in the future.

I have to agree with DH here. It just doesn't work for me, looks like two or three different pieces of art put together. Most parts have potential IMO, but together they're confusing and distracting. Sorry. :(

Most of those look good to me, #1-4 seem quite basic in terms of effects/backgrounds though. I really like #7 (not a big fan of the text though), #8 (but I think this one would benefit greatly from some sharpening) and your smudging on # 9 and 10. Overall, nice work, I'd love to see some more soon.

:cry: --- The painting looks pretty good, obviously very messy but I kind of like that look. I can't give much advice on tablets (although I do use one myself), but like Kaphias said just have fun with it and you'll get to grips with it automatically.

sephiroth_king [img=http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/8418/sephirothkingsigqc6.jpg] Lol, probably not at all what you expected. If you do use it, I wouldn't mind a little credit.

They're way too simple. It's just a few motion blurred copies of the render/some fractals for the background. I'm getting tired of saying the same thing over and over again, but you'll probably want to get a better graphics program, you need to work on blending, text, make you work look more interesting, read tuts, keep practising, good luck.

Agreed. The background looks great (lots of colours used for the sky though, I'm sure you could do with one or two less), but the wolves really do look out of place. The anatomy of the ones on the right seems slightly off too, the legs don't look very natural to me.

Apart from what littleboy said, you really do need to stop using your current background style like I said when I commented on another signature of yours. The style is getting old and doesn't look that great.

^ /facepalm Yes, you can.

It's not great, but could be worse. The background isn't very interesting and seems to lack flow, the colours are decent though. I'd also work on blending, mainly the right side of the dragon stands out a lot and could be smudged for example. Also, you'll probably want the dragon's head to be the focal point, so it would be best to move the text somewhere else or to take it off completely, because it's quite distracting at the moment. Keep practising and you'll improve. Looking at signature tutorials also helps, there are plenty of them on http://www.deviantart.com.

Looks pretty good, nice style. One little thing though, there is a red-ish glow on his body, but not on his face and hair, which seems a bit strange.

kenshinjapan We need a link to a render with a transparent background (as clearly stated in the order form...). I'm willing to use stock images too, but please make sure they are actually free to use and aren't bad quality. Sorry, but I doubt anyone can work with images like the ones you provided. sephiroth_king Same as Jason. I'm going to give it a try, but I'll leave out the subtext for now.