Some recent tags

[Shiny]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Sam]

I don't really like any of them, save no.3 ; they all seem a little bland at the moment, your colours look washed out at the moment.

[Laxaria]

^ That.

 

 

 

The first one seems to be lacking flow and depth and its quite bland and boring to be honest. Im guessing its because of the color. It doesn't help at all that Altair's clothes are predominantly white/grey, so monochroming a sig with him in it tends to look off in the most part.

 

 

 

Second one seems good, but the focal is being badly distracted by the effects around it. The color on the focal seems weird and the whole thing seemse very messy. There seems to be a "floating head" problem as you don't see any of his body and its kidna creepy. The border doesn't help it much.

 

 

 

The third one is fine.

 

 

 

Fourther one. Text is.... =/ Color is monotoneish and there is flow, but its quite bland and boring still. Text is starting to steal focal, so be wary of that.

[VjuliusT]

Have you tried the eraser?

[Jopie211]

I'll just go through all of them quickly.

 

 

 

#1: It's not terrible, apart from the monotoneness which really makes it pretty boring. I'd just convert it to greyscale and add some contrast and effects, then it could look pretty good.

 

#2: Has a bit of a floating head problem, though it could be worse. The colours do seem too random though, and the effects aren't terribly interesting (the smudging seems a bit too 'soft' if that makes any sense, it's a bit too blurry).

 

#3: Floating head and shoulder, looks pretty strange. D: The effects are alright, but again, it's a bit monotone.

 

#4: Decent, although the border = noplz and the lighting seems pretty random. Also, again, I think the smudging is too 'soft', but that might just be personal preference.

[Shiny]

Thanks jop. I used the vine brush, 1 spacing for most of thesees smudging. Any reccomendations?

[dragoonson]

Haven't been in for a long time,but the one with the funny looking asian guy looks slightly funny.He looks blended in wrong,like he's just been timewarped out of a girl's locker room and into the stomach of a giant space monster.He doesn't seem to belong.

[Shiny]

Better?

 

 

 

[dragoonson]

How bout the back is one color in different shades,and the assassin (dunno his name) is in his regular coloring?

[Jopie211]

^ Noplz. D: Yup, it's better, although I still think it could use more of a splash of colour, but there's not a lot to do with a pretty monotone render like that. Still, it's definitely an improvement.

 

 

 

As for the smudging, try the vine brush with a higher rate (something like 70-100) and mess around with the opacity. Try the same with the hard round circle 19 px brush and splatter brushes as well (thanks Soa :P). :thumbup:

[Shiny]

New smudge only tag:

 

 

 

[Laxaria]

Not digging the border.

 

 

 

Try to read up on some smudging tutorials. I just sent Ouchy one which I found on dA for GIMP. It was very very useful.

 

 

 

Now for your smudge tage.

 

 

 

Its quite bland with no sense of focal or flow or direction or anything for that matter. The colors are ok but needs more variety. The smudging seems quite bland as there is a lack of darker/lighter shades of the same color.

 

 

 

Take out the border. I think.