Critique this sig in progress.

[ShunNakamura]

Wow this is different from your others!

I like this one even though you could have worked a little hard on the bg! BUT it doesn't ruin the sig! 9/10!

Yeah as I said very little work done on it overall. I was too hot to sleep and just was throwing stuff together. That and I was too lazy to try and render those pictures since it had tough hair in them so I just used face cuts to get the extra characters in it!

Anyways I got another one that I didn't really put too much effort into. Just mostly goofing off and trying out things a bit different from my usual.

The border is a bit fugly and it didn't come out with the effects I was trying to implement(I accidently fused somelayers I had wanted to play with more early one and was unable to restore them, so I had to go with a simplier idea).

[ShunNakamura]

Actually put some effort into this one so it came out a bit more successful in my opinion than some of the other recent ones.

Still a bit simplistic, but I am finding it hard to get the inspirational strength that I generally run off of to produce my better ones.

[Polaris]

I love the bg (it looks like a fingertip) and the text, I'm not sure about the image you used, it doesn't match, however the bg 10/10 and text 10/10

[ShunNakamura]

I actually was intending it to be a friendship based signature at first. But about halfway through the BG it sort of took on a life of its own. And I was far too lazy to cut out another stock for it[besides, while it wasn't an optimal image I still think it doesn't fit too badly, though that might just be cause I like those characters].

I don't like this as much as the last one. Probably should have found a colored image of Amy to use rather than the black and white sketch I found laying on my computer(wished I remembered where it came from.. the artist is quite good).

[Swan]

Haha love the boxing one, that is so cute. The background on that one looks great, and the render is positioned well.

Latest one is good, nothing really spectacular.

And the one your using good, but I'd use the boxing one if I were you. That one takes the cake.

[ShunNakamura]

Well now I know why I have been avoiding photoshop for a while.... I must have drained my creativity pool nearly completely somewhere along the line.That and I lost most of my brushes and C4D's when my computer died on me :/.

This is mostly a concept that I'll, hopefully, beef up once I get some brushes and C4D's online.... I lost most of mine when I reinstalled[why did I have to go and forget to copy my brushes folder before doing that?!].


Hopefully I'll get back in the saddle now that AQS has released some more Negima Chapters. That should be enough to at least get me attempting to get out of this slump.




P.S. You know it has been a long time when your signature thread drops to page 2 . Also Hopefully I'll get around to doing some comments of my own now.

[ShunNakamura]

Wah!!! this one was something I was just experimenting with... but now I got books to read and between books and sigs books win out. Thus, I likely won't ever fully finish this experiment so I'll just add it to the dump.

[Polaris]

bg looks kinda blur... the up one is better

[ShunNakamura]

Problem with the BG in that one was that I just couldn't find a good balance that still let me do with it what I wanted[hence it was a failed experiment... though I did learn a bit about playing with some features I have up to then ignored... I just did 'too' much to it].

And of course if I am posting that means I got a new one. And this one I actually find satisfactory!

[ShunNakamura]

I got another one that I made because I got critique that I bury the render under too many layers[making it blend too much with the BG]. Thus, I attempted fewer more detailed layers rather than my usual limitless layers that each have one thing on it/going on. This was the result.

[ShunNakamura]

Didn't come out quite as well as I hoped but it ain't bad.

[XandrewX]

The first one and the last one looked too..complicated..Maybe it's just me because there's too many picture in one sig but..the 2nd one is perfect.Nice and clean and simple.

[ShunNakamura]

The first one and the last one looked too..complicated..Maybe it's just me because there's too many picture in one sig but..the 2nd one is perfect.Nice and clean and simple.

Actually I did find out what the problem is with many of them. They lack a true center of focus. For example the Yuri render is on the wrong side for the "focus" to be the way I wanted.

And actually believe it or not the Yuri one has just as many renders in it as the Vista one does[three in the vista, three in the Yuri and four in Saturn] . I just blended them differently.


Decided to do a quicky just to see if I could get my 'line of focus' up and working rather than drawing the eye way from the sig :/. Background is a bit meh.. .but I didn't spend much time on it, nor many layers.

[ShunNakamura]

I fear I didn't blend the render enough. In addition since it was a quicky where I was just trying to put in various suggestions for practice that also means it is quite simple... not that simple is bad itself, but this feels too simple to me. Also it looks like I messed the lighting up somewhere... I really need practice with the lighting in Photoshop.

[ShunNakamura]

And finally I have made a Halloween sig.

Isn't the puppy SOOO cute?!