Rauk - Well I usually tend to always like b.w tags as you can see in my tag, but this one I guess you could say is a bit too simple. I mean I know if you look at the background there seems to be a bit more, but there is not a whole lot. Also the overall feel just seems to be weird and has an off look to it. I think the first thing that is really killing it for me is the lighting and the render put together. The render itself just seems to have this huge and insanely bright light source on it coming from the left and is just insane. However, the light source you have on this is large, but it does not give me that actual feel of such a bright light source as it is portrayed on the render. Also I think the render is a bit back too far. I think if it was larger and a tad closer it might look nice. Then next is the text and the border. I think you could just completely remove that border and it would look better in my opinion. Then for the text, it looks like it was just put there to have text and your name. Take time with you text, and in this case some really simple font would probably look nice with maybe even some really small sub-text. Then lastly would be the effects in general. The effects I think you have on the right track. The way you have it set up, you have it set up to try to create some flow. Also, if I am correct it seems as though you have blurred some of the effects as well to try to give it depth. However, the only problem with both of those is you do not have enough effects in this tag. I love negative space, but only when it is used correctly, which is not always as easy as it sounds. A lot of the effects you have here too seem to be very pixelated which is very unattractive. Also it looks like they are random. There is no real feel to the style, it looks like just some effects stuck in there to make some effects. Especially those little speckles on the left in my opinion. Maybe try adding some c4d in there and maybe liquify them to give the tag a smooth look. Also if you want some depth, either create some dark grey effects to fill in the background or get lots of blurred effects in the background with some sharper effects in the front. Merged Post: JL Rubidox - I like this piece in a general feel to it. Not like the appeal of it so much as there are some flaws to me, but the overall concept feel to it. Meaning not so much the concept and not so much the feel to it, but like the feel of the concept. It is kinda of hard to explain so hopefully you understand what I am trying to say! I am simply loving the splatter brushes and those two lines that are going up through the tag. However, the main thing I am not to keen on is the light to dark transition. There is so much empty space on the left I think it would look better possibly if the effects did not cut off so fast, that they kinda took longer to fade away. Although, I am not 100% sure on how much better if at all better that would look. I think the other thing that seems to be really bothering me is the text. I pretty much like the font, color, and location, but it is the quality that is bugging me. The outline of the text seems to be very pixelated and that is what is totally killing the text for me, and partially the overall piece as well. The other thing while I am looking at it that I think I would probably like better too is too see more sharper areas. It seems like the majority of the tag, besides the circles, is pretty blurred. Also the blurred/sharpened areas in other aspects seem to be a bit random. I was noticing on some of the splatter parts, part was blurred and part was not. I think it would be better if it was just one way or another and not both. Also the little speckles are really just annoying me more than thinking the fit in with the piece. However, the colors of the tag I am liking. You also did a pretty decent job on the effects. They are not overdone, but they are not too minimal. It is closer to minimal than it is overdone, but not to the point where it is bad. Also that bottom border is just annoying me, along with the bar inside the piece. Merged Post: Jen! - You do realize you are only allowed one tag at a time! Loser! Hehe! But since you are my coolios buddio I shall go ahead and do both for you! But just this one time! Ok I will start with the first tag. You know that this first one I just simply LOVE! I love the whole concept to it...I mean it was just portrayed perfectly to me! I do have to ask as well, did you put the text and the paper over here mouth? Because of you did I give you even more props! Anyways now with that said I shall critique it! Hehe! I think this is a pretty good overall tag, but the effects I think are the biggest thing that caught my attention when I looked at the tag. I think the effects on the left are pretty good except for the top how it is so just straight. I think if it were oddly shaped or there were more effects right there, like lines sorta of c4ds, it would look better. But just it being straight it kinda of looks a bit odd. Also I am not too keen on how you blurred it after it got off the render. Blurring is usually only used for depth, but in this case you tried to do that with something that is in front of the render, and therefore does not work. The right is better in that aspect. However, the right is a bit messy and a tad sharp in areas. I think it it were smoothened out mainly over the render and geared more towards one direction it would look nice. I still think you have some pretty good depth, I just think it could be a tad better. Next I would have to go ahead and comment on the lighting in the tag. The lighting strength I think is pretty right on and it is good you have it on the right side. However, I think it might be a tad too strong, you could always try a lesser version, but not by too much. Then also when I look at I do not get the feeling of it being in the front, but more being in the back of the tag. With that, the light is suppose to be in front of the render, but I just get the feeling of it being behind the render. But that is no big deal because it is not something I bet a lot of people really see when they look at it. But I do think that it might look better on the left if the light to dark transition was a little better. You have the light part right next to the render, but it cuts to dark pretty fast. Ok now for the second tag. I simply love this tag because I love that band and because you used Pink which is like my favorite color. But I also dislike the tag because I think there was just a tad too much pink used in the tag. Anyways....here we go! I would not say this is as good as your last tag because there are quite a few things that I am actually not feeling all that much in the tag. I think the first is probably just all the pink. I think there was just too much used. It almost makes the tag feel a tad monotone which is never good in a tag. Also the pink over the render to me looks a tad off, but that could just be me. Next are the wireframes that I was really looking at. The wireframe next to his guitar is pretty good except for the fact it looks faded in parts, or so thin you can barely see it. I do not, however, like the wireframe that you have over the render. So I would suggest taking that out and getting a better wireframe for next to the guitar. But the rest of the effects are pretty good and definitely give the tag a sense of flow. However the left bottom corner with that liquify or whatever it is looks a little odd. Also, I think some more sharper effects or some darker spots could help create some depth in there. I also get the feel for the tag of -------bad quality. I know it probably isn't but when I look at it and look at the render I have to really look to see that it is not. I think though that might just have to do with the wireframe being of that quality. The lighting in this tag is not the best. It looks like there should be a fairly decent light source up above him yet I do not see one. I actually do not see a prime light source in this tag. It looks like you have a few small darker pink light sources, but none that really compliment the lighting on the tag. So I would say maybe try getting a better light source in the tag.
well a few people have looked at this one, but im rly not sure what else to do with it. I've been in a slump with bg's making the theme similar to the dominant color in the render. like to know ur opinion
Holy moly thats a lot of tags I need to CnC....well I better get started! Daecu - Well I am not really too fond of this tag for a lot of reasons. But I think the first and most reason that I can say that I dislike is how it is so over-contrasted. You have the contrast in the tag set so high that is just makes the tag displeasing to look at. The colors are very un-attractive like this and it just gives the overall tag a weird feel and look. Then next are the effects. I think the effects in this are just too messy and random. What I am seeing is just a bunch of effects packed into one tag to give it a very much hectic feel to the tag. This can sometimes work, but the only way it does is you need to have perfect flow and the perfect depth. I very rarely see any tags like that. So I would suggest toning them down. Then there is the render blending. Actually it almost looks like effect blending. It looks like you stuck a render in there and stuck effects over it and just feathered the area of the render out. This is not the best way to do it at all. When render blending you either want him to stand out or for him to have effects over him, but not faded. Then the text just looks bad in my opinion. It looks like there is a tear effects in it and I think the text needs to be whole and a lot more simple. Text really fancy done and the color/effects you have used very rarely look very good in tags. Then lastly, the overall tag is very bright. There needs to be a distinct light source and some darker areas with some good transition. squiffystriker - Well, I am actually gonna say that I am not feeling this one all that much. I mean I usually love smudge tags, but this one I think mainly just the way it is set up and colored. I mean the flow fits with the render, but there is just something about the overall feel I am not liking all that much. I will go ahead and start off with the basic of the smudging. I think that you did a pretty good job with the smuding in this tag, but I almost think that maybe go in with a small splatter brush and zoom in and give it some small detail in the smudging along the edges of the different colors in the smudging. I think the smudging angling in the middle of the tag is the best. When it gets higher I really think that it gets ruined due to the darker colored smudging. I think the darker looks nice I just think there is too much. Maybe if you had the light color go a little further and transition just a little slower it would look better. You could also maybe just use a slightly lighter color over there. Then also there just does not really seem to be any depth in this tag. It also just seems to come out flat. I mean I guess you could interpret some depth in this tag, but nothing that you can really see just by looking at it. So maybe try some blurred and sharpened effects or go in with the burn tool. Also, the render at the bottom just does not appeal to me with the blending job that was done. I think it could be better maybe even have it stand out more or even be a little sharper. Doctor - I am actually not liking this one all that much. Honestly, not to be mean, but it looks like a tag that would have just been made by completely looking a tutorial. If it is not, please forgive me. I guess though, that is not my place to really percieve it like that, so I will go ahead and just point out what I am seeing within the tag. I guess the first two things that I was really looking at that I will go ahead and point out are the text and the lighting. The text just seems to not fit, meaning it seems out of place. The font, the color, and the placement just do not really compliment the tag like text should do. This text just is not the right type of font for this kinda of sig. I would not just a simple font, but it is hard to find a GOOD font for this type of tag. But also, just having it in the center and it being so small just does not help it all that much. Then the lighting in this tag is just way too strong and overpowering. With lighting you have to look at three things when putting it in a tag. How strong it should be, where it should be located, and the color of the light source. In this case the placement is decent but the strength and the color are off. Then lastly are the effects. The effects just seem minimal to me and almost just looks like one big stock with a small amount of effects added to make it look like you did a lot more. This may be true and this may not. However, there is also not enough color in the tag, it is a tad monotone and also there needs to be some darker areas in the tag.
das alot of comments ^_^ thanks alot, something tells me it may be better to scrap it and try a new theme xD. thanks for the time tho appreciate it ^_^ edit: made a new sig with same render, will try to post next time ur online, i think it flows alot better
