you need more effects on the first one and a light source and the second one needs to be blended in better keep checking tuts
there o.k the first one looks plain the second one needs to be blended in better also the second one could use some text
Blendage, blendage, blendage. Keep workin' on it. You're doing good, just keep practicing. You'll learn a lot from tuts then you can make the techniques your own. Keep at it. ^_^