The compo is weird with his head down there at the bottom, and more depth would be nice. Good work overall for your second though.
The cross bothers me near the text.. Just the fact that Kratos is apart of Greek Mythology is nowhere close or associated with Christianity.
There's two random lines, one of which that through his head, that really bothers me. It looks like it was the edge of a layer that you forgot to erase. Other than that, good job
As the second try very good. The lighting is nice but there is no real flow / depth. Read over some tutorials but do not use them just to know what you can make like adding depth / lighting.
Not bad for a second. Keep that up. But, (there's always a butt. lol) I will tell you a few things that will hopefully help you out a lot. ^_^ Here's what I see that looks bad: • Render placement (and thus focul point placement) is bad. His head being at the bottom creates and awkard feel in the tag. • The effect that goes in front of his face. Always keep your focul clean. Maybe put the effect behind him. ^_^ • The render is over blended. Be careful when blending a render. It's fun and so it's easy to overdo. • The Smudge/streak things in the upper left compete with the render's original flow. Always try to compliment the flow of a render. It took me a while to really be able to *see* the flow of a render. ^_^ Practice, practice and get CnC. ^_^ • Lastly, the repetitive shape on the right is not balanced out by the left side of the tag. Be careful of doing too much to just one side. ^_^ Here's what I see that looks good: • Your typography isn't awesome, but you're definitely on the right track. Given some time and practice, I think you'll be awesome with typo. • The sig needs work, but somehow it just seems to me that you have an artistic eye. Like, from seeing this, I can tell you could be really good. Something about the composition maybe? • For a second, it's pretty sweet. You just have to practice and learn the "do's and the dont's". ^_^ Keep it up mate.
Thanks for all the feedback everyone.. I agree with a few of you, especially about the border. It does stick out like a sore thumb, but I wanted to do something other than black because frankly.. black is done way too much. Personally I like the streak of light in front of his face and I like the blood effects not flowing the direction of the rest of the sig. Gives it an abstract nuance. Much thanks to Mr. Hoplite for taking time to write a nice review, very thoughtful and your suggestions definately don't go unnoticed. Thanks for the 'artistic eye' compliment. I am very much into art.
