Here's my new noob sig. It's probably not very good, so I would like a lot of comments and criticism to improve. Thanks!
It's actually not half bad, the smudging is pretty nice.There are couple of things I would have done differently though.It looks like your stock has a strong will to have everything flow to the left, I find the only stocks that can really have the flow going in multiple ways are $emi-symmetrical to symmetrical stocks. You did a good job at placing your lighting, but it's too obvious it's just white brushing, there are plenty of techniques for getting good well blended lighting, but since it would take too long to explain them all I would say since you used brushing I would set it to something like soft light or overlay so it's less noticeable. The text is just kind of there, but don't ask me how to improve it because I'm horrible at it.I would say until your good at it just leave it out or make it less noticeable(example:smaller font). Personally I don't really like to use borders because to me they seem to "constrain" the tag, the only time I kinda like them is when they don't encase the whole tag. Hope some of that helps.I hope it doesn't sound like I'm trashing it, just offering tips from personal experience, it's still a pretty good looking tag o.-
border=icky, remove it centred focal=worse compo in worst cases, so shift the focal also work on your composition
Thanks Ambiguity, for being really clear about what specifics were wrong with the composition. I'll try to work on what you said.
The tags not bad. You've got a couple different directions of flow though, and the text placement could be better. But not bad for starting out.
