You kinda mentioned it yourself. Let us first concentrate on the text. As you see yourself it is not really good what you created there but okay since you are learning. So, first tag: The text is not good. I would always use arial font or something, make it white, add a clipping mask, or make it on soft light. I would have made it smaller and put it somewhere where his arms should be. Those black two things at the outer lines. As well as the text, I am not a friend of the boarder you applied to your signature. I would just leave it, without anything. If you really want to add a border, a black one could probably go, but do not make it bolder than 3px. The colors are pretty okay you used despite of the little too high saturation in it. The smudging in the background is pretty okay but you could work more on the background, adding c4d thingies, smudging them, adding another c4d. So that you create some more depth in your signature. I hope that little contrast is from the render and you did not apply it to it. So that we can go on with the lighting. You hould have added some light source at the top right of the tag. Maybe a 200px Soft brush, maybe a rendering filter, maybe a black/white radial gradient set on soft light to improve the light source focusing on the render. And the flow is missing as well, you could use c4d effects on the arms or something. I like the little blurring effect upper his arms, it looks like he is somehow having an aura or something. well good job anyway. Second Tag: Really, you ruined it with too much color, too much contrast and a too dark atmosphere. Okay let us concentrate, as we always do, at first on the text. The text is placed pretty well although it is hard! to read. With this tag you could have added some grungy looking text. Just be sure you do not make it to big and not too distracting from the actual focal (your render). Here as well, a clipping mask would do the trick. You could alternatively add a white, really small text and put it above his throat, on soft light or something, it would do the trick as well. Let us go on. You see the render. There are some lighter spots. What do those tell you? Right, there should be a light source. And again you messed it up. You have to add a light source at the upper right corner this time, as well. Since the most back parts of the render are light and the front parts are mostly black. It would create some nice effect of depth, too. Again, you can just use a 200px soft brush with a white color. It should do the trick for you. The background is really simple. And again, well, since the render has a nice resolution you could have placed it at the background and just smudged around so that you get a nice smooooth bg. Some flow is missing as well. Here I would add it by using the smudging obviously. It is a nice effect adding flow by smudging and looks great. :> What else can I tell you, let us see... Yea, you could as well put some white hard dots around the signature (5-15px) and just add clipping masks above those and move em around. Just do not place them over the render, maybe 2 or 3 in the near of his hand or something. I think that should be all. Keep the work up :> I hope you are even reading this text haha. :>
No problem. Just keep up the work. :> I forgot to say that we have a nice tutorial section here at our forum.
