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Discussion in 'Signatures' started by Ic3, Dec 28, 2011.

  1. Ic3

    Ic3 New Member

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    It's been awhile since I have tried to make any of these, so don't be too harsh please :D
     

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    Heyho. ;)
    I will keep myself short since I want to feedback every sig.

    First one:
    Dont know what to say to it. The background does not fit the render since it is plain and the render itself a 3D model. Those kind of white stripes around her face are kind of irritating me. What are they doing there and what did you do to her left eyebrow? Waving it around? Uhhhh... :D Stop doing that with me haha.
    The Hair is looking kind of weird at the right side, looks like you duplicated it and gave it some kind of waving filter again. It is hard to say what is the render and what is the background there.
    The border draws away too much attention from the whole going on, as well as the font. If you have a render like that looking to the left side, just put it a lil more on the right side since it will look better a lot.
    The direction of the lines in the background are just wrong. If you make them going down like this it looks crappy. They should start at the render and go in whatever direction you like but not come from somewhere out of the universe walking around like that hehe.
    Last point to mention is the missing lighting....

    Second one:
    A LOT BETTER!
    The render is put in nice, at least it fits the background and the coloring is sweet as well. The lighting is odd, I will comment more later. The border is nice. However the font is totally messed up.
    You put the render at the total right side, that should be the spot of interest. However your writing is at the very left, you see what im pointing at?
    On top of that there is too much *free space*. It is okay for that kind of signature but well... Change it the next time.
    Lets go to the lighting. Weeeey, you did okay. I mean darkness is coming to her dark side of the face but it is stopping abruptly at the very upper left ending of the signature. what is goign on there? That darkness stroke or whatever you call it should go until the very end of the signature and not be somehow erased at the very end. It looks odd, since there is no source of darkness (uhh that sounds scary) at all where it could emerge from. Hope you get what I mean here.

    Third one:
    I like it. The render is placed very nice, you put the dark side to the left where it belongs, the light side to the right where it belongs. Nice work on the lighting, however the right side could be a little more lighter.
    Again, that heart you put there with the cross through is drawing away tooooo!!! much attention. Get it out of there and just put the writing, it will look so much better.
    And try to get that bloodyred-background on the right in some kind of nice shape. Maybe only over the structure you put in the background. Like that it really looks too random at all.
    I like it though.

    Fourth one:
    Well, I think you did best here. The lighting is okay, you could just make it a little more hard. Lighten it up a lil bit on the left and darken the right side more. Erase that font at the very bottom right. Get the depth out of your writing at the right. Thats it.


    Good job on the last one. Hope it really was not too harsh haha. Keep going mate.
     
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    lol, thanks for the comments. i have played around with these things for several years, with the exception of the last year. i still don't understand the whole lighting/depth thing, hell half the time i have no clue what i'm doing. most of my sigs turn out from trial and error. as far as the text goes, I never get that crap right, nothing i do seems to ever look right. i still have fun making them and appreciate the feedback :D
     
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    How about re-editing the tags you just posted and go for some 2nd versions. That should help a lot :)
    About lighting you just have to look on the render you choose, where it is bright and where it is dark. That should do the trick in 99% of the times. When it is plain at all, you can choose, artistic freedom haha.
    Depth is hard to explain though. You want your tag to look like as if there was a background AND a foreground. You can start with just blurring and sharpening to add some 3D effects. ;)
     

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