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Forgive my ignorance, but what are those?
Haha, thank you. That seems to be the favorite among most people
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In a nutshell,you open up a Graphic shop,they give you a stock and such,what they want on it and jazz,and you deliver.
Graphics Shops
Also I really like your tags. :3
I see. Thanks for the heads up! I may just do that
They're good but there is definitely room for improvement. I personally think your best tags are the forth and fifth ones. In the forth tag I love the lightning and in the fifth one I love the colours you've used. The pink and yellow work really well together.
The three main things you should work on now are the colours, text and backgrounds. The colours in some of your sigs are rather basic as you're using just one colour. It really makes the take quite boring, you should work with colour harmonies and such. However, I see that you've started to do that in some of the sigs towards the bottom of your post. I assume those are more recent? If so then you're heading in the right direction!
Next is the text, the texts shouldn't draw your attention away from the stock used in the tag. You should try making the text smaller and putting it closer to the stock.
As for the backgrounds, I think you should try using stocks instead of using just brushes which is I assume what you're doing? Stocks, c4ds and other things can really make your sigs more interesting.
Anyway, I hope that helps! I would love to see more of your sigs! You should definitely think about joining or making your own graphic shop. They really help you improve a lot since you're making graphics for other people.
The three main things you should work on now are the colours, text and backgrounds. The colours in some of your sigs are rather basic as you're using just one colour. It really makes the take quite boring, you should work with colour harmonies and such. However, I see that you've started to do that in some of the sigs towards the bottom of your post. I assume those are more recent? If so then you're heading in the right direction!
Next is the text, the texts shouldn't draw your attention away from the stock used in the tag. You should try making the text smaller and putting it closer to the stock.
As for the backgrounds, I think you should try using stocks instead of using just brushes which is I assume what you're doing? Stocks, c4ds and other things can really make your sigs more interesting.
Anyway, I hope that helps! I would love to see more of your sigs! You should definitely think about joining or making your own graphic shop. They really help you improve a lot since you're making graphics for other people.
Mmm..... yes, that is some sound critique you have there, and I greatly appreciate it. All of them are in order from oldest to newest, so the bottom ones are my most recent works.
Admittedly, both text and backgrounds are where I was the most indecisive. For instance, I had assumed placing the text near the render (or stock, if that's the correct term for it) would take away from it, which is why I kept distance from them. But once you put it like that, and from looking at your current sig, I see what you mean.
As for backgrounds, I always knew would be the one thing I'd have the most trouble with. Brushes are what I generally use, save for maybe the third one, which is actually an effect that I wanted to try out.
All in all, I don't yet think I'm experienced enough to join, or create a shop just yet. My current horizons for graphics are rather small, and I only really do it just for the sake of having a cool theme I can stick with (I'm notorious for changing themes a lot on Serenes Forest lol). I'm still a noob and there's much that I have to learn after all. Even so, thanks for taking the time to critique! More sigs will be coming as they do
Admittedly, both text and backgrounds are where I was the most indecisive. For instance, I had assumed placing the text near the render (or stock, if that's the correct term for it) would take away from it, which is why I kept distance from them. But once you put it like that, and from looking at your current sig, I see what you mean.
As for backgrounds, I always knew would be the one thing I'd have the most trouble with. Brushes are what I generally use, save for maybe the third one, which is actually an effect that I wanted to try out.
All in all, I don't yet think I'm experienced enough to join, or create a shop just yet. My current horizons for graphics are rather small, and I only really do it just for the sake of having a cool theme I can stick with (I'm notorious for changing themes a lot on Serenes Forest lol). I'm still a noob and there's much that I have to learn after all. Even so, thanks for taking the time to critique! More sigs will be coming as they do
For all of them, you have a good start going. I definitely would say try to incorporate some flow into them. I'm not sure if you're just starting out, but maybe looking up some beginner tutorials would benefit you immensely. You could do wonders with GIMP once you figure how to use it in such a way that benefits you most. I do hope to see more from you. You show a lot of potential. It's just a damn shame that SOTW isn't around anymore. It really helped the newbies of GFX get tons better. In either case, hope to see more stuff from you. 
Within the past few days, I managed a few more. Note that the first two were merely ones that I forgot to display before. The latter three, I took a different apporach and actually tried using.... C4Ds (What does that even stand for?) and more stocks. While they were tricky to utilize, I'd like to believe the results to be more rewarding than my previous batch.
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They certainly do look better than your previous sigs! That forth sig though, that is beautiful~ The C4Ds have really helped to make it look better. However, it looks a little messy on the left side, and I don't think the little speckles of pink really work on that side. On the right side of the render though, everything works nicely. Since it's a bit darker, the pink isn't as harsh. Instead it works with the other colours.
The text still needs a little work though. Mostly the text in the third sig. It's really bad in quality. Did you enlarge it by any chance? You really shouldn't do that because it will lose the quality. Only make things smaller while holding shift to retain the quality of images. Then there's the font, I can barely read what it says. You need a font that is legible, and some fonts don't really work when they're small as they get all compressed which makes them hard to read.
In the last sig, the flow to me is really off. I'm not very good with flow so I'll try and help the best I can but this tutorial can help you with flow and the basics. You've got the lines in the sig going in the wrong direction, they should be going from top left to bottom right to go with the stock. Even though the character's head goes with sig, the rest doesn't. The arm is going in the opposite direction to the sig. I personally would have the flow of the sig going with the arm instead. I would also sharpen the arm more than anything else in the sig to make it pop out, and make it really seem like it's in front of everything. The render seems really low in quality as well, I don't know if that's because you haven't sharpened it or anything or if it was like that anyway. Really try to avoid low quality renders as they'll make the whole sig look low in quality as well.
Anyway, you're improving so much! Your sigs look so much better with more stocks! And btw, C4Ds stands for cinema 4D which is the program they're made in.
The text still needs a little work though. Mostly the text in the third sig. It's really bad in quality. Did you enlarge it by any chance? You really shouldn't do that because it will lose the quality. Only make things smaller while holding shift to retain the quality of images. Then there's the font, I can barely read what it says. You need a font that is legible, and some fonts don't really work when they're small as they get all compressed which makes them hard to read.
In the last sig, the flow to me is really off. I'm not very good with flow so I'll try and help the best I can but this tutorial can help you with flow and the basics. You've got the lines in the sig going in the wrong direction, they should be going from top left to bottom right to go with the stock. Even though the character's head goes with sig, the rest doesn't. The arm is going in the opposite direction to the sig. I personally would have the flow of the sig going with the arm instead. I would also sharpen the arm more than anything else in the sig to make it pop out, and make it really seem like it's in front of everything. The render seems really low in quality as well, I don't know if that's because you haven't sharpened it or anything or if it was like that anyway. Really try to avoid low quality renders as they'll make the whole sig look low in quality as well.
Anyway, you're improving so much! Your sigs look so much better with more stocks! And btw, C4Ds stands for cinema 4D which is the program they're made in.
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I don't know much about tags, but number four and six are my top favorites in this new batch of tags. <3 They're beautifully stunning and flow really nicely. The sixth tag is eye candy with its vibrant green color with white lights that resembles fireworks in the background which was awesome. You've improved a lot! I rarely like green, but you made it work in this tag. As for the fourth tag, it's vibrant in color. I don't notice the black edges all that much, which is good because I think it compliments the tag smoothly without taking the spotlight from the person in the center. C: You're doing great!
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Hey, it's nice to see some new artists around here. ^__^ I don't have Gimp so I can't give you program specific advice, but I'll give you some general feedback.
To be honest, I actually prefer some of the sigs in your second batch more than your third batch. The main issue I have with your third batch is that the renders are too bright and have too much contrast. Because of this, I find that you lose some of the details in your render. Try to limit some of the effects you do to the render. Some of the renders also look blurry as if a soft light gaussian blur effect was applied. Since the renders are a focal point for your sigs, make them stick out and be sharp.
Besides that, it's good to see that you are trying to incorporate some direction and lighting to your third batch. Just try not to make the lighting so bright with large areas of white like in the Hashuni Mei one. Try to add some darker areas instead of adding just pure white. Maybe try brushing or smudging with darker colors to incorporate lighting (The Sugar Lips current sig is a pretty good example).
Also try to see if you can get some better anti-aliasing settings for the text. They seem to be choppy. I also recommend that you avoid adding black outlines to text. Try simple effects with simple fonts such as arial and times new roman. Yes i know they're boring but I generally use text with plain colors and no effects and IMO I think it works well.
Out of the sigs in your 3rd batch, I like this one the best and I think it has some good potential.
If you could try adjusting the levels of JUST the background to add some more medium and darker color tones, I'd think it'd really help. Maybe add a C4D or something to add some variation and I think it could look really good.
But ya, based on your first batch, I'm definitely seeing and improvement. Just keep on working at it ^__^.
Plus if you have any questions, feel free to PM me or something. I don't have Gimp, but i'll try my best to help.
To be honest, I actually prefer some of the sigs in your second batch more than your third batch. The main issue I have with your third batch is that the renders are too bright and have too much contrast. Because of this, I find that you lose some of the details in your render. Try to limit some of the effects you do to the render. Some of the renders also look blurry as if a soft light gaussian blur effect was applied. Since the renders are a focal point for your sigs, make them stick out and be sharp.
Besides that, it's good to see that you are trying to incorporate some direction and lighting to your third batch. Just try not to make the lighting so bright with large areas of white like in the Hashuni Mei one. Try to add some darker areas instead of adding just pure white. Maybe try brushing or smudging with darker colors to incorporate lighting (The Sugar Lips current sig is a pretty good example).
Also try to see if you can get some better anti-aliasing settings for the text. They seem to be choppy. I also recommend that you avoid adding black outlines to text. Try simple effects with simple fonts such as arial and times new roman. Yes i know they're boring but I generally use text with plain colors and no effects and IMO I think it works well.
Out of the sigs in your 3rd batch, I like this one the best and I think it has some good potential.
If you could try adjusting the levels of JUST the background to add some more medium and darker color tones, I'd think it'd really help. Maybe add a C4D or something to add some variation and I think it could look really good.
But ya, based on your first batch, I'm definitely seeing and improvement. Just keep on working at it ^__^.
Plus if you have any questions, feel free to PM me or something. I don't have Gimp, but i'll try my best to help.
Wow, this feedback is truly amzing. Thank you guys. It is truly appreciated!
I'm actually not familiar with anti-aliasing, or level adjustments so I just never bothered. Text is something I always struggled with and questioned if I even needed it to begin with. I'd like to think that each little. The majorit of what I know re derieved from using bits and pieces from several tutorials that I found on Gimptalk (which I dunno if its still active). I do know that there is still much that i'v yet to try, so I just might come to you! That is, when I'm around lol
You sir, have a good eye. Yes, I did actually Gaussian Blur/Soft Light them, but I always make sure to sharpen them around the end pro cess. But that's definitely something I will consider.
I'm actually not familiar with anti-aliasing, or level adjustments so I just never bothered. Text is something I always struggled with and questioned if I even needed it to begin with. I'd like to think that each little. The majorit of what I know re derieved from using bits and pieces from several tutorials that I found on Gimptalk (which I dunno if its still active). I do know that there is still much that i'v yet to try, so I just might come to you! That is, when I'm around lol
I host all of them on imgur. Here's the link to them
I can't get to imgur mang.
OH. Now I see what you're saying. In that case, i guess its time I moved into Deviantart or something. In a sec
AH, not DA either. My school has an incredibly stringent anti-porn filter. As DA is filled with it.... it's fine man. Do you use image codes, or do you just copy and paste? Photobucket is always a good option (it's what I use for my shop).
I once used photobucket, but after finding out that there was a bandwidth limit, I switched over to imgur. Sorry to say ]:
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