Raptor_101's Showcase 6/20/12: Solcursion Logo/Banner

[Raptor_101]

This is where I'll post all of my sigs., wallpapers, aircraft designs, and other stuff at. You'll notice I'm a prolific sig. maker that is still improving. 100% PDN.

Newest work(s):

Signatures and avatars:

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(Sotw sig. The theme was weapons as you can tell.)

(Edited version for lighter forums)

(I actually used the smudge tool for the first time on this one.)

Edited the V-wing sig a bit. Mainly darkened.

(This one is better on a dark forum)

(This one I did a while back when I was still just looking here at tutorials. It's a mixture of the Pyro sig. and another one which I can't remember the name of.)

Aircraft Designs:

(Since I love designing aircraft, the ones I make on the computer will go here.)

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Unnamed Aircraft:

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HAIR-2A Swift Tiger Hypersonic concept:

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VTOL UCAV Concept:

http://i330.photobuc...CAVDesign-1.png

GF-44A Phantom:

http://i330.photobuc...4APhantom-1.png

GF-44N Night Phantom:

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(There's a typo on this one. It's 8 missiles instead of 10.)

http://i330.photobuc...understrike.png

Wallpapers:

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(Another photo manipulation.)

http://i330.photobuc...almacemanip.png

(This one is a photo-manip)

http://i330.photobuc...m/BaldEagle.png

http://i330.photobuc...m/magnetic2.png

http://i330.photobuc...dom/d3sk709.png

http://i330.photobuc...andom/f22-1.png

Large/Assorted works:

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(Just for a friends forum)

WIP or unfinished sigs.:

(I have no clue what else I can do on these.)

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If any of you want me to make a tutorial on anything please ask.

Edited June 20, 2012 by Raptor_101

[Goonfella]

Wow ! There`s some great stuff there. I love the Raptor wallpaper.

This is one gallery to keep an eye on. Keep it up. :wink:

[Raptor_101]

Hey thanks. I messed up on that wallpaper. I may redo it if I can find the original file.

[Terminal_Velocity]

I like the first large image under large/assorted images. Where did you get the font?

[Lance McKnight]

I am glad to see somebody in here that loves aircraft. As a personal preference, my favorite fighter jet of choice would be the F-22 Raptor. In fact, I had a quite collection of books on aircraft of the world, but I got rid of them.

Now for some critiques....your space themed sig looks very good, but I could see where you tried to erase a portion of the cloud. Try to not make it so obvious. Your bald eagle photo manipulation looks good (and bald eagle is my favorite bird of all time). Your aircraft design looks good. It makes me wonder if you tried to copy an existing plane or something you created yourself?

I agree with Goon, this is one gallery to keep an eye on, and try to move beyond sig. It seem too many folks in this forum is too focused on sigs.

[oma]

great stuff in your gallery I like the aircraft section the best. That is very different from what others are doing.

actually everything look wonderful. I'll be checking back often to see how you progress as you are off to a very fine start already.

ciao

OMA

[Raptor_101]

Hey thanks all. Terminal Velocity I'm not sure exactly where I got the font, but I bet you can check at dafont.com for the Evanescent font I used.

Storm.Shadow: The F-22 is one of my most favorite aircraft (lol hence my username). I have a few books on aircraft and they include the Raptor.

Yeah the space sig. didn't come out unfortunately. I should have feathered the area more. I had cut it out from overlaying two stock cloud pics. and I rotated it to conform a little with the planet and I didn't notice it looking like that even though it was blatantly obvious. The Bald Eagle is my favorite bird and animal. What aircraft design are you talking about? The LiB-32 was both inspired by an intake design I thought up a while back (hence the large area in the front curving back to the engine's nozzle.) and a little from the MiG-25 Foxbat interceptor both with it's large engine and the wide body.

Thank you OMA. I don't know if there are many people here that like jets, but designing aircraft is something I want to pursue so that is why I've done drawings on the computer. (Actually most of my drawings are on paper. I have tons too.)

[HELEN]

I haven't been ignoring your gallery, my computer is working really slow. :wink: I want to say that your work is beyond "good;" it's GREAT. I don't mind the aircraft you're drawing in PDN at all; I think it's cool. 8)

[Sharp]

That first sig is nice, good way to replicate PS-style sigs

[Raptor_101]

HELEN: Thank you very much. It's easy to draw things in PDN i've learned. I'm not sure if it's easier than PS, but it sure is simple.

Sharp: Thanks. I did no brushing if you're wondering.

[Raptor_101]

Ok I edited that sig. Maybe not up to everyone's expectation, but oh well.

[KillerK]

Love them all

Whats that brush you use to do the little blue and black splatters towards the bottom of the image?

[Raptor_101]

KillerK: Just the cloud plugin being edited with the Curves+ plugin.

I did a vertical tag for once and for the first time there is actual smudging going on.

[Raptor_101]

I have to say the wallpaper turned out nice. Just little things I could have done to make it better, but oh well.

Comments on anything anyone?

[Raptor_101]

Definitely not my best sig. I made it for a Sotw in my small amount of spare time this past week.

[piratemonkeyfromkong]

[Raptor_101]

A photo manip. of a pic. from the new Star Trek movie.

Yeah the stock was a jpg so I couldn't get around the jpg artifacts ruining it a bit, but otherwise I like it still.

[flip]

Your stuff is awesome. I love how you use different fill patterns... :shock:

[Raptor_101]

Sorry I have to ask. Fill paterns? Thanks otherwise. I did a new aircraft design today that is based off of a design seen in Terminator 3 Rise of the Machines. It's still a WIP, but it's getting closer to completion.

[Raptor_101]

I finished up the aircraft design today and I'd like to see some more C&C for my works since I've updated it often.

[Goonfella]

I think the line drawings of the aircraft designs are superb! The new concept vehicle is excellent. Keep it up. :wink:

[Raptor_101]

Thanks Goonfella. I'm planning on doing another, maybe starting today. I'm basically revisiting drawings I did and I'm doing them on the comp. and making them better.

[Lance McKnight]

Good work there, Raptor! That looks awesome. One thing I would change is the image size. The rule states that the images must be 800 x 600 pixels. You can link to a larger image.

[Raptor_101]

New Sotw sig. I did. the theme was aviation so it wasn't too hard. The only thing though I couldn't really fix was the render since I downsized it and it caused it to get a little pixelated.

[Raptor_101]

Alrighty. I made a new one today. I went for the Star Trek log look, but with my own little differences put in there. Here's the original:

The edited one is in the first post.

(Edit: You can definitely see why it's meant for dark colored forums. Some of the glows can't show up on the one in this post and I guess one of the layers is showing that is not meant to be showing.)