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[Ryberg360]

Nice use of glass, colors are sweet. Used a few ideas from tuts.

8/10

[Wilson]

Really good, it matches you avvie which helps. Very good text and tree at the side. Well done. 8.5/10

[SkullSplitter]

Looks good. A bit low quality on the left side, and the border is kinda bad in my opinion (I dislike double borders).

7/10 (8.5/10 if 100% PDN).

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I know the text is bad.

[Bryan1998]

6.5/10 :shock: Too Creepy I'll Just uhh

*Drops Dead* *10 Minutes Later*

7.0/10 If It Is 100% PDN

[flip]

How can that be 100% PDN if it has a render in it? (the army guy)

@Bryan it's a cool grunge texture with nice colors, but kinda boring. Try making a border too. 7/10.

[Willmuska]

Nice sig. I really like the neon like glow of the rope thing. Also, I noticed that if you stand up and look at your monitor, you see a really faint blue glow. I think that you should make the glow a LITTLE brighter, don't over do it. Just make it bright enough so that it's a bit clearer. Also, a bit more effects would be nice. 7.7/10

[Sharp]

Render + cloud bg with stars + text? Try adding C4D's and stuff to give it flow. 5/10

[Zieon Eslador]

stars + text? Try adding C4D's and stuff to give it flow. 5/10

Like your sig?

skip me

[LJXD]

@Sharp - Very nice, good co lours and lovely flow, very bright ("My pupils are burning!") very good in general. It'd look good with a matching av. 8/10

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[0(-.-)0]

Its interesting. I don't like the sig in itself but quality and effect wise I'd say 6.5. Sorry if any personal bias slipped in there

[Zieon Eslador]

The simplicity is great, the aliasing on the shaft could use some touching up, but the sig is awesome nonetheless, especially when taken in with the quote. 7.5/10 (Fix that aliasing for an 8.5) :wink:

*Or is that not aliasing? It's really hard to tell, but either way, it looks pretty odd.

I've tried to make arrows before, but I could never get the fletchings right, how'd you do it?

[0(-.-)0]

Actually, I drew the basics with a pencil and just scanned the imaged in. Then I coloured it and did some lighting effects on PDN. The fletching is all pencil done. Makes it MUCH easier. Theoretically, that could be an interesting technique for grayscale pictures. Doing shading and details with pencil, scanning in, doing effects on PDN, printing out, doing more pencil, scanning back in, etc. etc. Hmmm.

The aliasing issue I'll try and fix. Thanks for pointing it out.

P.S. Rate Zieon Eslador next.

P.P.S. The fletching could be done with smudge, too!

[Sozo]

@Zieon Eslador: Your signature is very simple, which in my book is a good thing. However, to my tastes, it seems bland. Perhaps some changes like a better font, or something cool in the signature to focus on would be an improvement. 6.8/10

Next person, please rate this:

[csm725]

Nice. Colors are good, background text adds nice effect. The border seems a little weird, I dunno why...

Overall, very nice, good font, all adds up. 7/10

[burningrock]

Cool but i think there is something wrong on the way the flowers and the signs. The flowers should not point to me but go straight up.

[0(-.-)0]

Its one stock image and then a fairly simple light grungy cloud background. I really like it though and it has a good flow to it so I'd have to say 6/10. 7.5/10 if I liked stocks.

[flip]

Very well done. Could use some sort of shadow, though. 9/10.

[Briamoth]

I like. The colors are nice. Like the cloud effect in it. 8/10

[csm725]

Its fine, pencil tip is a little aliased compared to the sharpness of the pencils. It's nice, though. 6/10

[Ancient Shed]

7/10 I liked it because it's something unusual

I didn't like it because it's a bit too simple so 7/10

[Sozo]

Hmm, the background's kinda ok, in an abstract way. The zoom blur on the quote is distracting though. Personally, a signature based on (and complementing) your avatar would be way cool. 6/10

I've edited my last entry, and here it is, redone:

Any comments on the color? It doesn't seem quite right to me.

[007 Nab]

Interesting Sozo -- looks like one of mine (not implying you borrowed it, I realize it's a rather common theme)

I think the text effects are excellent, the shadows and highlights are just right - and I love the rotation - it gives the whole image an interesting flow.

Now as far as the color goes, I think it works. Maybe if it were hued a bit closer to gold or yellow instead of red it might look a bit happier, but what it seems to me you've got going on here is grungy anyway, so I say stick with it if that's what you want

Oh, and I hate ratings, but I'd have to say:

Perfect

Great

Needs Work

Nothing Special

Horrible

EDIT: Here's kinda what I mean, lemme know what you think:

Increased local contrast, RGB Curve adjustments (added a hint of blue to bottom right corner basically), soften portrait for stronger highlights.

[flip]

The edit you did looks good, and your current is nice. Edit is a 10/10 cuz it's awesome and current is 8/10.

[Commadant J.]

Its nice ! The colors and shapes in the background fit the render good. But i like your current (electric) sig more.

8 out of 10.

[yy10]

Nice sig, creativity FTW! You need to work on your colours, blue + orange and yellow = no good sig. However, I like those things you did, especially the the splatter. Finally, the yellow things at the side are a bit faint and I think they should be sharper. 7/10