Where next

I've made this so far but im not that good so im asking you what do I do next http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z.../wherenext.jpg
see I look at other sigs
e.g. http://img358.imageshack.us/img358/3557/waterqd0.png
Credit to Nightfire.
and I just dont know what to do. Just look at it his is mad. I've been looking at mine for a bout 20 mins and I can't think of a single thing to do. Do I add some thing ? Do I change something ? Do I make some thing compltely different ?
I dont want mine exactly like nightfire's plus it would take a lot more work just anyone got any sujjestions of what to do next ?

P.S. If this is in the wrong place can you tell me where to put it or could an admin move it

Think of a way you can blend the render into the background.

Well Nightfire has pretty unique style which I've not yet been able to come close to duplicating, so I'd recommend trying some of daemon's tuts on this site for a good introduction into blending your renders into your backgrounds and using some cool effects.

well first of all, there is no "okay, now you need to learn -this- to get one step closer to nightfire's sig." he's been making sigs for as long as I've known and before then too - it just takes experience. one thing you do need to know that it looks like nightfire did, is that apply image/splatter brush/clipping mask thing but that only looks good if you know what you're doing. i'm sure there's a tutorial on it somewhere, i'll find it for you.

I recently tried doin the same thing lol, I wanna make sigs liek nightfire as well. Basically the only way i come a tad bit close is by adding a couple cliping masks splatter brushes, a tad bit of smudging in teh BG and some otehr stuff. but pretty much everything Jsoosiah suggested.

ok thx ill give it a go

i too loves nigtfires sig's, but its not just something you "Just" do. I have seen some og nightfires beginning sigs they werent awsome either, keep practise try new things and it will come to you as it came to me:) Good luck

I did a bit more on mine I added bit of text did some blurring and splattering and thing like that here's what I got.
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z...herenext-1.jpg
Btw I never really said I wanted mine to look like nightfire's I was just asking what can I do to mine cos when I start a sig I get a render put it in play around with it some effects lighting and so on but with this one I just got to a point where I couldn't think of anything else to do with out going into gradient maps (which I normally do last). I got the answer of jsoosiah.
So ive splatter blured and heres what I got.

Bit too dark. Lighten up the render just a tad.