Anime sig

To both of you:

When you said keep the render its original color, did you mean something like this? It was my first sig.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...SigAltered.jpg

hehe I'm just a tough critic (as the text in my signature says). I'm trying to help you so that you have a better sense of design and aesthetics so you know what looks good, what doesnt, what to do and what not to do in the future :D Don't linger on the way one signature turns out, just keep in mind what I told you for the next piece that you do (hopefully sometime youll move on from signatures/avatars and make actual pieces of art lol). I'll let you know if you improve, what you've done better and what you still need to do better ;)

edit: It looks much more interesting with color, but don't blur the edges. I'm guessing you ran across some jags during the cut job, at least around the face. Remember what I said about text and background as well

Okay thanks a lot guys for the comments. Hopefully it'll help me improve my next sig.

By the way Jack, when you said make actual pieces of art, what did you mean? Like full size images?

Yes full sized images. Also something hopefully without renders/characters. I'm talking about something you made completely yourself on a bigger scale than a signature. Like I said a signature is something that identifies you. You dont need to keep identifying yourself with different little pictures all the time. What are you identifying yourself as if you constantly make signatures but your not making any art (the kind I just described)? I dont see it as much of an artist. Its like if you were a traditional artist and you wanted to do paintings. And you spent all of your time on how to sign the corner of your painting but none of the time actually doing any painting. Not much of an artist huh. After you learn more of the ins and outs of photoshop and get better at all of this, I hope you'll start "painting" rather than "signing the painting's corner" ;)

Haha I liked how you put that. But I wouldn't know how to do anything on that large of a scale and something so drastic. Like I have just begun learning PS. I wouldn't know how to create something from scratch, especially since I suck at drawing any form of character/person.

Thats ok. I never did signatures. I started out doing things at about 500x500. Did some pictures only using filters for the first week or two. After that I decided to try out brushing. Digital painting (aka brushing) was the next phase I went through. Then I got into vectoring. Finally, I started 3d. So now I do some of all 3. Never have I done a sig (or any image) in which Ive used a render or anything that isn't a free stock photo. From my experience and watching other people progress, I've seen that the fastest track is to work on bigger canvas sizes and making things from scratch. I'm not trying to tell anybody to stop using renders or anything, so lets not get into that :D I'm just saying what I did and what seems to be to be the fastest way to get around the graphics learning curve (which I'm still moving around myself obviously). So to sum up Tobias, I think you should just work on larger scales anyway. Whether or not it would turn out the way you want. The more mistakes you make, the more things you try to fix them and hence the more tricks you learn to fix things when you come across them in the future.

Thanks ^_^ I appreciate your help. I'll start messing around with stuff, although I can't draw digital ... I'm a good artist on paper, but nothing that great on computer. Unless I scan my drawn pictures in, and use THEM as renders. Hmmm...