Originally Posted by
Aesahaettr
I wouldn't categorize it as "horrible" :)
Your trying, and your listening to others suggestions, that makes any sig in my mind have a couple extra +.
The background -
Is too repetitive, I'm not sure if that was a large brush or an image to begin with, but the design is not too great.
That render is a soft anime character, it's wearing armour though so possibly a light solid background with some swift brushes added in the the direction she's facing
The render -
It looks like you've selected sections of it and lowered the opacity.
A simple way to blend is use the smudge or blur tool, on a decently small set size, first blend the edges all around the render. If you wish to have further parts of it blended continue with slightly larger sizes so you can't see the actual brush strokes of the blending.
There are a lot of other ways to do blending, it depends on the style and options you want/have.
The text -
That's more of a tech brush. An oriental or a simple slightly curved text would suit this better.
That's all for now, keep it up! ^_^
