Clank sig.

I'm doing a little series here.

http://imgur.com/FCY80.jpg

CNC always appreciated!

nice :)

Nice motion blur. Might want to work more on your lighting because it brings down your piece, also your lighting needs work on.

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Originally Posted by Takken

Nice motion blur. Might want to work more on your lighting because it brings down your piece, also your lighting needs work on.

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It's a fractal, not a motion blur. And I can't tell if you meant to repeat yourself or not.

either way he's right. Though all of your sigs look exactly the same at the moment. Work on your lighting and trying something new every once in a while.

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Originally Posted by Vel

either way he's right. Though all of your sigs look exactly the same at the moment. Work on your lighting and trying something new every once in a while.

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i believe thats on purpose hes making a little sort of series :P

I know from experience that when you use the same style so many times in a row it gets dull and overused, and you tend to stop using it altogether. Just giving a tip to take a break from the same thing.

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Originally Posted by Vel

I know from experience that when you use the same style so many times in a row it gets dull and overused, and you tend to stop using it altogether. Just giving a tip to take a break from the same thing.

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How exactly do you get better at a style then? It's not like I'm putting it out as my life's work claiming to have the style down and displaying it as something more than it is. I wanted to do something I've never tried before. I've progressed a lot recently, you can see in these sigs alone that I've progressed. I've learned from my mistakes. I didn't follow any tutorials for this and they didn't turn out half bad, and I take pride in that.

And something more than just "You need better lighting" would help. How so? What can I do to improve it?

See, this is why i don't post CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. People take it as INSULTS to their work or themselves. I'm not insulting you. I'm simply stating from experience, that if you make too many tags in a row using the same exact style, you're going to BORE yourself from it. Just warning you.


And as for the lighting, if you look at all of your recent works, the lighting is BORING. Top left corner, large white brush on this recent one. Top right corner on the other two, same exact thing. The light isn't intense enough, it doesn't give the sig a feeling of being really alive. Try something other than just hitting a couple of clicks with a giant white brush. Perhaps try to mess with the lighting options at Filter -> Render -> lighting effects. There are tons of different ways to get light. The giant white brush isn't doing it for this style.

Its all good fellas, Runningman, I'm sure that Vel is only trying to help, it would be wise to take his advice, and just chalk it up to a misunderstanding. good job trying new things tho I like the simplicity and colors used, you have good composition in most of your work and the effects are not whored. keep at it. what is the theme of the series btw? Toys?

Thanks for the tips. The series is kinda just cute little characters, with all different colors. I was going to do more colors but I figured that was enough.

...And I didn't take it as an insult. I just took it as not very constructive.

well if you choose to have lighting from one side to the other you havta learn how to burn and dodge to create some dept. it would highly enhance your sigs. also the lighting renders effects would help with the lighting. if your style of lightin is with brushes (like mine). what i do is i take a soft brush and choose a color in your sig. usually a very vibrant color or a more pre-dominant color that you would like to excsentuate and you take it and you brush where needed. then you change the settings to linear dodge, overlay,etc. you then change opacity of the lighting effects to what you need. really you just play around with your sigs and you find out stuff. at least thats how i learned how to do all my sigs. finally your gonna need to learn how to use your adjustment layers so that the lightin and effects correlate with what you want and blend into a final piece. also if your lookin for a more refiner look.. look into topaz and sharpenin it helps make your piece smooth

Personally Running i think you create a nice little worm out of these
do some more like these put them onto a bigger canvas and you have a cool litle wallpaper that i would be happy to use :)