Soul Calibur IV - Hilde and Xianghua

[ZonariAn]

So using the same tutorial for both, I came up with two different style sigs.

Hilde






Xianghua

[Shadow379]

Hmm.. I think maybe that the sig needs to have less of a contrast cos it cuts my eyes a bit but its a good job still. I think you should clip mask or something on negative spaces of the sig. I love the smudging, it's awesome.

Edit: Oh, and ease up on those c4ds, cos it looks abit messy with it.

[ZonariAn]

Thanks alot! The Xianghua sig is pretty c4d heavy , I could probably erase some of the pink bubbles to ease up on it, but i really like how floaty and pretty they make her look. Also, the chinese characters are her actual name, in chinese.

So no one else in this place has any comments?

[CloudyCloud]

its a lil messy :/ and the top one needs some deth imo but really good sigs maybe make the bottom one a little smaller tho xD

[ZonariAn]

Why should the bottom one be smaller?

And as for the depth do you have any suggestions on how to actually achieve this?

And no offense, really, but can I get some of the more experienced people on this website to critique my work? And maybe give me some detailed tips on how to improve?

I try really hard to get my work noticed on here. What am I doing wrong?

[Fuzer]

Easy ways to get depth is to put a black to white gradient map set on soft light, and the opacity lowered, or to use the curves adjustment layer.