Two of my first signatures.

[Corwyn]

CnC please.

[Aether]

It's obvious you have the right idea, positioning is good and there's attempts at lighting. The main thing you should worry about in my opinion is blending, at the moment it's mainly a render pasted on a background. If I'm not mistaken I see smudging on the second one, try to use it to blend in the render to try and make it a whole. Don't overdo your lighting, try to reduce the opacity of it or use the blending options of the layer. You can also use the dodge and burn tools to try and create lighting, this works quite well but on anime renders it can be awkward. I hope this helps a bit, if you'd like I can also link you a great tutorial about all the basics.

[Corwyn]

I would appreciate you linking me to a tutorial on the basics.
Thanks a lot, for the advice.

[Aether]

http://senthrax.deviantart.com/gallery/#/dwrqoq
There you go, my favourite tutorial.

[Slave]

Aether said everything I was going to

Welcome to the void Crowyn, Happy to see a new name and some new art come up on the board

Another good way to blend is to lightly erase parts of your focal.

You've got good form and thats a super great start

P.s into Anime ? click my gift to the community in my signature and feel free to help yourself to some of my renders

KIU your on the right path

[draghen]

I like the style, the first signature you gave him a lot about light, we must be careful with the highlights are effective, but .. if we move to a large end does not look good esthetically, you did it right the second point of light. but the font is ugly, and is not working .. brother is going well so