well..

[BABO!]

even after i quit graphics, i tend to make one or two from time to time..
-i made this in about 45 seconds * the first one *
-- i use GIMP, and my alias while in my GFX making days was Bakatastic.

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k193/ChibiSharingan/Signatures/aaaaa.png

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k193/ChibiSharingan/Signatures/sigimadewhenicamebackfromgfx.png

DO NOT RIP. THANKS.

edit: might make a request thread. unless all people want is MS based sigs, which i detest. but if i do make one, i'll most likely charge an in-game fee...*fame/100kmeso?* not sure yet..it all depends of the audiences opinion.

[Andy]

TRY.


wat

[BABO!]

wat

even if i say "do not rip", ignorant people would still rip them. which is why i said "try" not to. :xd:

edited OP~

[Spasm]

I think you should make a request thread.
Even though most people would ask for MS based.

[BABO!]

I think you should make a request thread.
Even though most people would ask for MS based.

i guess i'll make it so that if you want a MS themed sig, you'd have to pay/fame more.
still don't know yet.

might post some more work to see if anyone is interested. :xd:

[Rip]

This looks very nice but I am having trouble understanding what you did to the artwork.

Unless you drew them from scratch, which I would be very impressed.

[Imitazion]

The first one looks like you've blended an abract brush into the picture, then saved it.

The second one has a poorly smudged background.

[BABO!]

This looks very nice but I am having trouble understanding what you did to the artwork.

Unless you drew them from scratch, which I would be very impressed.

it's called photo manipulation.

get a stock.
add some C4D's
change the layer effects for the C4D's to blend in
change the layer of the stock around - add some sharpness and blurr the background to further increase the focals view.
copy visable change the layer color and mode to fit the colors
save


The first one looks like you've blended an abract brush into the picture, then saved it.

The second one has a poorly smudged background.

the first is a photo manip. it's very simple, and doesn't require any effort. which is why i said it took 45 seconds or so. it's not a brush, it's a C4D.

the second had a paper texture from the beginning to add a feel on the flowers from the render.

i can see people here aren't experienced with GFX. :xd:

[blitzkrieg]

casper might have been right about that ego afterall.

what's so special about those two images? what makes them different from ANY of the others made in that fashion? honestly it doesn't take someone who is "experienced with GFX" to realize that there is nothing unique here. people have been using the hell out of C4Ds for so long that it's honestly boring as shit to look at now.

not only that but maybe if you're trying to sell a service to someone you shouldn't act so condescending toward them.

[BABO!]

casper might have been right about that ego after all.

what's so special about those two images? what makes them different from ANY of the others made in that fashion? honestly it doesn't take someone who is "experienced with GFX" to realize that there is nothing unique here. people have been using the hell out of C4Ds for so long that it's honestly boring as shit to look at now.

not only that but maybe if you're trying to sell a service to someone you shouldn't act so condescending toward them.

well for starters i'm not entirely sure what you people here consider "ego" but from what www.dictionary.com says it is, i'm nowhere near it's definition.

there is nothing special from the two images, considering i'm nowhere near professional in GFX, i'm only Moderate. but if you're into art, anything you make you find special. especially if you made it yourself. now of course C4Ds would be overused. it's the most used style in sig making. now, what makes it different form any other one is the way it was made. people could use a different approach as to making a sig using a low, or high quality stock/render then going out and using a different approach to make the focal *face of the image* stand out first.
-what kind of person would make a smudge style sig with a stock like that? lol, i'd rather go for the overused style, rather than one that doesn't fit the image at all.

and i'm not selling my service. i would consider it if people were interested in having such made sigs. as i just re-started KMS and obviously poor to even put a price on something that could be done by anyone.

but let's end that here, since this thread was made to show people on the forums what i made in 45 seconds. -- oh damn, there i go being condescending. sorry.

OT: would anyone like a complementary sig?

[blitzkrieg]

saying you made something in 45 seconds isn't the condescending part. it's when you said "i can see people here aren't experienced with GFX. :xd:" that is the only statement you have made that I have an issue with. you posted something that in my opinion is of an overused style and is boring looking, then proceeded to act like you were the most experienced graphic artist on this forum. that is where I saw an ego.

[BABO!]

saying you made something in 45 seconds isn't the condescending part. it's when you said "i can see people here aren't experienced with GFX. :xd:" that is the only statement you have made that I have an issue with. you posted something that in my opinion is of an overused style and is boring looking, then proceeded to act like you were the most experienced graphic artist on this forum. that is where I saw an ego.

i completely agree on your point of view. but where mine comes in, that's another story. from viewing the threads made in this section, i can generalize that not many people are into GFX making for various reason, i suppose.

the only reason i would say that is because experienced gfx'ers would note other things like in the first sig: the C4D bubble in the bottom right corner becomes the focal itself since it's so bright. instead of what the people here said: "This looks very nice but I am having trouble understanding what you did to the artwork. Unless you drew them from scratch, which I would be very impressed."

and of course looking at C4D styled sigs is boring. do you know how hard it is to make a decent looking smudge sig? it's so stressful on the wrist!

i didn't mean to sound so egotistical, i just posted how i'd post in any graphic's community.

[blitzkrieg]

it's no problem. to be honest the post just irked me and I probably shouldn't have even commented on it.

as for the bubble being the focal point in the first image... it doesn't really do that. the layering in the middle/left directly leads you to the dude on the right. the bubble may be a prominent color but the flow of the image keeps it from being a focal point. maybe if there was something extra in the left, it might help pronounce the bottom right.

[BABO!]

as for the bubble being the focal point in the first image... it doesn't really do that. the layering in the middle/left directly leads you to the dude on the right. the bubble may be a prominent color but the flow of the image keeps it from being a focal point. maybe if there was something extra in the left, it might help pronounce the bottom right.

i was thinking a different shade of the main color and have a slight shine come out from his right shoulder - our left. and brighten his eyes.

[blitzkrieg]

cool, be sure to post it when it's done :D

[BABO!]

cool, be sure to post it when it's done :D

i'll post a similar styled sig. since i don't save my .XCF's. i'll use the same image.

edit: the B's are my way of saying it's my sig, or "Bakatastic" -- i hope you like this revised version :stress:.

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k193/ChibiSharingan/Signatures/aaaaa2.png

[Louise]

I make tags a lot. I just don't post them anywhere because I'm lazy. So here's my two cents.

The bubble C4D doesn't really look well with the background. The one before looked a lot better but was the wrong colour.

The white is far to bold, and the black text in the middle is really a distraction. I felt myself looking at that rather than at the render. Where is the focal point?

Also Grunge Tags look great without C4Ds, and grunge is one of the easiest to make with a good outcome. I do a lot of grunge LOL.

Did you use a gradient map? Or did you just colour over it with blue? Personally a few gradient maps, dimmed down to around 40% would make the blue of it looks a little less plain.

[BABO!]

I make tags a lot. I just don't post them anywhere because I'm lazy. So here's my two cents.

The bubble C4D doesn't really look well with the background. The one before looked a lot better but was the wrong colour.

The white is far to bold, and the black text in the middle is really a distraction. I felt myself looking at that rather than at the render. Where is the focal point?

Also Grunge Tags look great without C4Ds, and grunge is one of the easiest to make with a good outcome. I do a lot of grunge LOL.

Did you use a gradient map? Or did you just colour over it with blue? Personally a few gradient maps, dimmed down to around 40% would make the blue of it looks a little less plain.


yeah. the reason i put the ridiculous "B" was for a watermark type thing. i don't like leaving things i do text-less. the focal point was that part actually. :xd: the smaller one was to create a slight depth between the alien himself and the entire piece. now for the lighting/gradient maps, yeah i did about 5 layers of those, somehow i couldn't keep a right tone of blue even when i tried curving the colors around. so what i did to not make it so empty was add a white-ish bubble C4D and set it at a decently low opacity (30~65%)

tbh, i've only attempted and learned how to make C4D, smudge and abstract type sigs. i never really grew fond of grunge types. but i'll look into it.

[Louise]

They are too bold and really make your tag ugly though.

[BABO!]

They are too bold and really make your tag ugly though.

i suppose i'll have to live with that. since i don't like leaving things un-marked.

here's a smudge sig i attempted yesterday morning for a friendly 1v1 with a friend:

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k193/ChibiSharingan/Signatures/j0sephs1v1.png

take note i hate smudging..

[Louise]

Unmarked?

The big white around it is REALLY putting your work down

A simple name would do. I tag mine "tobiume" in small text, it's not hard.

[BABO!]

Unmarked?

The big white around it is REALLY putting your work down

A simple name would do. I tag mine "tobiume" in small text, it's not hard.

a bold "B" would be an eye sore as well. i might as well put the white orb on the area where it shows lighting on the render, or leave nothing there and have a render with lighting and no type of lighting there to show there is :xd:

but i get what you're trying to say. i'll make a sig using a render that has no type of lighting on itself, and try my luck there.

[Louise]

thats not "lighting on a render".

[BABO!]

thats not "lighting on a render".

http://i49.tinypic.com/2wgt935.jpg

that's the render itself without the circle and "B" on it. now tell me whether or not that render has lighting on itself. that's what i meant. why would i have a render with lighting on it's chest, if there's nothing to indicate it and make it obvious that there is?

o.o;

[Louise]

By your post you were implying the WHITE CIRCLE was a lighting source for the render, not that the render itself had lighting on it.

Either way, too bold, too big.
Stop arguing back when people are trying to give feedback.

[BABO!]

Stop arguing back when people are trying to give feedback.

i'm not arguing. and if you think this is arguing i suggest you give the internet a small break. we're both entitled to our own opinions. you're posting how you disagree with me having the orb and B there, while i say it's still not an option considering the render itself had lighting on it's chest to begin with, so i put the orb there to make it make sense..considering if i didn't put the orb in it would've looked weird having the render have lighting on it's chest when nothing in the sig itself indicated it.

[Louise]

You don't understand what I mean.

WHen creating a light source, you don't literally put a ball of light.
I learned that the hard way.

[BABO!]

You don't understand what I mean.

WHen creating a light source, you don't literally put a ball of light.
I learned that the hard way.

so what would i put there? a random C4D that completely ruins the "smudge" feel and flow? nothing, so it looks weirder than what it does with the orb there?

please, give me some input.

[Louise]

Okay I typed up a half assed post and my internet died, so here it goes again :l

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs26/f/2009/250/4/2/Prototype_Signature_Tutorial_by_DragonSpearII.jpg

I suggest following his parts about Lighting crap. The guy is on PokemonElite2000 ( this is the thread he posted (http://pokemonelite2000.com/forum/showthread.php?t=102816) )

before anyone notices and says anything, i'm tobiume :l