My Signature?

[Anet390]

I have had it for a while. How do you guys think it looks. It took me a LONG ass time to make.

 

[Imagine]

It looks simple, and quite honestly signatures which just showcase a certain sports team or athlete don't look sophisticated and good as you can't distort them while still making them appear as they are supposed to appear.

I'm not a fan of the white dots either just makes it messier, and the piece lacks depth and lighting.

I guess that if you were going for the sports look it's okay, but those really aren't hard to make. If you're serious about GFX, I suggest you look up some tutorials and use non-personal items, or computer generated items/characters as renders until you become more experienced.

 

[Anet390]

It looks simple, and quite honestly signatures which just showcase a certain sports team or athlete don't look sophisticated and good as you can't distort them while still making them appear as they are supposed to appear.

I'm not a fan of the white dots either just makes it messier, and the piece lacks depth and lighting.

I guess that if you were going for the sports look it's okay, but those really aren't hard to make. If you're serious about GFX, I suggest you look up some tutorials and use non-personal items, or computer generated items/characters as renders until you become more experienced.

Your opinion is valuable input! But, I am going to have to disagree with you on the white dots, The point of the sig is the #1 best Running back pair in the NFL (Arian Foster - Ben Tate) and the white dots help you understand "Hustle and Flow" and make the meaning pop out more. It is supposed to be sports related, and I made it look like that to represent fast movements of a runningback.

Yes, I am serious about GFX and this is really my style. Both the players I rendered myself. I actually wrote the "Hustle and Flow" over the actual font to make it cleaner (then erased the font text) and put a lot of time and dedication into this and I kind of felt offended with the "You should look up some tutorials and use non-personalized items, computer generated render" part.

 

[Imagine]

Your opinion is valuable input! But, I am going to have to disagree with you on the white dots, The point of the sig is the #1 best Running back pair in the NFL (Arian Foster - Ben Tate) and the white dots help you understand "Hustle and Flow" and make the meaning pop out more. It is supposed to be sports related, and I made it look like that to represent fast movements of a runningback.

Yes, I am serious about GFX and this is really my style. Both the players I rendered myself. I actually wrote the "Hustle and Flow" over the actual font to make it cleaner (then erased the font text) and put a lot of time and dedication into this and I kind of felt offended with the "You should look up some tutorials and use non-personalized items, computer generated render" part.

I do not mean to offend you, I am just being 100% honest and not attempting to sugarcoat anything. This is also my personal opinion, although I believe that most artists here will agree with me.

1). You used to renders, which by extension means two focal points. That's not good, because they are competing for attention. It also fills out the signature so it doesn't allow for any effects.
2). There's no point in rendering the players yourself, quite honestly, it's a waste of time. There are plenty of renders out there that could save you an hour or two, and if you find out that you did something wrong in the beginning, good luck, because you're going to have a tough time fixing it.
3). The white dots, quite honestly, at this point, do nothing except obstruct the signature. It does not help people understand the hustle and flow, although putting them on overlay or a different blending mode might make them less obvious and more subtle.
4). My last part that you were offended by wasn't meant to be offensive, but what you're currently doing resembles more of a poster that you might hang in your room and less of a tag. Practicing graphics with items such as guitars, or computer-rendered characters such as a borderland character or so will only help you understand basics of tag design, including blending and color selection. Tutorials would guide you while you do so.

Lastly, I appreciate that you put a lot of time into it, but you have to put time into every good tag you want to make.

 

[Anet390]

I do not mean to offend you, I am just being 100% honest and not attempting to sugarcoat anything. This is also my personal opinion, although I believe that most artists here will agree with me.

1). You used to renders, which by extension means two focal points. That's not good, because they are competing for attention. It also fills out the signature so it doesn't allow for any effects.
2). There's no point in rendering the players yourself, quite honestly, it's a waste of time. There are plenty of renders out there that could save you an hour or two, and if you find out that you did something wrong in the beginning, good luck, because you're going to have a tough time fixing it.
3). The white dots, quite honestly, at this point, do nothing except obstruct the signature. It does not help people understand the hustle and flow, although putting them on overlay or a different blending mode might make them less obvious and more subtle.
4). My last part that you were offended by wasn't meant to be offensive, but what you're currently doing resembles more of a poster that you might hang in your room and less of a tag. Practicing graphics with items such as guitars, or computer-rendered characters such as a borderland character or so will only help you understand basics of tag design, including blending and color selection. Tutorials would guide you while you do so.

Lastly, I appreciate that you put a lot of time into it, but you have to put time into every good tag you want to make.

Ya, i took it too seriously

#1,2,3,and 4 make sense

You're good man. I know you didn't mean to offend me. I'm just a bit of a baby when it comes to people judging me about anything

 

[stui]

my tips

1. Make the text a little more neater it looks kinda stupid out there all by itsself
2. make it so the picture doesnt have that box shape around it, get a smoke brush and put it on erase and go around the edges and it SHOULD make it look better

thats all from me

 

[Tifa]

The lay-out and text/picture sizes need improvement to me,
my sig use to have a pic similair to that size in it, but it never really flowed well.

Change Both Font Sizes, of "vouches and name shop" and make the picture actually seem like it fits with everything else, instead of standing out on it's own so much.

 

[Spraynwipe]

All the CnC above is great, so I'll simply say that your signature is wider than 650 pixels side by side unfortunately. May want to change it