Digital Art First tag in forever. *please move since I'm ******ed*

+1 to whoever knows who this is

Basically I went to town with some smudge brushes. Gimme your worst, KH-V.

Also, something I randomly made for my anime club:

Spoiler

Yes, it's an actual contest. The president of the anime club, who is a friend of mine and my friend John, is going to determine which of us is the cooler John. :v No cnc needed for this, just added for the lulz.

EDIT: Gaaaah, can someone move this to the main GFX board? Sorry guys.

 

Lol, Advent how did this end up here? xDD

Lmao, sorry, it's just ironic and funny. Anyhow, let's CnC. I'll do my worst.

I like the smudging. It looks nice, but it doesn't really follow a defined flow. It's just all over the place. I also don't like the color in the tag, but it's not that bad.

The tag has no lighting scheme, little depth, and the text isn't that great either. I think it could be blended better, and be better overall. The stock placement, I'm a bit iffy on, but it's okay. I suggest some blurring for the depth, some dodging and burning for added depth, a lighting scheme, and maybe some slight tweaking of the colors.

On the good side, I like the light effects you have on the right, and the smudging isn't half-bad. I've never really used smudge brushes. I guess it wouldn't hurt to try them.

 

Not a huge fan of the cinema borders :p

I like the smudging and use of your typo. The type could have been executed a little better but overall it's nice, the coloring works.

Your smudging feels a bit disorganized. The tag gets lost on the right side of the stock. Cropping it off just past the type would probably fix that. Something to keep in mind is your usage of highlights--usually when you have super bright whites and tans, you lose tons of information and it makes the whole thing look like it was brightened to 100% with a B/C adjustment layer. Try to avoid those types of highlights, instead make it a gradual movement from dark->gray->brighter gray->white, with as little white as possible. Capitalizing on your negative space adds a lot of drama, which is always fun lol

It's classy, I like the style.