Digital Art I stapled my fingers together

i think the thing in her hand is too bright and there is too many crumbs or something falling, i think.

 

The background is certainly off to a nice start, but it's not even close to being done in my opinion. The colors are a bit too desaturated for my tastes; bring up the blues/greens, please. Stock needs to be sharpened a bit. Find some FG effects that look good in here, too. You have a clipping mask or two, and they look fine, but you need much more than that. Right now you're half finishing your sigs.

 

10 bucks says thats the only real CnC I ever get.

BTW, the sharpening thing. Ya, if I do, it gets over sharpened, so I couldn't do alot with that.

Please elaborate by other FG effects.

 

Show us the original pic, I can't actually tell what you've done.

Honestly looks like you added a few very small black and white splatters(a few clipping masks), then a nice black border.

 

Play around, browse some tutorials. It's your sig, I'm not telling you what to do to it. Be creative. And you can surely lower how much you're sharpening it by. I'm assuming you're using Photoshop, so either make a new layer, apply image, and go to Filters > Enhance > Smart Sharpen, or Sharpen it regularly and lower the opacity of the apply image layer.

 

Um...lol no. It was a render.

http://planetrenders.net/renders/displayimage.php?pos=-39131

Forgot to mention I added the light and the white smudges are just from clouds. The city was practically black when I found it.

 

Then you've done a very good job so far. To me it seems like you need more of a contrast between color, dark and light, as well as more foreground affects, even if the foreground affects are massive black lines in the corners or something like that. It looks pretty, but you need to work on composition.

One thing I noticed about the sig is that it lacks a MAJOR focal, because you've made 2 focal points by adding the lighting to her right arm, it draws attention away from the original render focal, which is the blast on her left arm.

Never use a black border unless there's black in the sig, which there isn't. This relates to a much needed increase in contrast.

If you were a bit braver, you could use the blur and sharpen tools to make depth, but you said you can't, so don't try, you'd probably fuck up a decent sig.

 

I owe someone a good $10.