Digital Art My Skillz. >_>

I made nine different variations on a render I found on Yahoo. I already entered one of these in the SotW contest, but I made these other ones anyway. If you'd like, go to the SotW thread to see the one I entered. (I forgot which one it was...)

EDIT: In case you might not know, the character on the side is KAITO, a Vocaloid. I'm in love with him.

The first one I made has black text for the top layer.


This one has no text, no effects on the top layer fractals, and has no border.


Also has no text, but the top fractals drop shadow.


For this one, the top layer isn't fractals, instead being stars.


This one has both fractals and stars as the top layer. To the stars, I added a gradient and the fractals are dropping shadow.


This is the first one I made, it has no text, no stars, and the top layer of fractals is dropping shadow and using the satin effect. It also has a thin border around it.


The same as the one above, only with text.


The same as the one above, only with a thicker border.

 

Pretty epic.
My favorite is the first one you made, actually. The shadow makes it more interesting.

 

It's not too bad. Some color variation would help it though.

 

I like where this is going, I just think you should focus on getting the focal into the main view instead of the C4D's and the Fractals.

 

I'm sorry Risseh, I don't quite understand your fanceh shmanceh Photoshop talk. Could you please dumb it down to my level, please? T_T

And the text on the sig? should I just be rid of it?

 

What Rissy is trying to say is to make your render stand out more than the patterns you have used ontop of it. Try using the blur tool. It might help in this situation.

 

I like them, I do think you need to make the render dtand out a bit more, like use the fainter lines of the signature to draw your eye to Kaito. I do really like the colours in it and the fractals do fit in I also think it looks better without the text as it seems quite large for my liking. It's a good quality render as well which is also good ^^

 

Thanks you guys! I knew I could count on you. ZI, another board, wasn't very supportive. They're a very critical people.

I'll keep these things in mind for when I'm working on it again. (:

 

That may stem from the low skill cap here haha. Not a bad place to go for beginning graphic artists.
Just stay away from KHI.