Digital Art Newbie at Sig Making! CnC please! >_<

Hey guys! So recently I started to get into Sig/Avatar/Wallpaper making XD
I started 3 or so weeks ago and I could really use some CnC >_< Thanks!!!

 

You're making very good progress. There actually look quite nice, and you have a surprisingly good grasp of text placement as well. I particularly like the first two; they're fairly simple, but they look fantastic. Keep it up! Maybe try your hand at a more advanced tutorial if you're feeling up to it.

 

I want to give you CnC but you are way out of my league already.

The only thing that I can say could use improvement is the bleach sig. The way the dust cloud moves doesn't do much for me. If you can manage I think it would look much better if you had the dust only move in one direction, but I know that can be tricky to make a proper loop. Failing that there is still a bit of a jump in the loop as the movement changes direction from left to right in frames 8, 9, and 10. And I have no idea how you would pull off this fix, but the lighting between the dust cloud and Ichigo himself doesn't match (lighting on Ichigo is clearly coming from the right, but on the dust clouds it seems to be coming from near the POV).



Out of curiosity what do the ranks mean? Is that the order you made them in or something like that?

 

@Llave: Thank's for all the compliments! >_< I'll work even harder! :D
@ Advent: Thanks! Do you know where I can find the more advanced tutorials?
@Mixt: haha I tried to make the dust go 1 direction, but I couldn't find a efficient way to do so >_<. About the Ranks... I'm actually doing a Top 20 countdown of my favorite characters on my webpage so that's why it's there XD

 

WOW!!!! I REALLY LIKE THESE, it would be cool if you could teach ME a thing or two because I could use the extra help with improving my graphics because some of the only tutorials on here I had interests in are for gimp and I use PS CS5 so yeah, anyway on to the cnc, the lighting in the second graphic is a little too bright to me it kinda distracted me from the rest of the image, however I really liked the other two they were very well done for being new to graphic making (assuming that's the case here) I really like the colored borders around the text I really don't know how you did that thus I really like the black rock shooter stocks you chose they are really awesome looking, to conclude this I only found one problem with the second graphic the other 2 look amazing, great work, keep it up.^ ^


edit: just out of curiosity what art program did you make these in?

 

Not bad, but each of these has something that could be cleaned.

Firstly, you should never use straight black unless you want a widescreen border on the top and bottom. Always use something slightly lighter like #050505.

The image and the brushes used are a little too sharp and they do not blend with each other. You can clearly see a rough edge all of the way around the render and those blue ribbon-like lines crossing everywhere. The brushes might be designed that way, but the render should never be so obviously pasted onto your signature. You should not see those in a high quality signature, so I suggest working on it in future pieces.

The text placement is good but it stands out too much and I cannot determine a focal point because everything is conflicting for my attention. Never use straight black, like I said, and if you want some text to catch the eye without becoming the focus of the image then you should lower the opacity by a few percent to make the render stand out more than the text does.

I like this one but personally recommend getting rid of the border and making it a nice clean image. My suggestions about the text apply here as well.

This is a good example of where a widescreen border is effective, but it ceases to look like widescreening if you put text in the border area. All of the other corners are black, so the one corner with some not so great text makes your effort look a bit ugly.

All that you had to do make the dust go one way was make an image that was twice as wide as this one, make it full of dust, and then extend the image to double that width again and put it next to itself. After that, you blend the left side of the image into the side of the image so that it flows seamlessly. Like so.

Image that this is your image.

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Now you make a new image that is double the width of that image, like this.

[---][---]

Or

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Now you fill this with dust and double it again, pasting the image next to itself. If you want the dust to flow to the left, then you put the second copy to the right of your original. Like so.

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Or

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Now you blend the middle so that it flows to the left, and divide it in half again.

<------] (First Half) <------] (Second Half)
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Now you divide each of these in half as well, giving you four parts to work with.

<--- (First Half Part 1) ---] (First Half Part 2)

<--- (Second Half Part 1) ---] (Second Half Part 2)​

Take First Half Part 2 and put it in front of Second Half Part 1, accordingly.

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This creates a closed loop, and if you keep making it, then you can have it run indefinitely. See what I mean.

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Just move it as you see fit for each frame until it gets back into the same position you started with, and it will loop perfectly with everything moving to the left.

 

I tired to do what you told me to do but It didn't work out so well :S

@ LordVoldemort: I use Photoshop :P

 

Then you must not have done it correctly. Ah well. It is just image looping theory.

 

I think these are lovely! They are very simple but work really well!

My complaints are;
Some of the images seem a bit blurry, so try using a sharper render or sharpen the image yourself.

In the first image, there is that one blue line than passes over the render and stretches out to both sides, I personally think that looks a little strange and maybe a little out of place. IMO I think it would look nicer behind the render but that's just how I make sigs and I can see you were probably going for what you got.

And finally the dust on the Bleach sig doesn't really appeal to me, but again, that's just what I think.

Overall these are very good, keep up the brilliant work!

 

looks nice the black rock shotter one is the best in my oppion,i liked the ichigo one, but i dont think you should have done a reverse gif like this

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you should have made it look continuous

like this

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