Digital Art Probley Better Than My First One

here is a sig I worked on since about 6:00 A.M. to 7:50

I think this one is better than my first one by alot
I just made another one rate both of these on a scale of 1 through 10

me persomaly i think the Zexion one is the best

 

*Looks like some bubbles on a Sora render which isn't that good since it ruins the render itself and it looks like you didn't focus on having the render to be similar to the BG. Try making it similar to the BG so it'll work if you want to do something to the render The border could use some changes.. mostly the color. Change the border color to black or so, because usually any other colors doesn't match if the background or render itself isn't "all" colorful. The text is a bit too big for that sig, decrease the font size (the color does blend in well almost, maybe sky blue with some blending will work). Not sure what your background really is but I can only speculate: they're crystals. However, the crystals "look-alike" should be a bit more fainter, and add a new twist to it like some DNA strands or something of that nature (matches since humans really see objects that are twirly and cubicles are "wonderfully" match, of course I'm lying but just a suggestion of lies XD j/p).

*Can't see your Zexion sig.

All in all, you should keep trying. Remember, brushes makes the graphics. But filters and special tools (smudges, burn/dodge, etc.) should also be used. It'll depend largely on how you want the sig/avy to look like, however I'll give you some tips of when to uses brushes/filters/special tools:

1) The majority of times when you're making something, brushes are what gives the BG/effects. Always try to form an image in your mind, then see if you got brushes that could make something like the image you got in your mind; and if you don't go the brushes, go to google! Like I'm thinking of some mountains, so I'll just type in google "Mountain brushes for *your editing program*". Always mess with the opacity of the brushes unless you want the image to be full blown out dark or light depending on what you'll do to the layers of brushes after.
2) Filters, like grussian blur and sharpen is your buddy. So are a lot more that comes as default with your image editing program (however, there are other nice filters out on the web but it's your choice if you want to use 'em or not). Use them when making layers, play around with the layer settings like overlay, dodge, burn, soft light, etc. and mess with the layer opacity too! Try some filters on some of the layers, and you might just get what you need for that awesome swirl or trees-lookalike!
3) Special tools, like the dodge/burn will really effect the outcome of your sig/avy! For example, on a render dodging the right area can make it look blistfully horrible, but burning will make it look darker and better! So mess around with the dodge/burn to see if you can get the "umph" you need.

There are more tips and advices/suggestions but! Most comes from experimenting so ALWAYS experiment to learn! And follow tutorials (quite oftenly, this is how people learn) to learn techniques and stuff. ;) Remember, google is your friend! Use it for brushes, gradients, etc.

I am also sorry for turning this CnC into some tips/helps for you Mickey, but hope it helps.

 

I'm not using GIMP or adobe photoshop i have to wait to get that next year so I can download it on to my computer that im getting next year so for now I,m using my dads microsoft office suite 2006 but next hopfully some of my sigs will be better and the bubbles on the sora sig are the filter I used for that one called boiling water but again i am only using microsoft digital image suie 2006 not any on of the ones that anybody else uses

 

i like it but one thing you shouldve made the text smaller and blend betteer with the back round also you couldve put more colors in to make it look a lil better and used more texture other than that its pretty good

 

all come back next year when I have my own computer to download GIMP on to make better ones