Right. Messing with smudging and slight effects... still working on how to make good map coloring (except none are on this) so here ya go: CnC?
I'm not an expert on sigs, but I have to say this is really good. The background goes nice with the render, though it is a teeny bit hard to see him if I look at it a little closer. Also, the text should be a little bigger, and I think that it would look better if the font stood out a little more in the sig.
I have to disagree with this dude up above me. Smudging is good but the render should be blended into the smudges. He should be visibaly smudged. Also, the font is not good. The text should also be closer or no text at all. The border...top part is good. It'd look better if the bottom was similar.
Good job! The smudging did the trick but the picture stood out too much. When smudging, you should smudge the picture along with the background as if he's fading or being created from smudges around him. It's as if he is being made by the smudges like god. Overall, you did a fine job today soldier. XD.
I get what you mean. I didn't think about having the stock smudged into the background... =/ The text I'm not good at. I never know what's good and what's not. he border, I had thought about the same thing, but when I finished it was late at night and I needed to go to bed so I just left it.