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Need some feedback for this signature and some essential tips on improving it..
~Cyprum

thanks for the siggy cyprum it looks nice :)

Nice tbh I don't really think this one needs improvement the colors blend very well and the text stands out well 8/10.

No problem krash
and thnxx kotetsu needed to improve so to get 10/10

Okay, so it a smudge signature right?
First of all, the smudging isn't done well. Looks like you copied the render and smudged them. I would say, using brush, paint some blobs of colours and then smudge them. or, as an alternative, you can use c4ds and smudge them.
2. Improper lighting. When applying right lights and shadows, you need to do it manually. First, define a place from where light is coming. After that, according to it, use dodge and burn tool on render to enhance it, and then apply the lights on other place.

Just thats my feedback. if you need more help, mail to complanbox.

I agree with complan and also I feel that, because this is a fire theme, you need to add a bit of orange to transition from the red to yellow. 8/10

The c4d's feel like a bit much here and the lighting is off as well.
I'm not the best at smudges, I've only done a few actually, but that's just my input.

The person looks constipated, but all in all looks good.


XD XD XD

In my opinion there is something wrong , i don't see a flow I dont know if others see it but i don't.
if i remember correctly the anime has a fire powers or something like that so the color of the sig should be more redish.

I don't think the color of the signature should depend on character's powers though....

It's nice, but it could be better in the fact that you don't use auto-generated ANYTHING for signatures.

I made it myself..
i dont use any auto generating stuff..
i made it in ps. and i dont even know how to use those generators..

LOL Neither do I. XD

thats great lol actually all the generator siggys sux too much..

January 15, 2014 12:17:19pmcomplanboy Wrote:  Okay, so it a smudge signature right?
First of all, the smudging isn't done well. Looks like you copied the render and smudged them. I would say, using brush, paint some blobs of colours and then smudge them. or, as an alternative, you can use c4ds and smudge them.
2. Improper lighting. When applying right lights and shadows, you need to do it manually. First, define a place from where light is coming. After that, according to it, use dodge and burn tool on render to enhance it, and then apply the lights on other place.

Just thats my feedback. if you need more help, mail to complanbox.

I'm sorry but no no no no No No NO NO NO.

There is no one right or wrong way of smudging. Copying the render and smudging that is a very valid way of smudging and I regularly do the same myself.

I myself rather like the look of the soft smudge, although it could use some depth work. Apply the image, and run a high pass filter. You can find it under filter> others> high pass. Put it on either overlay, soft light or hard light, experiment with different opacities too. You have a great flow going as well, but there's a lot of dead unused space either side of the render. Maybe try cropping the edges off. Good job though, keep at it :)