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May 29th, 2011, 02:48 PM
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May 29th, 2011, 04:00 PM
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May 30th, 2011, 09:24 PM
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While I agree you are pushing the contrast in your newer pieces, I feel it has been to general success. For example, /skeletal1.png has high contrast, but it only complements the effects and composition of the tag. As for where your concepts are going. I think all of the ideas (or how I interperate these pieces) for these tags are really cool, and I think you should keep making art that expresses your true thought. DONT FILTER THE GENIUS! Ahaha, this stuff is gold. Honestly, I don't know how you come up with halve of these sick tag concepts. Very cool stuff moments. I'm planning to edit this post later to give you what I think of every tag, but for now: 'I APROVE!'
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June 15th, 2011, 03:09 PM
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Thanks for the comments.
Anyways, nothing special, same old stuff gav's gonna hate this  until I can find new rhythm and motivation to try some really new things.  It's sort of fashion magazine-esque perhaps?
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June 15th, 2011, 05:46 PM
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June 16th, 2011, 12:30 PM
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June 25th, 2011, 05:24 AM
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Photomanipulation large piece. Yes it's dark and gloomy, but I guess it suits the concept which I actually planned out in my mind before hand which I don't normally do.
malformed.png Link because it is pretty big.
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July 4th, 2011, 06:57 AM
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Nothing really special, trying to move away from usual sort of style, back to old school type pieces as well as some icons, cause I haven't really done any in ages!
  
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July 10th, 2011, 01:08 PM
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Quadriple post AGOGO!
  Both made for battles, although the first is significantly less serious than the second.  Because we all love some completely messed up stuff. :D
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July 23rd, 2011, 05:23 AM
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'Cause we all have a bit of Potter obsession at the moment! Give me comments please, I'm not too confident with my icons, decided to finally churn through heaps and try improve. So yeah, any comments. Plus I've already like quintuple posted...
            Last edited by moments.; July 23rd, 2011 at 06:09 AM.
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July 28th, 2011, 11:46 AM
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Sestuple posts are something else. Something magical I can assure you.
Seriously though, someone say anything?   Just liked the stock, I'll admit I didn't do all too much besides adjustments, but I do like the stock, it's so peaceful yet restless /philosopher. The next bunch are requests from my shop!    
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July 28th, 2011, 03:41 PM
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July 29th, 2011, 07:52 AM
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I'd show you the original for the Padfoot stock, but I don't have it online anywhere, and unless you really wanted to see it, I can't really be bothered uploading a copy of it. Quote:
As for the text, understood, text is definitely a tricky aspect of making tags, but also because I can appreciate that I tastes and things are radically different in everybody, so you don't need to "shut your mouth."  But yeah, thanks a lot!
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August 2nd, 2011, 05:44 AM
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August 2nd, 2011, 11:08 AM
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Aight studs, time for some icon critique.
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Let's pretend these are numbered from left to right beginning with one, through to nine. Anyway, you're getting better with icons, I see you've actually been snatching the methods of my technique in some of these, which include the circular gradient. If it helps, I usually use a medium brown on exclusion, I think, and at times a grey, depending on the icon. At any rate, you've got some critical errors in your icons. Let me start out by saying that you can't just use the same style with every icon. Icons number 1 to 3, they should never have be worked on in this style, they're too contrasted, too dull, and too saturated. The first two are nice stocks, but don't be afraid to use a nice, clean high quality edit. Icons are mostly about colour and bringing out the focal point. The circular gradient helps do that for some icons, but to be honest, for some icons you need to avoid the gloomy style. I advise you to try being original with colour, on some of your icons, without going dark, if you look at some of my brighter work you'll know what I mean. At ant rate, you can make an amazing icon with 4 adjustment layers. If you concentrate on colour. Then sharpen your focal, blur the background, and seriously keep the focal in the forefront. An example of where I like your colour is number 5, Emma Watson, I love what you did with the colour, but I think you killed the quality of the icon by adding extra effects to give it that washed out style. I think you know what I'm getting at, you need to avoid it sometimes. I recommend developing more than one technique. So that you can apply it to the necessary stock and work from there each time. I'm not actually drawn to any of these, I think they're all a little to washed out. The one I like most however, is the one you're using as your avatar. But I still think it's a little monotone. This is a very hard style to pull off, because you tend to concentrate a little too much on nailing the style that you forget about your stock. Never forget how important your stock is moom. I'm going to go and just say that you should apply the above advice to all the icons above. I'd be specific, but the issue is a general thing. Tone down how heavy the effects are, try not to think about the technique too much, and concentrate on retaining the quality of the stock. Anyway, you've made some more since then so let's take a look. Spoiler:
Again, one through to eight. First icon is over saturated, I'm not a fan of the colours, again it's a little too dull. The next is better actually, it retains most of the quality. The next two work in the style, but they're made for it really, still though, work on emphasizing your focals more. As for the bottom four, I actually like these a lot more. Due to the colour more than anything. I think you've done well on that here. But believe me, if you could apply this sort of class into colour without reducing the quality of the stock, you'd make amazing icons. I'd go through your tags, but I think icon critique is something to concentrate on more right now. I also dislike critiquing request tags because they're usually ~forced~ art if you know what I mean. But as far as they're going, you're getting a lot better with tags. But dude, you really gotta stop blowing effects out your ass ;]
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August 4th, 2011, 03:44 AM
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August 6th, 2011, 04:29 PM
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August 12th, 2011, 01:27 PM
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Thanks ye all for the comments! :D
Anyways, few updates, mostly requests again!     Started that a while ago and never really wrapped it up... Was going for sort of album cover type thing to begin with, then I sorta took the piss a bit with the text cause I'm sah funny. [/brick'd]
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August 19th, 2011, 09:25 AM
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It's been a week, and I've trying to do more old school stuff and get away from my usual style and whatnot, going back to more taggy tags. :D
  (colours are weird, leave me alone I couldn't get them perfect...)  Made for Sydian cause of birthday and whatnot! :D
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August 19th, 2011, 02:48 PM
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Recently, I've not been the biggest fan of your work. Some of it is pretty cool, a lot of it is kind of, counter productive, in the sense that you've done so much better and you've forgotten some of the fundamentals. At any rate, let's just get into the CnC.
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The style is consistent, but the focal is dead. Reason being is that you have three points of attraction, meaning you've created a nice little empty triangle that now poses as your focal point. What I mean is that you have three focal points, one being the text on "super sayin", one being the bird and the last being the effects coming from the trumpet. I'm sure your focal had intended to be something else, but look at your background, you can't put effects like these on top of something like paper texture if you don't want them to distract from what the eye should be led to. And there's 3 places like this, the ones I mentioned. What I would have liked was if the text was closer to the focal, the head, without as much text, and have the bird moved closer also, then to fill out the tag you could have gone with some pen tooling or shapes. But aside from that, I like the colours in this quite a lot, and you sure did something original, but it's the lack of a strong focal point, or perhaps the addition of too many focal points, is what bothers me most about this tag. With some work, it could look pretty awesome. Spoiler:
Dislike the background, like the text and the shape, and the concept, but it's all over the place this tag. Other than the speech bubble and a little of the effects on the shoulder, there's no yellow. So it doesn't make a great deal of sense to me. The text has little relevance to the focal point. The background is in a complete contrast with what we see above it. You have a playful attempt at a concept here with the stock and the text, which is pretty cool, but you have a dull texture in the background which doesn't really go with the tag at all. The effects on the shoulder look a little rough and low quality in all honesty, and just seem half hearted. I honestly think that if you changed the background here and made it relate to the text a bit more you could be looking at a better and more consistent tag. But it needs work overall, colour needs some more adjustments also, it doesn't blend very well. Spoiler:
This is pretty awesome. I much prefer this one to your other tags of late. It's a little messy in places and lacks a little depth, but it's simplicity. What I would have liked to have seen other than some depth would be a bit of colour adjustments again. The birds are also over light, I would have liked a stock with a bit more detail to go over her. This one would look pretty nice with some text, the font you used on your "bon" tag, would be suiting I think. I forget what font that was, let me know when you read this haha. But the effects are pretty good, and I like what you've done with the face. Just tone down the lighting on the skin overall there and you'll be looking at a better tag. Spoiler:
Fairly simple but effective concept. I like what you've done with the colours especially, the triangles and the clipping mask work to good effect. The text is a little hard to read in all honesty, and that's my main beef with this large tag. It could possibly do with a bit more work, a few more additions, but I like it the way it is. Spoiler:
I like everything about this except for the stock. Giving the fact that you probably did this as a request I'll forgive you. The stock is pretty low quality and it doesn't suit the effects and textures very well both due to the quality difference but also due to the fact that it's 2D, with a 3D background. So the styles clash. The text is iffy too, I don't much like it being so far away from the stock. I would actually consider taking out that stock and replacing it with another, then shifting the text over to the left, then adding in some space stock for some orby effects. Spoiler:
I don't have much to say about this one, it's pretty awesome in all honesty. I would give out about styles clashing here but the effects look 3D so it gets away with it. Colours could do with some work, I agree, to be honest, try a hue shift and a change in saturation and you'll probably get a good effect. But I like this, the text is done nicely too, so good work. Spoiler:
Very busy. I like the flow, but I would have liked to see more of Petill, I think it got lost in the effects a bit too much and it would have been better to have it stand out a bit more. I honestly think this would have been a lot better if it stood out that bit more and didn't get so lost in the effects. But some good flow here. I think the colours could do some with some work, they're a little murky, but I like the effects overall. Eh, some good points, some bad points, but I think tag requests don't always work well but I commend you for taking them. And I await CT coming in to "disaggreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"
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Last edited by Abnegation; August 19th, 2011 at 02:56 PM. Reason: Your double post has been automatically merged.
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