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Pandamore May 20th, 2010 11:57 AM

^I really like the realistic one :3 The cell shaded one doesn't really fit with the backround, kinda out of place.

1st// 9.5
2nd// 7


PureGoober May 23rd, 2010 5:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pandamore (Post 5815361)
^I really like the realistic one :3 The cell shaded one doesn't really fit with the backround, kinda out of place.

1st// 9.5
2nd// 7


I like them alot.
They seem to pop out at you.
The designs are great.
Very semetrical.

http://imgur.com/d10Rb.png http://imgur.com/NtPvz.png

Serene Grace May 23rd, 2010 8:25 AM

You designs are a bit plain - I suggest you start using more advanced effects such as C4D's, smudging and so on. Search some tutorials on deviantART and you can learn more about how to use and implement these techniques. I do like the way you placed the font; and the way you made it a bubbly style.

I haven't made any signatures for a while - probably about six months now, but I decided to start again today. Why don't you guys tell me where to improve; and be as harsh as possible so I can improve.

http://i47.*.com/qs2z28.png

Little Brother May 28th, 2010 8:37 AM

^Looks good, Imo, it needs a bit more in the white area. I say don't be afraid to use all the canvas in photoshop. Just don't go and over fill it ;P. Also, sometimes mixing warm and cool tones is a good thing. Tis all about the blend.

8/10



Made this as a wallpaper for RvB fans, I feel proud of it, but I'm always up for improvement. ^ ^ Feel free to lemme know.

If you wanna download the full resolution for it, you can get it here.
http://kiyoshinobuyuki.deviantart.com/#/d2qldg4

JokesterJesee May 29th, 2010 3:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Little Brother (Post 5836050)
^Looks good, Imo, it needs a bit more in the white area. I say don't be afraid to use all the canvas in photoshop. Just don't go and over fill it ;P. Also, sometimes mixing warm and cool tones is a good thing. Tis all about the blend.

8/10


Made this as a wallpaper for RvB fans, I feel proud of it, but I'm always up for improvement. ^ ^ Feel free to lemme know.

If you wanna download the full resolution for it, you can get it here.


This looks well alright. the background is nice, but than it looks somewhat like you just the halo people there with no editing done. Thatas my opinion.

it looks nice overall.

Can i get some comments on my sig haha.

~JKJesse~

R a c h e l June 3rd, 2010 8:32 AM

JokesterJesee - I like your sig, the colours are quite shocking but contrast really well. I think the background could use a liitle more work as it just looks like a purple background with a couple of C4Ds on top, but I do like it overall =]

Made this banner for a livejournal, it's designed to have a little block of black text over the right hand side where the shell is which is why it looks so so empty.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b40/sapphiress/banner-1.png

Loki June 3rd, 2010 10:22 AM

^ I definitely think that would be a lot better without Princess Peach. xD; Or with a different PNG. The style is amazing, but it just doesn't mesh with your focal- not that it's really a focal since it's an LJ banner, but regardless. I think the outerglow or... whatever it is you ahve on the shell could be a bit smooth on the edges, as it kind of looks like you messed with the colors too much and made what was soft edges into hard ones.

Minus Peach, I'd really like this. =u=
But alas, it's got stylistic issues, so I'm not sure I'm a fan. It's probably my personal opinion though. <3

@Serene Grace: YES ILU THAT IS AMAZING. Samurai Champloo tags always seem to kick butt. I really like this- particularly the empty positive space, which I definitely don't think you should fill. =u= I think if you put the stroke on the text in the background to 'inside' rather than 'outside' the text would look even better. Cleaner with sharper edges. It'd also be nice to have something in the foreground, but I think it looks quite fine the way it is, so these are just nitpicky things. If I were still as into SC as I was awhile back, I'd totally be on my hands and knees begging you to let me use it. eue;

Melvern June 10th, 2010 3:27 AM

1 Attachment(s)
welll here's my first signature.... credits to worldslayer608 for tutorials and
kida for base.... i'll attach mine :)
and this was my very first:D

Rocout June 13th, 2010 9:44 PM

^ For a first, that's pretty nice. Very simple and clean. Though this is your first, I advice that you read tutorials to get more knowledge on creating a tag with flow, color variety, lighting and all that. Keep it up. 8/10 for a first! :)

@ Serene Grace: Very nice. You need work on effects though. A part of the clipping mask of the splatter is really bright to the point that its painful to look at. The text background isn't really cutting it for me either, and it looks really plain. The C4D on the focal's puffed sleeve (lol) looks out of place. However, I like that you keep the tag sharp and I love the lighting between background and foreground. Focal placement is top-notch too. 7/10 at best. :)

http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/3904/lucario.png

New tag, C+CC please. I heart Lucario. :)

seeker June 14th, 2010 2:13 AM

First off, the lighting takes away from the focal tenfold. When I look at this tag I don't see it centred around Lucario, I see a big ball of light hit me smack between the eyes. Tone it down a bit. Again with lighting though, you have too many light sources, all these spot lights everywhere aren't doing the tag any great favours. The tag is also lacking depth too, no blurring or smudging can do that though, you should blend your render with the background more. The text is a little pointless too, but I think it might be a little better in colour. When you're making B&W tags depth depth depth are completely necessary, you're just lacking that here. Slight monotone too, not enough contrast really, that can be sorted with depth as well as using a contrast layer if you're lazy like I can be. In any case, not too bad but not too good either, room for improvement, just have a look at my comments and implement them into your future work. Good attempt though, keep at it.



My gallery is lacking comments so I'm gonna shoot this one out here for some C&C.

http://i46.*.com/2rp5rpy.png

Rocout June 14th, 2010 2:38 AM

Thanks for the C+CC mate, depth has always been a problem for me, and that worsens because I'm a stickler for B/W tags. XD

^ One of the things that really stand out for me here is the text. Brilliant placement and it blends in perfectly with the rest of the tag. Colours are top-notch too. I love the colour lighting (I could never do that kind of stuff since soft-brush is the only thing I know XD). Focal placement is great and flows with everything else. Only thing bothering me here is the warm colours of the focal itself. I don't think the render blends in very well with the tag's colour pallette and I feel very iffy if I compared looks between the rest of the tag and the render. Its a very nice tag though. ;) 8/10

http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/6483/deathgr5.png

A tag I made a few months ago and haven't really been commented yet. I have this thing about crack textures. One of my better colour tags btw. XD

Chibi Robo June 22nd, 2010 1:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rocout (Post 5880435)
Thanks for the C+CC mate, depth has always been a problem for me, and that worsens because I'm a stickler for B/W tags. XD

^ One of the things that really stand out for me here is the text. Brilliant placement and it blends in perfectly with the rest of the tag. Colours are top-notch too. I love the colour lighting (I could never do that kind of stuff since soft-brush is the only thing I know XD). Focal placement is great and flows with everything else. Only thing bothering me here is the warm colours of the focal itself. I don't think the render blends in very well with the tag's colour pallette and I feel very iffy if I compared looks between the rest of the tag and the render. Its a very nice tag though. ;) 8/10

http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/6483/deathgr5.png

A tag I made a few months ago and haven't really been commented yet. I have this thing about crack textures. One of my better colour tags btw. XD

O___O
Sorry for no critique there doesnt seem to be anything wrong with it.

10/10

http://i49.*.com/20a84cz.jpg

Kinda big, but I decided to put it here anyways~

SUTANRII June 24th, 2010 9:11 PM

3/10

Too big and the black/white is alright but it doesn't seem like you did much with the image except change the color or maybe paste images on top of another image.

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p30/Leight_2007/FireEmblemSig.jpg

My attempt at something a bit more advanced lol

Serene Grace June 26th, 2010 5:22 AM

@SUTANRII: Nice tag dude, I [heart] the effects you put in! I also love the depth you've added with the splatters and C4D's. The only thing that irks me is the typography, which, in my opinion, shouldn't be so far away from the focal. There is already some C4D's taking up space there and it's better to blend it nicely with the focal anyway. But, it's really nice anyway. :3

http://i46.*.com/de3bx1.png

Oh, and btw, they're not nipples - just off coloured spots.. XD;

Here's mine :3

seeker June 26th, 2010 4:45 PM

Alrighty, I'm not here for critique but just to throw my opinions around, meaning that the next poster gets a "wildcard" and doesn't need to offer critique. So, anyway, Sutrainni, I'll give you another review since I quite like this tag.

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p30/Leight_2007/FireEmblemSig.jpg

The render first off has no actoin, thus creating little flow which already puts you at a disadvantage when making the tag as you don't have an obvious direction in which to position flow. But I say disadvantage and not a flaw in the tag itself as you've pulled it off quite nicely. But there are some things that urked me a bit. First would be the text, nice placement, overused font in which I feel,didn't suit the banner as well as it could. Birth of a hero is a really overused font and in my opinion, is best used in typography and not used in banners. It doesn't kill this tag or anything, just a minor observation from a nit picker. The clipping mask splatter you have around the wings, could have been pulled off better. The wings should have been erased a little with a splatter brush to make the effect flow. The lighting is nicely placed, just very strong, the tag could have done with another gradient map to blend it all better. Purple was a bad choice of colour, very vibrant when you have a nice soft palette, a very subtle red like the belt would have been a better idea. Other than that though, the tag is nicely composed and an improvement on your other work indefinately.
6/10

http://i46.*.com/de3bx1.png

Well firstly, I wouldn't go with borders, that style went cold a while ago. Anyway, you did the background quite well, bar the transpareny I notice, it would have been much nicer if you stuck with the entire background having being smudged. What this tag lacks most is depth, I'll be making something on depth soon where I'll explain it in detail but in this case, you need to smudge the render with the background otherwise it has a serious 2D effect. Almost like you pasted a render on a background and ended up with something that just look like 2 seperate images not blending rather than a flowing tag. In saying that, I really like the colour in this one, I think that maybe the red in yoko is a little too dark and should be more like tha background. Smudge this tag, blend colours better and I'd be rating this much higher. 5/10
Tagging is such a large thing nowadays, it's quite hard to keep in the loop. I've seen some seriously talented tag artists who would put anyone at PC to shame with a flick of their finger, the only reason I score kinda low is because of that fact. So don't take it too personally. But basically, work on those things and I'd be rating a lot higher, good work though.

maaddogg June 26th, 2010 6:14 PM

what do you guys think of this ^_^
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z247/v5000/Sasuke.png
be nice!! lol

Peeky Chew June 29th, 2010 2:25 AM

Putting aside the fact I don't much like the render, the colours don't match each other very well at all. If the purple was a red or dark blue, I think it would look better. The text could do with some improving too. 50/100

This is the first proper graphicy thing I've done on gimp:
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3271/zoruafinal.png
What do you think?

Serene Grace July 4th, 2010 4:30 AM

The style is very unique. I've seen it once or twice before and they always turn out very well made. This is also the case. The colour scheme you chose, in my opinion, is very appropriate for the piece and it blends very well. The effect that you used to surround Zorua itself is really unique because the smudge actually overlays the render and gives off a star effect.

The only problem I can notice is that there is too much overlay with the smudge and the image. It swamps it in a way and makes it too entwined with each other. Next time maybe try smudging the edges of the image and blending it in not to far into the image, then you could get a cleaner effect. Overall, well done on this piece though. If I were to give it a number rating, it would be 15/20.

Here is my piece. I was trying to use the pen tool for the first time ever so if anyone could give me any tips, that would be so useful. The stock can be found here and credit goes to josemanchado from deviantART.

Silver July 4th, 2010 2:45 PM

@ Serene: I like the tag, though it seems a bit plain. I don't understand the purpose of the green arrow on the right, but the piece itself is coherent and nice. The line weight on the pen-tooling could thicker as the current thin weight doesn't move the eyes as much as a thicker one would imo. Though, all of my pen tool experience is in Illustrator so I don't know if it is easy to change the line weight in photoshop. 8/10

Anyways, C&CC on my new sig?
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii310/Silvertalen/MimiruSig.jpg

I know the text seems weird, but I'm no good a text. =/

Aizuke July 5th, 2010 8:56 PM

Muyiwa; I think it's pretty interesting, a bit plain, like it's lacking something, but if you add anything else, it'll seem too cluttered. It's effective in the sense of simplicity and the pen tooling works quite well.

8/10

~

Silver; to be honest, the way it looks like it's been made is too simple. The right side seems really empty and it basically looks like you've made a background, added a render to it, put a glow effect around it and slapped some text on top. Although I'm not sure what your level of graphics making is, so sorry if this sounds a bit harsh coming from a veteran. But just to point out, outline glow doesn't really work well, unless you can somehow make it blend in your banner, and I think the render would look better in the middle of the banner, so then the right side doesn't seem too empty. A bit of lighting and depth would look quite well, along with some nice textures, or C4D's since it does seem a bit too plain and simple.

4/10


Artic.uno July 6th, 2010 2:18 AM

Anybody mind giving this C+C and a rating? It's my entry for the SotW:
http://i748.photobucket.com/albums/xx129/forgottenmemories_/Tags/sotw.png
I can take any kind of C+C, really, so don't be afraid if you think you sound too harsh.

moments. July 6th, 2010 4:18 PM

I'm feeling the tag might be a tad bright cause it is making the edges look really defined and sharp. Also, you have heaps of contrast on the focal, and then like the top and bottom is a bit cloudy, I think you could add some of that cloudiness over more of the tag. The tag is a little messy, but that's ok. And I reckon you bring out more of the warm colours in it.

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l552avPCHx1qcql6lo1_500.png

Alternative July 11th, 2010 5:41 AM

moments.
I feel that the focal of the signature has good flow towards it, and that you've created the signature to go with that flow, which looks really nice. The focal has good lighting to it as well. The only thing that bothers me is the bold colour and sharpness of the C4D you're used. The colour just seems out of place. The light ball things over the focal also distract me. If you got rid of those two ball things from over the focal, or made it a big ball of light and lowered the opacity a little bit more, it would look very nice.


http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg145/neo_bnichols/ichigo.jpg

Chibi Robo July 13th, 2010 10:34 AM

Alternative, yourrender doesnt show much action thats the first thing I notice, that creates no flow in the tag. Your also doing this mirror thing in the tag with the c4d's which in my opinion is cluttering it up a lot. The colors look nice and so is the text placment but the backround is kinda furry looking, which looks quite odd. Anyways I'd give it a 6/10, a fair score.

http://i28.*.com/16krvb4.png

I'd probably should have cleaned this up a bit more but whatever :D

Gazza July 14th, 2010 9:49 AM

It just seems cluttered and untidy but you said it yourself. you should have cleaned it up.
Other than that it's pretty good. 7/10
Stop being lazy. :P

Little tag I just made.
Honest opinions/ratings please. ;D

http://imgur.com/rl2Aj.png


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