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The Knight's Gallery
Lucky you, you have clicked on my gallery, now please comment on my art, but I’ll only accept constructive criticism. By the way, these are mostly Code Geass ones, so if you don’t like it, don’t look. These are all free with credit except the one I’m currently using. Themes: http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a298/shadowcris/anyaban.png http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a298/shadowcris/anayav.png I like this one, but I should have put the render after painting. http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a298/shadowcris/Bitterbroken.png http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a298/shadowcris/Bitterbrokenav.png My most recent theme and the one I'm currently using, I love it. I call this set either Friends and Foes or The Qualities Of Heroes. http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a298/shadowcris/Fallen.png http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a298/shadowcris/fallenav.png My favorite out of all, I made this in the memory of Lelouch's death in the last episode of R2. http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a298/shadowcris/Kururu.png http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a298/shadowcris/KURURAV.png A Suzaku theme I used about a week ago, nothing special about it. http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a298/shadowcris/HAPPYBROS.png http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a298/shadowcris/HaPpYbrosav.png A nice render with some subtle yaoi undertones, soft pastel colors and some softglow, I love it. The avatar is awesome, just because I cannot duplicate the effect on any other theme. My first time using floral brushes. |
Overall, your signatures need more effects to make it more eye-catching. From what I'm seeing, you're basically making a matching background and slapping a render onto it. You need to do more to your banners. Brush over your banners and alter the colors a tad bit, and maybe even smudge it a little to make it blend better. Add lighting effects, make areas darker than others, add more flow with c4ds, et cetera. Magic brushes are great for brushing over a render, and c4ds add flow to a banner so everything looks like it's going some place (eh, flow's hard to describe). For example, banner #3 would look great with a c4d going <- way. On topic of banner #3, don't brush over the render's face with brushes that are so opaque.
You need to add contrast to your banners, and more importantly make your render stand out. The render of your banner usually would want the most attention out of everything else in your banner. You can do this by lightening the background behind it, or you can sharpen the render and blur areas that are far away from the render. This will give your banner more depth, and attract attention to the focal, which is something you would want. Resize your renders, too. I don't know why Suzaku's head is so big on banner #4. Redo your avatars completely. Don't just crop your avatar out of a rectangular area in the banner; actually redo avatars from scratch. ...and is it just me or is the render on banner #3 squished together vertically? >_< |
All of them are really good for a begginer, and I really encourage you to keep it up.(and probobly follow Kayashi's advice).
Oh and I like the last theme the best. Good jobs, and nice soft (and pleasing) colors. |
tyhe colors are good but everything Kayashi said is true...
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Rip your eyes out and start over…
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Thanks guys, I really aprecciate all your help since not many people would be interested in the art of a newbie. I tried to take all of your advice in consideration to make this sig, so here it is:
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a298/shadowcris/Adored.pnghttp://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a298/shadowcris/kissav2.pnghttp://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a298/shadowcris/Kissav.png My first time using both magic brushes and galaxy brushes, I actually like how it turned out. I made 2 avatars, one by copying the banner and the other from scratch, but I like the copied one better. |
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