I'm gonna come out with it on this one.
To be honest, at first I despised your graphics, I really didn't like them and weren't getting much better for a while there.
But holy cow, this is such an amazing improvement, you've obviously discovered how to use C4D's which is really great.
One thing may I ask, is try this for me, let's just for a while, tone down the brushes a whole ton, infact try not using brushes at all, and concentrate on your C4D's, use effect C4D's as your new tool, erase bad parts that don't fit in them etc, but just get them into your repitua [no clue how to spell that], I had the same problem as you, I loved my brushes but I can assure you, all you really need are splatter brushes and smudge brushes, because everything else starts to look tacky after a while.
Just a few tips for you, you're doing great ;D
No you're totally right, I was basically winging it with brushes. I had no direction at all and no one told me how to use c4ds, so I got horribly stuck in the same ways, developing repetitive and ugly habits along the way. I'm glad you despised my early work. Quite frankly, I would be surprised if anyone
actually like them, lol =/
But yeah, I'm really happy with my progress, but I feel like I still have a ways to go. For some reason I feel like I still need to finish a tag with one of my favorite brush sets because I can't think of anything else to do. So I'll take your advice and work only with c4ds. And thanks for the awesome feedback, I probably would have kept going the same way if no one had said anything, which shows that I still need to get better.
I do agree completely with Dukey here.
Your old style of hardcore brushing made most of your tags look very similar and lacked depth and real interest because they looked quite similar.
Listen to Dukey, he speaks the truth! More C4Ds and less brushes is the way to go.
Haha, thanks, I'll definitely be trying that =]