#3 - Freestyle [VOTING]

Started by seeker September 7th, 2011 5:31 AM
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Best tag of the fortnight?

Ho-Oh

used Sacred Fire!

Age 31
Female
QLD, Australia
Seen June 5th, 2022
Posted April 23rd, 2022
35,988 posts
17.5 Years
Voted for Galukxy.

Loving the colouring and effects there (idk I'm a sucker for that type of stuff it suits the render really well imo - only thing is the yellow around the hair kinda fades in too much and maybe if the hair of the person was a little darker it'd come out better but otherwise awesome).

Derozio's is also nice but I preferred the original colours of the stock (maybe altered a little less?) & moments, yeah, that over sharpening in the centre sort of ruined it for me as well as the lighting on the black dots. And Jarlorda's is fine but there's something missing and I can't put my finger on it. Probably still would've voted for Galukxy's even if those things were changed, so pretty. All entries were good though!

TwilightBlade

All dreams are but another reality.

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Florida
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Galuxy got my vote. I love the smudging and the colors. Derozio's entry was nice but the reds pop out a bit too much. Moments's entry was cool but the text and vertical bars don't really work. JalordaSerpent7's entry shows some expertise at brushing (I'm assuming, since it wasn't a stock), but needs a little more going on. ^^;

Loki

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Seen March 23rd, 2022
Posted June 14th, 2020
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Voted for Derozio. Love the style, the color-- and the text. Always been one of my favorite looks, and while not exactly pulled off perfectly, it's not shabby by any means. Definitely colors feel a tad bit overdone, and wish there was a little more in the foreground though, feels a bit.... incomplete, I suppose?

I can't say I'm particularly fond of galukxy's, mostly because there's just too much smudging. Focal feels smothered by the colors, and it just feels like a slather of various colors instead of... a tag, I guess. Also not feeling that hard stuff going on at the bottom. Dunno what it is, but the texture totally clashes with whatever smudge setting was used.

Not sure how I feel about the contrasting angles on moments' entry. Feels like all the lines are shooting the direction and flow of the tag all over the place and the contrast in color between the text and the focal are totally distracting me. I'm just not sure where to look. *A*;;

Not much to say on Jalorda's, you need fewer sparkles/stars and more concentration especially since you have a perfect spiral point around which to burn or darken the edges of your tag to bring in the focal.

derozio

door-kun best boii

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Akihabara
Seen June 27th, 2020
Posted August 16th, 2019
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14 Years
@Loki: Yeah, I felt it lacked in the 'foreground effects' department. I always seem to struggle with 'em! :'(

Moments's entry GMV. Galukxy's entry has a little too much of smudging in it. Almost that it makes the whole work seem messy. It does have nice colors, but yeah, the whole messy smudging just didn't appeal to me. Jalorda's entry..I don't really know what to say about it. I don't know what to look at. No particular focal point in there. I mean, it is there and the center of the spiral is obviously it, but you need to do some burning and dodging to make it a little more prominent. Now, coming to moment's entry: I loved nearly every aspect of the tag. Nearly everything. The only thing that bugged me was the oversharpening in the center. It took away from the epicness of the tag. It'd have been MUCH better if it weren't for those sharp edges I can see in the center.

But yeah, all said and done, Moments' entry appealed to me the most out of the bunch of entries this time.

moments.

quixotic

keyholes
Seen January 3rd, 2017
Posted March 13th, 2014
3,406 posts
14.9 Years
Voting for Derozio, while it is nothing original, the execution of colours and creating depth of field is technically wonderful, so that pulls it off for me.

Galukxy's really didn't do it for me. The smudge just feels random, it doesn't really have any direction, create flow and just feels to smother the stock. Also the colours aren't too vibrant and feel a little washed out...

As for Jalorda, definitely props for creating it from scratch, but other than that, it doesn't really have anything with grabs you and works excitingly for a tag.

Good to see a range of different entries though! :D
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