Graphic Rating Thread Page 38

Started by Sawyer June 1st, 2005 6:47 AM
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Loki

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Mizt, I'll rate your current one, because it looks a lot better than the Rayquaza one IMO, and also your other brown-ish one.

On your current banner... Well, good usage of gradient. Very nice. What's not so great is that it's somewhat obvious you didn't render the palkia image due to some of the splatters cutting off abruptly, and others looking as though they have a white overlay on them. I don't know if you noticed. xD The two splatters that are repeated in the middle, the big ones, that's a big no-no. You never want to use the same brushes in two places where they'll instantly be recognized as the same. That's bad bad bad, because looking as this banner, I see that you used maybe three brushes max. The text is great, though if you wanted, it could be a little bigger. Placement is alright, though you might want to shove it into the corner a bit more. The squares next to the text are a great touch. Though, perhaps next time, you'll want to make the stock a little bigger, so that it takes up more space. It's a good banner overall though, that's for sure.

If you don't know how to render on Photoshop, I have a quick and crappy tutorial I whipped up for Chikara awhile back. If you can understand it, you should give it a shot. xD You might not be able to understand it though, because I'm terrible at explaining, let alone tutorials. </3

Extremely Vague Rendering Tutorial

That said, I'll ignore the terrible render job on the next one I'm rating. First thing I have to say, there is such thing as over-use. Here, you've majorly overused the star brush, and that goes for your Rayquaza banner as well. You should try experimenting with other borders, instead of just using the dotted border all the time. Sometimes, a simple 1 px black line works wonders as a great border. *nod* The color effects on the render are somewhat odd, and I'm not a huge fan of it. But I'll have to disagree with Shika-kun here and say that the text decorations on the bottom aren't all too bad. Adding the X's, which I'd imagine are meant to be text decorations in themselves, it might be a bit too much, but if we see the X's merely as text, then it's a good attempt. Keep an eye on making sure you don't overuse a single element in your banner, because we want to see different styles. ^^

Shika-kun; Well, it's a clean render, which is good. The blending attempt on the right doesn't look all too great, but it's not too noticeable, and it's not terrible either. The background's grungy look doesn't really fit the cleanliness of the render to me though. The lines could have a lowered opacity, along with the text. Text placement and decor's are good though, font is okay. The c4d is nicely placed, so that's definitely a plus. Overall good job on this one, I'd say.

Hazuki; TEPPO PEPPER?! Can't rate it until you give Teppo proper credit. ;< Goes hand-in-hand with my dA art policy. It's technically a form of art theft to me. *having been busted for it a long time ago, I'm terribly paranoid about it now.*
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i dont really like 2 colored borders but the blending and
aipoms pose are nice. You couldve gone a little smaller with the text.
Using Xenocrates tut I rendered and made this:
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Shika

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I know that was the first try but the tutorial Mizzy-chan gave was hard too.
So try this one.
Clicky!

If you weren't confused by that, your rendering job will get better and easier~
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i dont really like 2 colored borders but the blending and
aipoms pose are nice. You couldve gone a little smaller with the text.
Using Xenocrates tut I rendered and made this:
No one did you again ><

Okie. I can like... see the blocks of color in his hat ._.
I'm sure that has a name, but yeah, that throws you off. The blending is something to work on, his hair cuts off on the left side, unless that's just how the picture goes. You really do like your gradients, it flows nicely :D

What I DON'T like about it is how that flower/plant brush looks like it was just put there to take up space. It doesn't really go with the rest of the picture. I like the stars at the bottom better, you could have done some more stars or gotten a shiny new star brush and done it that way.

Well I'll stop then ><
7/10 It's nice but needs work~

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UHBUT I have 2 banners that need rating this time. First off, the new on in my signature...

I like this one more than the other one, it took forever to do though x.x

And then there's this one...

My first attempt at leaving some parts transparent. I've seen it done like this a lot so I tried it and yay~

Loki

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I guess the tutorial was too vague. Dx;; Sorry Mizt.

Anyway, yeah, the render job would be the most degenerating feature in that banner IMO. The pixellation (squares of color that Chikara was referring to,) is also pretty bad. Try using er... higher quality images. xD;; The stars are well-placed, but I'd advise against adding more of the same stars, because that's, again, treading on overuse. You should get a few different brushes, because your banners are starting to get a bit monotonous.

Chikara, I prefer the one on top to the one on the bottom, so I'll rate that one. xD

Well... You should definitely try for a few more colors in your banners. xD It's very cute though, and I like the vector-y style. Although, maybe you should try out a few banners that aren't vector-styled? |D;; Focus is nice, and since it's vector, I guess blending isn't an issue. However, what is an issue is that the render is all shiny and the background is flat. It kind of collides, if you know what I'm saying?

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So if anyone would be so kind as to comment on my new banner;


And, as much as I love to know that 'it looks great', 'looks okay', 'looks terrible', or something vague like that, I'd love to know exactly what part of it 'looks great/terrible/okay'.

xD;;

I'm also wanting your opinion; Should I make a matching avatar with the same render as the banner in it, or keep my current avatar?
Seen September 8th, 2010
Posted September 8th, 2010
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Aaaah, I missed this thread xD

Anyway, since I'm lazy and I only have about an hour of internet time and it usually takes me ages to rate one banner, I'll rate Xenoc's latest one. I might rate some more once I get back... In two weeks, or something like that >.> Some of the banners I've seen just scanning through the last few pages of the thread were really nice, though.

Soo... Onto the rating. To start off, I must say that the text is brilliant, as it is with most of your banners. The text font, colour, size and placement are very well done, although I think the "Yours" bit could have been nudged a bit to the right, since it looks a tiny bit too cluttered, but other than that, it's wonderful ^^ The heart is an awesome addition as well.

The blending of the render to the background is amazingly done, although I think that the right side is done better than the left >x< The scanlines are nice, but they stand out quite a bit over the lighter bits rather than the dark bits, so maybe reduce the opacity, or use a soft brush to erase over it at a low opacity, or something O_o

Although the good thing about the scan lines is that they take focus away from the guy's clothing, so you focus on his face. Well, it works like that for me, anyway. Oh, and have I mentioned how much I love the background <3 It looks incredible, and the colours are nice as well.

And that's pretty much it, I guess... Oh, and the lack of lighting kind of sucks, but it seems to be kind of hard to add lighting to that banner as it is right now, so I'll let that slip by for now... xD

Oh, and I think your current avatar works with the banner. Not only does it match, but it also prevents people from going "But you just cropped that avatar out of your banner! You're laaaaaaazy!!"

-is bored-

>.>
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Seen July 16th, 2014
Posted July 16th, 2014
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hey Xeno where'd you get the image for that banner?
It looks rwally cool did you add any c4ds?
here's my newest:
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Seen April 20th, 2011
Posted October 19th, 2009
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I'll rate Mizzys. =)

Well..... all I can say that it is really good! I like the texture and the text that blends in with the mood of this banner. And I was hoping how did you do that abstract stuff in the background. ^^;;

Really, all of your works are great. Plain and simple. ^^
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Loki

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Shira-chan; I'm glad you like the text, and since I still have the .psd, I'll try out moving it aside to see how it looks. xD This is actually the first time I've ever actually set aside a spot on the banner for text in the very beginning, so I'm rather pleased with how it turned out.

Yesss, the blending. xD; Well, I'd have to say that I probably should've used a smaller brush on his hair concerning the left, because there was actually... quite a few strands that I ended up scattering. <_<;; And I didn't want to blend his face in fear of losing the focus. xD

At a second glance now, I realize that the scanlines are a little too heavy. xD;; I'll probably fix that too and see how it looks. *It was my intention to use the scanlines to flesh out the focus, but I think due to the texture I added, the scanlines were darkened, and I didn't notice...*

Ahhh, the background. |D I do love rusty textures. *It looks a little earthen to me now, but before the texture, it was all... space-like. But I like this earthy look better.*


(spacey... well it was. xD This is without the texture, with the text moved aside. Darn you, apply image! Dx)
(I was obviously too lazy to add a border... xD; Or add the burn that's on the first one.)

Guh, I'm still working on making lighting work in my banners. I have a lot of trouble with it. D: *facedesk* It never looks natural. I should probably add it a little earlier on I guess... *fish'd*

I'm glad the avvy is alright though, I was fretting over it a bit. xD;

Mizt; No c4d's in this one, just brushing, color layers, and smudging. I was going to use a c4d, but I couldn't find an appropriately fitting one. So I tossed the idea. xD I got this image off some D.Gray-Man site, but I usually get my other images from planetrenders and photobucket. Thanks for the compliment too. xD

Like I said, this looks just the same as all your other banners, except, it's a different color scheme and the render is different, and considerably cleaner. So, I don't find any particular need to rate it, since you might as well check out my other comments about your other banners that look like this, and voila. xD And, again, like I said, you should really try a different style.

Hazuki; Why, thankies! |D The abstract stuff is a combination between a grunge-sphere brush I got of dA, and smudging.

Thank you thank you~ <3
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ok. This one looks better beacuase there's no border 6_6
second cause the bruzhes at the top blend well and go witth the image. Great job!! ^^
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@mizt looks very good is what i have to say. it looks a little empty though needs text.

@hazuki looks very cute. ive never seen that kind of style before very creative. although i like the text to be readabl but thats just me

can anyone rate my sig?
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Loki

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I made this banner for theEND, so if anyone wants to give a quick comment on it or something, that'd be awesome. ^^


Hazuki; It's a nice icon, but the text doesn't really match to me, and it probably would've been better if you'd added less of the pink on top and more of the image on the bottom.
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I love it, shika. Nice job. I like the purple tone. It fits in with the image ^^
I just made 2 more.

This is with the same texture. I lowered the opacity so it looks better than the other one.. i think..
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Mizt-MM..the render looks a big big to me and the background has a bit too much going on..anyways its not bad and i like how it runed out i guess..

I have three that need to be rated-err,well four if you count the avvy!

Teh Avatar
Teh Signature ^_^ rate plz as a theme!
A little somethin i did of Sasuke!
Halo 3 ..no explaination needed!


Hope you like!

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@mizuki - pretty nice. it looks relly nice is all i have to say. what blending mode did you put it on?

@shika - hm the winter breeze brush from deviantart + some gradients right? i would reccomend some text as it looks empty

@mizt - looks pretty good. like sasuke darkness said the render is a little big. but definately a big improvement.

@sasuke - looks like your using my little tut i gave you. good is all i can say. but remember to use ripple after wave




please rate. i went a little crazy with this one, ok really crazy. anyways rate please.
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