The Graphics Rating Thread [READ THE FIRST POST. D:<]

[Zebra Thunderhead]

I forgot to save the PSD for my sig one. ): It's basically just smudging, though. I can try and recreate it.

 

[Renyui!]

Free rate :D

 

[SwampertTrainer]

I agree with Hazuki, you really need to stop using just regular old pictures as your background. Tags have a lot more personality and meaning when you make the background yourself.

*sigh!* how many times must I say it: I didn't steal that! it's a photograph I took myself of a sunrise from my house. here it is on my blog!
https://oliverbunten-blog.blogspot.com/2008/08/another-glorious-sunrise.html

 

[Zebra Thunderhead]

I didn't say you stole it. I was just saying you need to get a little more original.

 

[SwampertTrainer]

How do you get any more original than a photo I took myself?

 

[Zebra Thunderhead]

By not using a stock photo for your background every time.

 

[SwampertTrainer]

I'M NOT!!! IT'S A PHOTO THAT I TOOK MYSELF!!!!!!!!!! How many times must I say it???

 

[Zebra Thunderhead]

Where do you keep managing to find me accusing you of stealing it? There's NO HINT of me saying that in what I just said. All I said was that you need to stop using stock pictures as your backgrounds. Do you KNOW what a stock photo is? Search anything on Flickr and that is a stock photo.

 

[SwampertTrainer]

And I am saying I DID NOT SEARCH FOR IT ON FLICKR!! I took it MYSELF! >=(

 

[Zebra Thunderhead]

OMG, I'm NOT SAYING YOU STOLE IT. What I'm trying to get through your thick skull is that you use regular pictures like the one you took in your tags. NOT JUST APPLYING TO THIS TAG.

 

[SwampertTrainer]

Well then what do you want me to use??

 

[Zebra Thunderhead]

Textures, renders, brushes, etc. Make your own background from scratch. This is what I've been trying to say... looooool.

 

[SwampertTrainer]

The you should have said that in the first place.
Anyway, now that that's settled, I've made something else:

 

[Renyui!]

The text is too big, the grass brushes are out of place, and the splatters seem to sharp. Youhave done better ones, this one wasnt exactly amazing.

 

[Conman]

Not liking the text at all. Concept is nice, but the actual positioning of objects is messy. Needs more depth as well and defiantly a light source.

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I used a very different style and the inspiration came from mainly my new shoes.

Rock Howard, one of my favorite fighting characters ever. I tried a lot of different things with this one too.

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Listening to: Coldplay - 42
via FoxyTunes​

 

[SwampertTrainer]

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I used a very different style and the inspiration came from mainly my new shoes.​

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It pretty good. I can definitely see the shoes-like appearance in it. One thing- it needs some darkness somewhere. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be looking at, since there's difference between the lighting at all =/
It may also look good with some cinematic boarders (I think... I'd have to see how that would look =)

And then here's mine. The graphics are a scan of a wrapping paper I drew for my brother's birthday gift (took me like, four hours!):

 

[Zebra Thunderhead]

@Conman - I can't even tell what the first tag is. The whole thing is too messy and you have a lot of different effects going on and there's no focal point. Looks and feels very flat; there's no depth. That purple is bothersome, too. The second tag isn't so bad, but it would look a lot better if you got rid of those circles and had a sense of flow. Everything is going all over the place in that one. The stock gets lost in there, as well.
@Swampert - Your monotoneness is killing me. ;_; https://www.colourlovers.com/ Go there, and love it. Use it. Abuse it. Just learn colors. The text is the focal point of the tag, which I assume you don't want. So make it blend in or something, but get rid of that outer glow. It hardly ever works on text. Not liking the green brush you dabbed over the sides and edges. If you want to give it a feeling of whatever, use black, not green.

Been working on some portfolio pieces as of late, so I've been straying away from tags and working on LPs. Here are the ones I've been working on:

Concert poster.

Uhh

Comments, pleeeeeease

 

[SwampertTrainer]

That's actually a green background with various burns, with the image semi-erased so the green shows through

 

[Zebra Thunderhead]

I don't care what it actually is. It looks funny and you should fix it. Now please rate my stuff or I won't rate yours any more.

 

[Conman]

First LP
Second LP​

Love the first one, the colors, concept, effects, and the birdie :o Not to mention the nice subtle pattern in the BG.
Now the second is good to, but not as interesting as the first. Mainly the rainbow colored effects throw me off. Also personally not a fan of that font.

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Just a sprite tag I did because Iori is awesome, and is also one of my fav fighting chars ever, like Rock Howard. Now...CnC?

Spoiler:

PS: What does LP stand for? I know what it is...I know how to make one..but my brain wants to make sure I know what the exact term stands for.

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Listening to: Gorillaz - Sound Check (Gravity)
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