Averlan's Sigs

As this is my first post here I'd like to say "HELLO" to everyone here. I'm relatively new to signature making so my signatures can be not as good as other people ones, but I'd appriciate your opinions about them. Thanks in advance :). Signatures will be sorted in order from the oldest to the newest (of making). Those are all sigs I've made so far:

1)
http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/9908/fsn1.jpg

2)
http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/2567/anime1i.jpg

3)
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/5331/anime2l.jpg

4)
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/9459/anime4c.jpg

5)
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/6126/anime5.jpg

6)
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/1080/anime6.jpg

7)
http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/3295/anime7a.jpg

8)
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/1444/anime9.jpg

9)
http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/1430/anime8u.jpg

10)
http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/2192/anime10.jpg

11)
http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/6197/anime11.jpg

12)
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/1331/anime12.jpg

13)
http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/5375/anime13.jpg

14)
http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/9061/animeflat.png

2,10,11,12,13 are my favorite!You're really good!!I don't know much about signatures but these are some good work.Keep it up buddy!
And I must ask,do you take requests?:3

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Originally Posted by .Elmer

And I must ask,do you take requests?:3

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Well I don't know if I should take requests coz I dunno if I'm able to meet peoples expectations ;). I can try, but I don't promise anything. You can name size of the sig you want me to make for you, text, give me a render (link) and tell any additional info you want me to do/place in the sig. I'll say once more I don't promise I'll be able to meet your expectations :)

number 5,7,11,12,13 are great, love them...... in 7 you could have made the eyes green like the background... that would look better

This is really hard to believe , but you're wayyyy better than me .

Oh and I really LOVEEEE signature 13# .
Please make a tutorial for it please ?
I gotta know how you done it with siggie numero 13# /

Keep up the good work , but make the siggie sizes abit more smaller though .

these are very nice :D u should add more effects to num. 14...but i think its just my moniters fault. But anways, its very nice :D keep it up. and add your name somewhere to b more decorative. use more effects to pics as well, because some look like ordinary pics if i am not mistaken :D but very very nice very nice :DDD what did u use for this, photoshop?

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Originally Posted by BYTdot

Oh and I really LOVEEEE signature 13# .
Please make a tutorial for it please ?
I gotta know how you done it with siggie numero 13# /

Keep up the good work , but make the siggie sizes abit more smaller though .

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Magna Carta sig (13) took me 4 hours to make, but yes, I'm quite happy with the result :)
A tutorial? :D Well when I get some spare time coz exams are closing on studies ;). I do large sigs coz I like large things :laugh:, nah kidding, it's for learning purposes. Easier to learn on larger sigs.
Quick tip about Magna Carta sig, it's not THAT hard to make, it just needs a lot of patience coz there is a lot to do with rubber ;)

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Originally Posted by Bloomingdale

these are very nice :D u should add more effects to num. 14...but i think its just my moniters fault. But anways, its very nice :D keep it up. and add your name somewhere to b more decorative. use more effects to pics as well, because some look like ordinary pics if i am not mistaken :D but very very nice very nice :DDD what did u use for this, photoshop?

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TBH number 14 was made in haste, coz I wanted to try new technique (render "going out" of background). What do you mean by use more effect on pics? I don't think packing sigs with 20 effects will get me better result than putting carefully thought 5 effects :cool:
About last question, yes I'm solely using Adobe Photoshop.

omg omg omg omg omg!!!!!!!!
these are awesomeXDDDD
your a beginner??come on your kidding me right??
these are amazing
the color is good,the poses,the special effects,the charcters omg,everything about these are great XDDDD,please if you have more or make anymore by all means post XDD

Heh thanks. About being a begginer, those are ALL sigs I made so far, so it's not that many :laugh:. I'm just learning fast ;). I'll post more for sure soon.

All I could say is that you should try to make them smaller, I understand it's easier to learn on larger sigs, but you should try and work with smaller now that you've got it down, otherwise I'd say be careful with blending (I'm not AT ALL the one to be giving advice on blending) but the problem is that your stock gets lost in the background. I'd like to see you work with some more text
Otherwise, you're a professional as far as I'm concerned

Atleast you managed to try to blend, thats a plus. But that area still has some working on to do. My favorite out of all them has to be number 9, I dont know why but its just more out there then the others to me.

and I would save them to the same format you saved number 14 on.

and like someone said before me, they would look better if they was a tad smaller, but some people can make big signatures look really great too.

Keep on improving though, you are on the right path so far.

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Originally Posted by Wolley

the problem is that your stock gets lost in the background

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Could you explain in more detail what do you mean by that please? ;)

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Originally Posted by Novak

Atleast you managed to try to blend, thats a plus. But that area still has some working on to do.

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What do you mean by "managed to try to blend"? I'd appriciate if you can tell me what should I improve in that case. I'm always open for constructive critique. :laugh:

I just mean that in a lot of spots on the stock you blend the background over it and it makes the stock transparent.
For example... #13, where you can see the background through her sword.

Your sigs are quite good. The colour work good together. And with the positions of the various elements, you achieved a really good overall composition.

#12 is prob my fav

#1 The background doesnt really match the renders, and also looks kinda plain.
#2 looks pretty good except the top left corner is kinda empty
#3 pretty good but background seems plain
#4 The black parts of the BG doesnt match the render that much, also i think it wouldve been better to ut a C4D over the render to blend instead of smudging since the renders hair takes up alot of space.
#5 well done :D
#6 Render looks a little smal compared to the background (yes theres a giant gun but the main body of it is still small)
#7 Bg doesnt match render :(
#8 Looks nice, i like how the focal is as lulu's hand.
#9 the BG seems plain
#10 render blended in too much xD
#13 i dont think u shouldve made her hand transparent
#14 not a big fan, but pop out sigs are hard xD

In some of ur sigs u got alot of the Bg showing, when u have that u got to put more stuff into it, like a C4D or some different colored brushing, heck even a clipping mask. Also make sure not to blend the render too much like in #10 and #11, it makes the renders look transparent and u dont want the render to be part of the BG but more like.....fit in to it? :p Also #1 and #7 the BG dont match the render, try using colors from the render or something close to them.

Thanks for pointing out what's wrong with each sig Xombii. Altough I can't agree with you in few cases (if I don't comment on particular sig I agree with you):

#4 I didn't smudge anything there, as for placing C4D somewhere I agree with you
#9 it was my intention to make this sig space/foggy so I didn't put many C4Ds there (actually there is only one on the left)
#10 render is not blended at all coz there is no render, it's made of stock image ;), so if you think it's blended too much, complain to person who made stock image :D
#13 what do you mean by transparent hand? the only thing I blended here is her sword and hair (which I shouldn't blend anyway as now I see), I don't see anything transparent on hands but maybe you do, please make detailed description where, maybe I missed something :)
#14 My first pop out sig, it's not good enough for me also;)

Ok, so I had some time to spare and made a new sig. This time featuring Claire from Claymore. I also tried to make it little smaller. As always all your opinions are most appriciated ;). Look forward for more sigs (maybe even today) :p

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/1282/anime1.png

Another signature. This time featuring Mai from My-Hime. Quite a diffirent style than I use usually so it can be not of the first quality, but if someone likes it I can put his/her name on it (either instead of My-Hime mark or somewhere else). As always all comments appriciated ;). Keep in mind this is the FIRST SIGNATURE I'M GIVING TO THE FIRST PERSON WHO WILL WANT IT.

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/879/anime2.png

3rd signature made today by me (I have some free time today lol), featuring Suigintou from Rozen Maiden. It has a little more text in in, I'm not quite happy with the text (would like to get some feedback about placement/font/size). Beside that I'm quite happy with the overall result. Feel free to comment on this one too ;)

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/2805/anime3x.png

they're all real good, especially the one you currently have.
on the latest one, i'm not fond of the text but they're all so creative.
*reps*

edit: for some reason, i'd put the font for the orange one on the other side of her where theres no orange, or where her shoulder is (not on the side where the green is)
idk though, i'm weird with font! x_x

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Originally Posted by Averlan

#13 what do you mean by transparent hand? the only thing I blended here is her sword and hair (which I shouldn't blend anyway as now I see), I don't see anything transparent on hands but maybe you do, please make detailed

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Wasnt thinking properly when i commented xD the parts circled, the arm in the back thats what i meant by hand:eek: I would suggest instead of feathering or erasing that area to blend it, i would go New Layer-Apply Image-Gussain Blur-And erase the parts on the focal point. Sorry its just my taste not to have the render all trasnparent:(
http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/m.../Alverans2.jpg

New ones look simple yet elegeant :D
#2 I think you could have cut down a little on the splatter brushing.

Thx for opinion bayamesa.
Xombii I agree with you that I shouldn't make her swrod transparent, her hair too either, but I never did anything to her arm in the back which would make it trasparent :). I'll try the technique you're suggesting maybe it'll be better than my current one :). Thx for tips.

EDIT:

I've just made a new sig. It's VERY SIMPLE yet I still think it's kawaii. When I saw the render I just had a vision about how the sig should look. Here is the final outcome :)

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/9962/anime4.png

A little bump but with a reason coz adding 2 new signatures :)

Another signature featuring char from Magna Carta
http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/8946/anime5.png

First real attempt to make a tech looking signature
http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/5049/anime15.png

Any C&Cs appriciated :)

The first one is pretty darn good. Colors are a lot different than I'm used to, but I like it.

I like the last one a lot, the border needs to go though. I really like what you did with the text though.

i really like the suiginyou one,the icy blue and her expressions are just amazing

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Originally Posted by Hyphen

The first one is pretty darn good. Colors are a lot different than I'm used to, but I like it.

I like the last one a lot, the border needs to go though. I really like what you did with the text though.

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Thanks for C&C, I agree about the border in tech sig, doesn't look good at all lol, now I can see it, could use some feedback on that (how to make futuristic looking border). I had problems with placing text properly so it'd like, like it's displayed on the monitor, took me 1hour to do proper perspective and skew :D

Pein-Sama thanks for your C&C also ;)

Adding some more signatures:

This one was my first request ever made. FromBeyondLimiT was the first lucky guy :laugh:

Sig has been made out of stock which is shown below. I'm not very familiar with stock kind signatures, but I think it turned out OK.
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/2176/1v3.png

Stock used to create above signature.
stock

Another signature made out of stock image (I lost the stock somewhere lol)
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/2536/anime16.png

Sig made especially for Christmas, quite simple, but imo looks good (top left part of the sig is quite empty - well not exactly coz there is snow - but that was my intention to do it that way ;)
http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/1606/anime17.png

As always, all C&C most appriciated.