Road's Sigs

Hey all! Strangely enough this is also my first post xD

A couple years ago I was a moderator on a few other anime forums yet real life got in the way and I lost interest. On one of them I made sigs for other people and I would love to do so here.

So seeing this sub forum I would love to display a lot of my past works and such haha.

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...s/Newsig-1.jpg

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...cs/Zensig1.jpg

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...hics/Andeh.jpg

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...cs/RoadSig.jpg

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...ics/Saintz.jpg

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j.../Pearchris.jpg

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...hics/Durga.jpg

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...Persephone.jpg

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...essissiggy.jpg

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...cs/Linksig.jpg

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...biggercopy.jpg

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...ruelladone.jpg

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...undedKoall.gif

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...gdreamssig.jpg

They are okay, you made all of them the same way though and the quality is lacking. I've noticed they are all .jpg's and one is even a gif and it's not animated or anything?? For future reference use .png to save your works. It won't lower the quality like jpeg and gif [unless it's actually a gif]. You say these are older works? How old are they? Do you plan to make anymore current ones?

yeah all but the first one is about 3 or 4 years old. The Gif one was made a Gif, because at the time i was learning how to make the rounded edges and it called for it. They all look the same, because most of the ones that were requested of my were asked for that way. Minus the ones i made for myself.

Ill post more recent stuff.

Some of 'em are really cute, like the girly ones. Good job :)

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The Gif one was made a Gif, because at the time i was learning how to make the rounded edges and it called for it.

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Use .PNGs for transparent/rounded edges not GIF. ^-^ I don't recommend using gif for anything unless it looks like my sig.

I learned most all of my photoshop techniques from tutorial that date back to 2004 and 2005, gah... i need to brush up on my file formats >.>

Why did you save some of your work as jpgs? They're evil things... very evil little things to signatures and they make the quality of it really icky. Not that I'm saying your works are icky. ^^'

Now you're telling us that your techniques were back in 04 and 05, deviantArt have so many tutorials there of how to make signatures. Saving your files as pngs are better too because the quality is clear and the signature itself will look a little cleaner that way. You should post in recent works because I can't just give you comments on them when they're old as that. :c Anyways, a few notes that I'll give you just to improve. And I think I should give these tips to people from now on anyway. aha

1- You are good as your reference.
When you get the good things, whatever you will do it will end up good. And that is your goal as the artist to accomplish that.

2- Find something or someone to inspire you.
If you have found a signature that you love so much, try to emulate them. In that way you are learning and you're really improving that way when creating your signature.

3- Practice makes perfect.
Keep making signatures everyday if you have to. However I don't think it's best to post them up all the time, each and everyday. What you do is that when you will make a post at least have multiples so you and the viewers will see what you have doing. (Also, not have too many post around, think of it you'll save some "paper" [forum posts here].)

4- Browse around to get more sources.
Find the site you like for brushes, fonts, textures, tutorials, renders, etc. Sources for you to do your work and make sure you'll use it all. At least get the ones that will be most appropriate for your signature or whatever graphics you will do.

5- Ask a buddy.
Have someone as some kind of a role model when you do things. They give you tips, help you improve, and best of all that person will be a friend in and out of graphics. You can even help out one another in signatures. Here in the forum, sometimes you do collaborations together on graphics and at the same time you learn what the other does.

6- Love your hardwork.
I can't stress that enough, you know what you did and I know no matter what you will always love how you did your work, even if it would be bashed. We as humans, sometimes it's hard to say things in a nice way, and then when we do sometimes it turns out we sound mean. Our intentions are good, it's up to you as a person and an artist to take it in a good way. So do what you feel is good for your stuff and do more so you will go far. <3

Anyways, good luck with your next batch of signatures. I will be looking forward for them as well as other people here on AF.

I like them but a few are blury

Well they are very awsome. But some are so darky :)

The chars are kind of blurry and low-quality in certain sigs. Plus you use the same effects on most of them, so that's kind of monotone. But keep up the great work and you're bound to get better at it!

New sig and its a .png this time xD

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j.../Yukisiggy.png

You need to resize the width of your sig. The left purple glow orb randomly cuts off short like you didn't align it to the edge well. You're getting better on experimenting new things and the stock is actually clear! I like it! Good improvements! You still have some flaws but you're getting the hang of the DO's and DONT's.. Don't worry though, once I didn't align a border well, for a contest!! It was mighty embarrassing! >__<

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You need to resize the width of your sig. The left purple glow orb randomly cuts off short like you didn't align it to the edge well. You're getting better on experimenting new things and the stock is actually clear! I like it! Good improvements! You still have some flaws but you're getting the hang of the DO's and DONT's.. Don't worry though, once I didn't align a border well, for a contest!! It was mighty embarrassing! >__<

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OMG i i have no idea how that happened sigh... that was not supposed to happed xD thanks for pointing that out to me, i made it really late last night haha my eyes must have glazed over a bit x)
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...fixedsiggy.png

its nice,
its not too fancy over the top that you don't wanna see it, but its also not so plain and simple makes you wonder what's going on... with the white spaces of evil.. (I should say black, but white is also evil ..if too much.. orz)

xDD

Here are some new ones i did for some requests! I would love critiques!
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...trenosiggy.png

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...sm00zytest.png

your sig are good, you just need to make it small, it's always good for sig maker. :)

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Originally Posted by NoeLCooL45

your sig are good, you just need to make it small, it's always good for sig maker. :)

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I was asked for that big of a sig xD

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Originally Posted by Road

I was asked for that big of a sig xD

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That's fine, if so. :)

New sig made using Ellipsis' tut. Tell me how I did!

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j.../Tutfinish.png

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Originally Posted by Road

New sig made using Ellipsis' tut. Tell me how I did!

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j.../Tutfinish.png

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The text still isn't quite there but I have to rightfully say you are getting better! You have a nice contrast of colors. I think a border should've probably been added. Now that I'm looking through, I've noticed you haven't put borders on much yet so I'd say maybe add a border to a few things to make it look confined. Like I use a black BG on the forums and the sig's BG is black so it sort of looks like it just randomly is cut off ^-^ You could try the top/bottom only border or you can go all the way around..

I used to often put black borders on then lower the opacity to keep the image going but keep ot confined as you said. Yet as of late when i go to do so it looks really sloppy -.- i guess i just have to practice a bit more.

The flow of your new sig is very nice, good to see you're getting better. :)
For your text, you just need to keep on making sig, you'll become better in doing text by yourself. :)