jack

wow, nice logo. looks professional

From Texas I see, did you play hockey growing up? What was it like?

v2

- v1 - original - v2 - removed lines stock - v3 - changed lighting a bit

it's kinda lq, and I prefer the plain bg anyway. not bad though

#shrekt

awesome work, thanks for the recognition

thanks mang

damn I'm pretty

Definitely don't mind the flashiness! I just like seeing everyone expand their repertoire.

Hey guys we should totally use the winner of this round for the site banner.

Effort: 2/2 - Wow, great work. Look: 3/3 - One of your best to date. Insane colouring, great text. Nice work man. Creativity: 1/1 - Absolutely. Total: 6/6 Final: 6/6

Effort: 2/2 - Absolutely. Look: 3/3 - Might have been better if the brush effect at the top and bottom was transparent so it blended a bit better, but it's still dope. Sick work man. Creativity: 1/1 - Love the stock work. Total: 6/6 Final: 6/6

Effort: 2/2 - Yeah, I can see it. Keep trying new stuff and keep at it. Look: 2.25/3 - The render feels a little squished. Try to make sure you only have the very top of the head touching the top of the sig. Text is not great, I'd stick to simple fonts and play with effects after that. Keep the text layer and the render layer close. For your stock work, Try to use things like Lighten to bring out the highlights of the stock while eliminating the low lights. Right now it looks like you're just lowering the opacity, and that doesn't give the best effect. Check out this thread for some tips: http://www.vhlforum.com/index.php?/topic/2501-jacks-guide-to-making-not-shitty-sigs/ Creativity: 1/1 - Keep up the progression! Total: 5.25/6

Effort: 2/2 - I'd say enough was done in this regard. Keep it up. Look: 2.5/3 - Stock work is pretty good but colouring is obviously all over the place. Not bad but a bit more coordination may have helped it. The small circles stock on the helmet looks out of place. Text is decent in general, but in this case I'd stick to all caps or all lower case. Creativity: 1/1 - Sure. Total: 5.5/6

Effort: 2/2 - Borderline in my opinion, but enough was done. Try experimenting with some techniques like different smudging and maybe look up some random sig tutorials for inspiration. Look: 2.25/3 - Text isn't great, I would have had less space between the letters, and made it smaller. The colouring is a bit too dull, try making a layer on Color Dodge and using a Soft Brush to add some nice spots of excitement. Also, be careful with your cuts, looks like there's a tiny black border around the render. Creativity: 1/1 - Sure Total: 5.25/6

Effort: 2/2 - Looks like enough was done here. Look: 3/3 - Love your work lately. Clean, slick, but really well put together. Great text and colouring. Creativity: 1/1 - For sure. Total: 6/6 Final: 6/6

Effort: 2/2 - I understand that gifs can be a lot of effort to make effective, but I'd like to see some effort into some different ideas next time Look: 2.5/3 - The quality restriction of the gif format hurts this a fair bit in my opinion. The stock work looks like it could have been great but the 256 colour restriction doesn't do it any favours. Creativity: 1/1 - Maybe try something a little bit different next week. Total: 5.5/6

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Effort: 2/2 - Definitely enough there. Look: 2.5/3 - Flow and composition are good, but the render could have used some better blending. For some tips for text check out this thread: http://www.vhlforum.com/index.php?/topic/2501-jacks-guide-to-making-not-shitty-sigs/ Focus on contrast with the background, and stick to simple fonts all in either upper or lower case. Creativity: 1/1 - Nice use of stocks for sure. Total: 5.5/6 FInal: 6/6

Movin' and shakin'!

Nice work on the splatters and blending. Three things that I would work on.: 1. text. Try to use some really simple fonts, Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman, or grab Roboto online. Check out this post: http://www.vhlforum.com/index.php?/topic/2501-jacks-guide-to-making-not-shitty-sigs/ for some inspiration and tips regarding text and other things. 2. Lighting/colouring. Make a new layer on top of everything and set it to Soft Light. Using a large, soft brush on ~40% opacity, start brushing white and black. White in areas you want to bring out, and black in areas you want to push back. Next, make another layer on top and set it to Color Dodge. With a smaller round brush on around 70% opacity, click a few spots to really highlight them. 3. Finishing touches. In the link I posted above, look at the last section (5.0: Final Touches). Try to follow those steps Following the steps I just outlined using your sig as the base layer, I went from this: To this: Overall, the two images look very similar, but one has a more, "complete", feel than the other. Let me know if you have any questions about the steps I outlined.

Not sure if I can top your current sig but I'll give it a go!