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chrisorg · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 872 **Location:**

Deleted old stuff and going update this post as I get new stuff done

NEW STUFF 1. August
I tried using photos that I have taken and started messing around and having fun heh

Spoiler!

Melez · **Posted:** Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:05 pm

If 3 and 2 are your newer ones, you're progressing. 3 is even better if you scribbled those effects. Just continue practicing and you'll get there. KIU

Love · **Joined:** Nov 2007 **Posts:** 5336 **Location:**

some of the best i seen ( 4 was crappy, no offense )

Amarisa · **Joined:** Feb 2008 **Posts:** 4049 **Location:** Magic

lol did you steal my thread style too? did i start a trend? XD

ontopic they all look nice (better then mine >.>)

chrisorg · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 872 **Location:**

Thanks for all the opinions and advice, my computer broke down, so wont be doing anything new for awhile

Noobs_Slayer · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 1196 **Location:** AioN

I like your new sig <3

chrisorg · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 872 **Location:**

Got my comp back!!! yes yes yes

Gonna make something soon

witchcraft · **Joined:** Nov 2007 **Posts:** 94 **Location:** ..

Nice Sigs!

chrisorg · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 872 **Location:**

Finally a new one, I kinda started to add stuff and this is the outcome.

CnC

ltsune · **Joined:** Mar 2008 **Posts:** 5751 **Location:**

I simply love the first one

The other ones looks very well too, some of the best I've seen in some time

chrisorg · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 872 **Location:**

Something new again... I took a render and kinda started messing around with C4D's
Was just trying stuff out, also my first not a sig work lol

ZaKnighT · **Joined:** Sep 2009 **Posts:** 1730 **Location:** home

man i thought it was free drawing i pwn u in it !

.Banshee · **Posted:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:54 pm

TrendWHORE is by far the best. Great flow, lots of effects that don't distract from the focal. Great choice in text, but I would work with the background more. Add some textures, I have some great textures that I think would go great with it if you want. Also work on adding depth to the work. But overall 8.5/10. GJ KIU!

EDIT
I forgot to mention that if you smudge the back of her body and head into the c4d it would look more natural and blended in.

chrisorg · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 872 **Location:**

Thanks

and sure, those textures would be great.

SM-Count · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 2761 **Location:** /wave

I don't like trendwhore at all. I'd like to see more sigs without obvious c4ds which are not well blended, like most of them in trendwhore. I dunno, maybe go back to basics and make some super low budget (in terms of effects) sigs cause they teach a lot about how to make this c4d mix into flow or how to make that c4d blend with background. Stuff like choosing colors, color combos, more focals than the obvious large brush one point focal, multiplane depth (opposed to gradient depth), stuff like that.

I always feel very good sig makers don't take the time to go back and learn some pretty basic concepts but rather take the time to either do what they've always been done, or extend what they already know onto someone else's style so they never become amazing digital artists. Also do stuff like touch up landscape pictures to learn multi-point focals and ambiance/level settings, doesn't always have to be sigs.

Melez · **Posted:** Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:22 am

NO! Don't smudge the edges! That's really more of a beginner blending technique (or it just depends from which to which concept it will work), but if you do it here with all the structured effects behind her, it will ruin both your blending and depth..
So, blending is the biggest flaw in this tag.. Play with adjustment layers to make her blend.. She looks too bright, so try putting a b/w gradient map @ luminosity as a clipping mask to her. If it doesn't make it any better, put it to multiply and play with the opacity/fill. Use gradient maps wisely, but also play with other adjustment layers (selective color, photo filters, etc etc)
As for the effects, yeah look like stylish c4ds, but they look a bit cluttered, and have another base (besides c4ds) for effects.. stocks, filters, vectors, anything really. Saying that because people usually shun down the 'c4d spam' sigs, unless they are done perfectly that is.
Another note, when you resize/rotate your c4ds, make sure you rotate them only once, because if you do it more then once it loses quality. It's just like reducing the size of it, accepting, then increasing the size again - will look pixelly.
The bg looks plain.. not sure what to comment about it
Now I see, SM summed it nicer..

Noobs_Slayer · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 1196 **Location:** AioN

Can you show the stock of "New v2"? thanks in advance

chrisorg · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 872 **Location:**

A big big thanks to u Melez and SM... Now I know what Im doing wrong, and I can try to make it right

Heres the stock Noobs wanted: http://www.upload.ee/image/209007/Rende ... t__19_.png
And I made a new sig to kill some time yesterday, nothing special.

DumboDii · **Joined:** Sep 2008 **Posts:** 2961 **Location:** Finland

chrisorg wrote:

A big big thanks to u Melez and SM... Now I know what Im doing wrong, and I can try to make it right

Heres the stock Noobs wanted: http://www.upload.ee/image/209007/Rende ... t__19_.png
And I made a new sig to kill some time yesterday, nothing special.

I actually like this a lot. You should work little bit on the blue lightning. It's somehow too obvious and not smooth enough.

But after all it's pretty good looking tag. KIU!

Noobs_Slayer · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 1196 **Location:** AioN

I simply like the colors ya did in ur sig it is good

chrisorg · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 872 **Location:**

FRESH STUFF MENZ!

EDIT. Off topic, but how do I get that Artist Corner patron thingy?

chrisorg · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 872 **Location:**

Didn't think it was so simple, but thanks hehe

Sjo3rd · **Joined:** Jul 2008 **Posts:** 749 **Location:** NL

Nice work man, there is some sick art in there..

TheKnight · **Joined:** Apr 2009 **Posts:** 3067 **Location:**

How did you make that Smudge for this sig:

chrisorg · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 872 **Location:**

I took one of the stock brushes, messed around with the settings and started smudging.. I do it pretty randomly so its hard to explain hehe

Thomas42 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2009 1:53 pm

chrisorg wrote:

I took one of the stock brushes, messed around with the settings and started smudging.. I do it pretty randomly so its hard to explain hehe

I'm trying the same every so often. Did you smudge multiple layers or just one and messed with copies?

Sjo3rd · **Joined:** Jul 2008 **Posts:** 749 **Location:** NL

Question, what does Smudge mean? :$

Thomas42 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:14 pm

Smudging is the stuff you do with the Smudge tool. :oops:

chrisorg · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 872 **Location:**

Thomas42 wrote:

chrisorg wrote:

I took one of the stock brushes, messed around with the settings and started smudging.. I do it pretty randomly so its hard to explain hehe

I'm trying the same every so often. Did you smudge multiple layers or just one and messed with copies?

Made copies, and went crazy with it lol

Sjo3rd · **Joined:** Jul 2008 **Posts:** 749 **Location:** NL

Awesome, if i dont know what the smudge tool is XD

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