Midnight Designers:: Redux [GFX]

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Well I don't know your level of skills fully yet. I have a few tuts. 2 are around semi-intermediate skill level for tags, 1 is for a very basic avatar and the other is just some tips on depth.
I don't know what you're looking for in your tags so if you can give me a bit of insight I may be able to help you
 
That is what I did before I improved. Though If you can get the right touches, it could look like this(though I used one C4D)-

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Thank you. I tried to make it blend in with Empoleon. So that is why it is mainly light blue.
 
PNG. I smudged and erased it, but I didn't do enough, it was just an example on how I use to make it before I improved.
 
I don't like video tutorials and never have. When they are vid tutorials you tend to do as close as possible to as they are showing you. But with text ones it lets you be more creative to what you do and add your own pazazz a bit easier because they are more diverse IMO. And doing the exact same as someone else is boring..
 
That is what happened to me, I got tired of doing the same thing. Founs some tutorials here. Looked at them for a while. And then started doing stuff and messing with stuff on GIMP. And I have improved a lot over the years.
 
EPM years? haha I've only been doing this for 11 months. Wow feel so young in this biz aha.

Poke the colours do mix a lot better in these two. But the renders both look like they are just slapped on there. They need something to blend them. Not an expert on GIMP so I don't know how blending techniques work on there but I know there is a blur and eraser tool which are good for blending.

Actually since the majority of people here are GIMP users and I get a far better program in Photoshop Cs4 I will use GIMP just to see how difficult it is to produce my current style.

Oh and new ones btw :p
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@pokemaister : i agree with pokejosh, your signature is like paste the render on a background with font. The sign size is too big, bg too bad, bad color of font, and no effect on the signature. Try to use stock as ur signature ^^ It help a lot.

@josh : Good blurring for the background, it make the signature more realistic ^^ but it's too sharp at his head, try blur a bit. I saw some pixelate effect at his eye because of oversharpen. The second one is good too.

my old signature, ready for c&c
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You shouldn't put the text so far away especially if you are going to highlight it. The planet outline should be dimmed. It needs slight lighting, and something to fill up some space.
 
@PokeFanJosh:
Penguin- Text is a no. The light circles are distracting. The effect by the left foot is distracting. Needs better lighting and focus. Sorry if I seemed a little blunt, but I'm multi-tasking.
Pokemon- Needs a better text, or none at all. The render doesn't blend to well, and it un-entertainingly flat. I'm not a fan of the light circles, I think a clipping mask would do a better job.

@EPM: I see you tried something new so props for that. You actually made a really good flow so again props. But now here are the slops. You could have done a much better job blending the C4Ds together, color exchange or colorize alone could have helped a lot. A better render could have been used over the flat sugimori art. I'm confident there are TCG Scans with a little livelier artwork. For the Jirachi in general it's not blended too well, and the font doesn't fit. Your canvas size could have been smaller and your border should have only been 5px at most.

Again sorry for any bluntness.
 
It's okay. Though I think I did a great job with the flow. :)

I have a new example over a tutorial Gliscor did. This is what I got-

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@ EPM's Swampert tag.

This one is one of my faves of you. The render doesn't look like it's just pasted on this one and fits in nicely with the colour scheme. Only thing I recommend is some blending. Possible some of the effects over the render would do nice or lightly erase the edges.

@ Lilsparks

I think I actually did a pretty sound effort on lighting in this one. The left side is where it is coming from. And the Bokeh is there for a smoother feel and I wouldn't make it into a clipping mask. Makes it look too messy. Thanks for the cnc
 
Thank you PokeFanJosh. I think I did a great job with that Banner. Though with your comment, I could have done something with the render. Though overall I did really good. :)

Also, can you tell me if the text on it should be there or not?
 
Yes you did a very good job considering your other compared to this X).

Well I personally think text is a b.... a stupid thing. I think the text is alright but could maybe be placed on the bottom right side of swampy but idk I usually try hide mine. Kinda like the effect aha.
 
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