Sig Critique

[Guthwulf]

what do you think of this sig?

[Seven]

Have you heard of center of visual attention and the color wheel? Clearly you haven't, take an art class plz. The picture is all over the place, theres nothing to concentrate on, and the colors are mashing and trying to overpower each other its not even funny.

[Guthwulf]

how do you suggest I improve it?

[Seven]

MATCH the colors

area of FOCUS

Do that.

Edited November 26, 2007 by Seven

[Red Death]

damn seven easy up, but i like the colors but its too dark to me

[Seven]

He asked for Critique, Caps doesn't mean I'm yelling, it means I'm emphasizing.

[Kassiel]

As per guth's request, what do you think of my current sig? (I know the text needs to go, but i'm too lazy.)

[Seven]

- The Render is bad

- The Text is bad

- THe Words in the text are retarded

- Too bland.

- Blue is to overpowering

- List goes on.

- 2/10

[Kassiel]

O.o

That was harsh. What I mean is, what do I need to fix? And what's bad about the render?

[Seven]

The Render is choppy, not good quality, is distorted into the blue making it look more crappy. Again, I could write a paragraph on why its bad, but you do know in Art, copying comes first and then creating second? Copy some good oens first, do guides and then try to do your own style.

[akane]

okay first off I'm not a sig person just a artist but some rules apply to sigs to...

like try to use the rule of thirds, put the focus of a picture away from the center, instead aim it to one third of the way up or to the side of the sig.

Second the edit around the original picture with Naruto and Hinata has some white fuss around the edges clean that up.

also please focus on no more then 3 colors at any given time, i usually only use two ...to many dark colors make a muddy look that drags down the picture and with such sweet text and such a cute starting image

as for the text the sayings kind of cute but the picture doesn't match, and the font its self was a poor choice. And the text is in a poor color and location, it blends into his hair so much its hard to read, if you had just moved the word love down to the opposite corner it would drag your eye across the sig making it more interesting and it also would have maid it more legible … keep working and you'll get better (for the first edit>< sorry i jumped the gun there)

Edited November 27, 2007 by akane

[Takius]

Seven, could I get a criticism/critique on my current sig as well? ^^

Oh & Kassiel, I still think you should use borders.

[Mr. Kitty]

Seven likes them b&ws.

[Seven]

Hate the text, and some various annoyances.

[Red Death]

Kassiel i love it just make the text in a different font

[Kassiel]

I have two sigs for you to critique.

An Arbiter sig:

And an Altair sig:

I'm stuck at my grandmother's house, and so I've had more time to work with these than some others. Lemme know what you think. Oh, and try not to crush them too bad...I don't think my poor brain can take it. (I've been bashing my head into the table from boredom a lot.)

[Takius]

Kassiel, you really should start using borders... they really make a sig look more 'complete' and 'whole.' You tend to use too much effects and it really drowns out the focus of a sig, the render; I can't even tell what the second sig is... to me it just looks like a c4d render with random flashes of light. You should work on your text as well; the second one looks like Papyrus which is a big no-no (Papyrus is tacky, ugly, and way overused despite its flaws).

Basically:

-focus on the render more; don't blend it in so much that it cannot be made out

-use borders, they are good for sigmakers' souls

-work on fonts: font choice, font size, font clarity, etc

-don't go overboard with the effects

Hope this helps =D & remember, this is MY opinion.

[Seven]

I do't like the font. either than that its descent.

[Kassiel]

OK, Second one is bad (For fairly obvious reasons.) But I like it...probably because I know what it is. xD

I'll mess around with the effects a bit, and add a border.

What about the first one? You didn't critique it at all.

EDIT: I messed with some of the settings, took out the text, and added a border. Lemme know what you think.

Edited December 29, 2007 by Kassiel

[Takius]

Oh wow, it's much better now... but I still think the render should be clearer/have more focus on it.

[Kassiel]

I wanted it to be enshrouded...you see, Altair walks around plain as day through the streets...the term "hidden in plain sight" came to me, and so I decided to mess with the render (Smudging and doging, i believe), add some gaussian blurr layers to the render, screen and dodge them...quite irreversable by now.

I like the effect though. Most of my other ones that I've done using C4D are clearer. You still've never told me what you thought of the first one. >.>

[Kassiel]

Would anyone mind looking at this one and giving some critique?

[Seven]

text hard to read, picture no match, colors off completeltly, no border. gg. its bad. 2/10

[Kassiel]

Aye, but most of my sigs are bad in your opinion.

How do I fix it?

And if anyone wants to give a second opinion I won't eat your soul if you do.

[Seven]

I've given you suggestions before, you don't take it and your art suffers, its pretty simple, centralize, colorize better, and streamline it sometimes if you're going for that look. This look is more grungy, then as such make it more grungy instead of some messed up plain shit that is really bad. key points here: Centralize, plan out colors, don't throw face to paper and say art.