zenron Fri Sep 02, 2011 6:05 am
You've posted a lot of sigs there, so it's hard to pin down any one sig for CnC. I'll try to give a good overview though.
I think one of your main problems in these tags is the contrast(1,5,6,
. For a sig to look appealing, you have to have a good balance between light and dark, or the sigs will just look boring and the depth will be lessened because their is a lack of realism in the tag. Under-contrasting things can look good in some situations, but I don't think you're applying it well here.
Another thing which I think you should work on is colour schemes. A lot of people when they haven't learnt otherwise tend to only use different shades of the same colour when they're making a sig, and this really isn't the way to go. You've done the same here(1,2,11,12). Try to incorporate more colour into your tags because a tag being "monochromatic" is kind of boring to be honest.
Final thing that I think you need to work on is lighting. You have the same problem as Sonti on this one, so I'm just going to paste in the reply that I sent to him. "Soft brushing can work, you just need to change the colour of it to fit with your colour scheme. Then after you've done a little light brushing with it, try changing the layer mode around and seeing what the outcome is. I find colour dodge and linear dodge work well for this. You just need to work at it, because it does work for most sigs. Normally, what I do is turn the layer to colour dodge before I've done anything and turn the brush opacity down to 30%. Then I begin. That way I can get a lot more control over what the outcome is. Using the dodge/burn tool can help as well. It gives a more realistic feel to the lighting".
Oh and, that vector is awesome man. Easily the best thing in the lineup you gave
.