Yeah, so I'm not reading all the posts that were posted during the five days I was gone, but I will tell you that I went to Florida, nice place. Anyway I figured I get you two since ya no Hells having to take over for 5 days and all. Well, the effects are good, but your focal is just "there". I mean theres no blending. The text could really use some work. Make it thicker or larger and closer to the focal, maybe on the other shoulder. Very nice work, love the fact that you used distortion. However the light distortion on the right messes with the flow and the yellow spots don't fit with the rest. The text could use some work however with the amount that might be as good as its going to get. Did you vector him yourself?
I'm kind of new to Photoshop/graphics, so I thought I'd give the SOTW stock a shot. I've got a few more sigs I've made as well, so I'll post those later.
The first one looks too busy and the flow just really isn't there, and your text could use some work. Second is still busy, and the lighting is really off, but your text looks nice in that one I feel. Marcus is too blurry in this signature and the bar in your text doesn't really work for me, and add some lighting and more depth. I like the originality in the first signature, but the text is meh, and your smudging is really bland, some of the colours don't seem to go with each other either. Not a fan of the second signature, it looks sloppy for the C4D's and the scan lines I feel should go more with the flow of the signature, and your right side is really empty, also add some lighting and depth. Lookin good buddy, just make the text more itneresting, the colour could be all the three colours in the lines you put. Very monotone, and the text could use some work, and also your lighting could use some work, other than that looks pretty nice. Oh, look someone who's not using Marcus for the focal, well, not many effects going on around there, but I like your recolouring, get into the habit of using more effects.
good job IMO, simple but effective. good for firsts, they both seem overly bright and you need to work on flow and text. Really you need to work on everything, but those are the major problems in these two. MS paint. The black blob is horrible. I guess the face is ok. I don't find it humorous but some might, other than that all I can say is that its not what I would have done and that you don't have my vote.
Ok, I checked out some tutorials and this is what I came up with. What I did was I put in a lighting source on the bottom middle facing left towards the focal and it darkened the grunge which made a cool effect. Is it better? I also fixed the overlap on the border because the grunge made it look sloppy. v4: v3 for comparison: