Something missing...

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  1. Lone Deity

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    There's something missing

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    Any hints to what I could do to improve it.

    P.S. I'm in GIMP
     
  2. Insane54

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    you did a pretty good job actually. the main thing to do with graffiti is overlay i believe it was (i havent done graffiti in a while), if you do that you get a more realistic look than lowering opacity
     
  3. Klink258

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    A little darker colors and some more variation would help.
     
  4. Lone Deity

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    I don't like dark colors!
     
  5. Insane54

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    a better level of depth usually needs a wider range of lite and dark
     
  6. opothehippo

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    Its seems a little washed out to me, but thats just my amuter opinion.
     
  7. Insane54

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    thats what i mean. more depth=goooood. most of my sigs dont do a great job of it but i think this sig's depth is pretty good
     
  8. Wakko45

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    It is missing a graffiti of a poptart. Just kidding, I think a slightly dark, necessarily black, symbol or graphic (not to big) in the lower right corner.
     
  9. xXmooregamesXx

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    Yes... look at Wakko's sig, that is some nice graffiti...

    who made that again Wakko? I forgot. It wasn't you though....

    My suggestions:
    • Make the bricks not a solid color, like cracked or grainy like in real life.
    • Make the Figure pop a bit more. It is also a little too blurry.
    • Use a wider range of colors (see: Wakko's sig)
    • The colors have too low of an opacity, it should be either high, or non-exustant. Use overlay I think someone said....
    • IMHO, the colors should be more linear, they are very cartoonish and rounded, wich makes it look face.
    • Nothing else except for that Wakko's sig is a perfect example of graffiti...
    Also, I know it is meant to be cartoony, but I think it should be a little more realistic. Something is bugging me about it, and I think the main problems are the blurry guy and the rounded edges... Hope that helps. :)
     
  10. Insane54

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    lone actually made wakko's sig :squirrel_wtf:

    sometimes you can get a better background off google images, too. those bricks are kinda on the big side
    also, something i forgot to mention before, the render is kinda small. unles it was like that before (and u dont wanna make it bigger and pixelated), maybe you should make it bigger and cut off his bottom half (notice how it is in my sig, there was a whole other half to the render but i just took it out of the main sig)
     
  11. xXmooregamesXx

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    Ohhhh... sorry. In that case, make it kinda like that.

    This is some really good advice... I agree.
     
  12. Klink258

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    The right side is just so... blank.
     
  13. Ty

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    The bricks need texture. That is what it is missing. Otherwise it should be fine.
     
  14. Lone Deity

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    [​IMG]


    Scrapped Graffitti, went for a film feel...
     
  15. ak1knight

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    WAAAAAAAAY...WAAAY...WAY...(did I say way?) too blurry. undo the blur on the engie guy and your name and it'll be fine.
     
  16. Lone Deity

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    I didn't blur it... I slightly blew it up, should I make it smaller?
     
  17. ak1knight

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    yes, or blow it up before you add the text and render, it looks pretty good though
     
  18. Lone Deity

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    So do you mean to blow it down? Or should I sharpen it?
     
  19. ak1knight

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    if you have the original .xcf file than you can make the image bigger without making the text bigger, then just make the text a larger font size. If you don't have the original .xcf file then you're pretty much screwed, if you sharpen it, it will look worse, if you make it smaller it will look the same as the big one only smaller (i.e. still blurred)
     
  20. Lone Deity

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    I still have the original .xcf, I'll make it smaller...
     

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