i like that one much better to be honest. on her chin you left part of a square and maybe lower the brightness of the white lines on either side of the render im not too fond of the font style either
he might be talking about the gradient map you used to even out the colors. if not then i have no idea. nice lighting.. & its a different take on it than ive seen from the others.
better! if you kinda wanna add to those blue splatters you could add a space stock.. set it to liner dodge and lower the opacity quite a bit. just adds a little something when u do splatters
might wanna change the colour of those splatters. Your whole sig has warm colours like red, yellow, etc... but then you have the odd looking blue splatters in there and an odd streak of green under the text.
That I had done intentionally to give it a contrast to the other colors, and help with her blue hair band. I see what you are saying, though. I'll mess with it and see which way seems to give it a better feel.
i like what you originally had way to try something different i would have made the rectangles smaller and clipping masked them now you have too much and it looks rushed