MY FIRST GIMP SIG....

[Jupiter]

youre doing well with matching the colors of the render to the background. the 1st one the render looks out of focus

 

[Stay off my gun]

Am I getting any better?

By darkdeathboyz at 2011-09-15

 

[azdahebrewhamr]

u are. But try doin just a plain black background, add a nice looking c4d n a render, n then just workin from there...

 

[Stay off my gun]

okay...thankx 4 the suggestion, ill try it

 

[XDC KiLLaCam]

http://www.sigtutorials.com/tutorials/basics/page/2
that will give you a few different approches to making sigs

 

[azdahebrewhamr]

yo i forgot i had this... a lot of links

http://www.xiledgaming.com/forum/showthread.php?t=72743

 

[Stay off my gun]

wow thanks, great leads...I will study them and try my best to apply them to my upcoming works....

 

[Stay off my gun]

I read some of those tutorials, practice a couple of the techniques... I don't have the time between work and priorites to read them all and practice them all in one sweep or anything... but I am trying to work with them in between the time I do have.... here is my latest work. tried working with C4D renders a bit better, and brushes a bit better, tried to work with colors and blending a bit, I have a bit of trouble with lighting I need more practice with that....anyways here it is and thanks everyone for the advice, suggestions, and help you have gave me....I really appreciate it.
here is the original product...

By darkdeathboyz at 2011-09-16
and the one I kind of favored out of my versions...

By darkdeathboyz at 2011-09-16

 

[Jupiter]

no one expects you to learn it all at once this is something that does take time to learn

 

[Stay off my gun]

yea. thanks sakura kiss, this definitely takes time, but from when I first started a bit over a week ago, I think I am making a lot better ones then I did than

I worked on some more .... practice makes perfect, just like to practice when everyone logs off the console and I wrap up on the comp and their is nothing left to do but rest for work...
so here is the one I was going to put up for review

By darkdeathboyz at 2011-09-16
and then I thought about trying something made this second slightly different version, with noticeable difference around the render and side markings...

By darkdeathboyz at 2011-09-16
which one would you guys say is better, I guess mainly about the render and blending it, which is closer to what should I more be aiming for???? thanks in advance for the responses...

 

[XDC KiLLaCam]

nice man another thing that helps with flow of your sig, look up the rule of thirds it shows how the eye is trained to look at thing and where your focals should be. stuff like that also work with some graidents and effects.

 

[Stay off my gun]

hey thinks for the thirds tips, I tried applying it to this sig... and I will start using it in future works. I just need to get a bit better...in a couple aspects, and I don't use brushes that well...any tips on that, for instance are there any kind of styles I should try or tinker with??
I can't find any good grunges, I'll keep searching on deviantart though. Also does any clan members have any like youtube videos of them doing one of their sigs??? That would be very interesting to see. anyways here what I worked on for a bit......

By darkdeathboyz at 2011-09-17

 

[XDC KiLLaCam]

http://www.sigtutorials.com/tutorials/basics/basic-grunge.html
try this it will give you some more effects to your background and it makes it easier to match color

 

[Jupiter]

nice placement on your lion king sig

 

[Stay off my gun]

thank you guys, thank you very much

 

[Jupiter]

since youre using gimp.. heres something i found earlier. it may be of some help to you.

just read all the info of that theres a ton of links and tutorials

http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&global=1&q=gimp+tutorials#/d1l6pk3