Advanced critique

[Roller]

Rollerking, when shall I join your shop?

Here is not the place to discuss such things.

 

[L__]

I apologize, now to get back on topic;

@BW: The lighting with the purple soft brush was really nice, and how you colored the hair.

 

[SgtWikez]

From my sprite collection:

 

[PiSToLZ]

I have one tht i would like critiquing on
it is my first sprite sig so yea...

I was skipped?
SgtWikez-The 2 glowing orbs kind of messes up the light sorce and The flow is a little wierd too. For some reason the righter side of the sig is distracting me but it might be just me. IF you made that sprite its an amazing sig but if not the sig is decent but not one of your best.
Black Waltz-The second sig seems a little blank on the right side, But the text blends well. I dont understand how flow works with vector sigs so Im not gonna say anything on that topic. The first one is good but again im not a vector specialist. I have one question. How come your latest sigs are practically porn...?

 

[Hentekorino]

Trying a new lighting method. :|

 

[L__]

I was skipped?
SgtWikez-

Did my CnC not count or something?

 

[SgtWikez]

This is Frate's critique thread in which, if I'm not mistaken, he planned to do the critiquing. I will reserve my own critiques for the Official Critique Topic.

 

[PiSToLZ]

Sorry i edited my post
i was going to do some critiquing and i guess i wasn't fast enough
i needed to look at the sigs and i choose to quote so yea...

 

[L__]

My bad, I suppose I take back my critique.

 

[PiSToLZ]

wait you didnt critique my sig
no one did yet
coulc you could critique my sig 1 page back that never was critiqued yet please?

 

[Black Waltz]

I have one question. How come your latest sigs are practically porn...?

comon, most girls at my school have more skin showing than that. and that's a **** good thing too.

and isn't Frate supposed to be doing all the CnC'ing for this topic?

 

[cmpr94x]

comon, most girls at my school have more skin showing than that. and that's a **** good thing too.

and isn't Frate supposed to be doing all the CnC'ing for this topic?

Does that make it any better? Lolz, there are ten year olds on smashboards, not me not me but srsly. Less pron more cowbell. I have a fever.

 

[PiSToLZ]

you said pron lmao
and bw-i wanted to help out frate considering he isnt always online to give critiquing

 

[SgtWikez]

and isn't Frate supposed to be doing all the CnC'ing for this topic?

Yes.

PiSToLZ, you can get your CnC from the Official Critique Topic if you do not have the patience to wait.

 

[PiSToLZ]

ok
i can wait i was just saying cuz it will be hard for frate to do this all by himself especially if it gets stickied

 

[SgtWikez]

if it gets stickied

It won't, PiSToLZ. We already have a stickied topic for general critiquing. This is a one on one thing.

 

[doom dragon 105]

frate your CnC isnt that great you should elaborate more

and L holy **** your spidey sig is great and as a third

ok frate tell me about my current sig

 

[Frate]

frate your CnC isnt that great you should elaborate more

before you doubt me

Another shortcut since I didn't leave yet even though I should D:

And I still think those "short" messages are better than the average in critique board. If something isn't clear enough, just tell me and I'll try to elaborate, rather do that than elaborate at the unnecessary and obvious things (so I don't blather out 30 lines of which you know, so you can ask precisely what you want to know instead)

I'll take each of the tags spread over the day. I'll start with wikez.

Another one from my Coldplay collection:

If you have seen any high quality Coldplay or Dave Matthews Band stocks/renders, let me know. I've been cutting them myself so far.

* http://planetrenders.net/renders/displayimage.php?pos=-12371
* http://images.google.se/images?q=co...org.mozilla:sv-SE:official&sa=N&imgsz=xxlarge
* http://images.google.se/images?q=co...ls=org.mozilla:sv-SE:official&sa=N&imgsz=huge
* In case his shoulder was already black, try adding a texture or something on a low opacity (textures can be found at http://resurgere.deviantart.com) over it, then use the burn + dodge tool to make it look like the lightning slightly overlaps his shoulder so it isn't completely black.
* Line effects are great but I dont think it should stop in nowhere.
* I think you could crop off 20 pixels from the bottom.
* If that red dust is all one layer, add a layer mask. Then put a black and white gradient on that mask, so it fades out the farther it gets from the focal.
* Try some adjustment layers! The colors are a bit so-so right now.

I'll comment the other tags in a hour or so. Sorry for the delay.

pl0x:

* Color wheel. Gray, pink and brown don't have that fuzzy feeling together.
* Burn + dodge tool. It can create some spectacular lightning.
Here's an before and after what adjustment layers, burning + dodging, and following the color wheel can do.

to

to

* On the first one, it looks like you accidentaly copied the render so it wasn't transparent. It's better if you save them down so you keep the .png transparency.
* On the second one, the text makes my eyes move away from the girl to the text.
* A nice sharpen (erased in the background) can do wonders!

 

[Black Waltz]

^THIS is called in depth CnC. When someone goes through the trouble of showing you examples of how using certain tools can effect a piece, you know that's in depth. Much thanks, Frate.

 

[Frate]

Thank you very much!

Hentekorino:

Trying a new lighting method. :|

* The text is okay. It does not hurt too much, but it doesn't help either. I guess it makes the tag a bit more interesting but it bugs me slightly.
* This is a perfect example of "rules of the thirds". The placement of falco is perfect, directly out of the book. Great!
* Here I also suggest the burn + dodge tool, I would start by choosing one lightning source (either behind him, or in front of him), and then burn and dodge some realistic lightning.
* I would also remove the effect c4ds that is pointing out from his hand. (Not the wireframe!)
* Wireframe works out slim. Keep it.

Pistolz, your sig is next up, sorry for messing up the order.

 

[AlmightyJeebus]

I did this on a request, and he specifically asked for red text, so no changin that, but I do want CnC and this is teh best! Well sometimes the CnC topic will say something useful, but usually never, so this is the best!

 

[Gflare]

Because I´m curious and you know better.

 

[Frate]

Oh, do I see textures? :D
I'll comment tomorrow. I want to watch Kill Bill. :]

 

[Gflare]

Pfft, just in case, here´s a touched up version:

 

[doom dragon 105]

i tried new techniques here

to me it looks a bit armature

and some one might as well sticky this

 

[pillsbury552]

Hey from my eyes it's good, not to take over, but I need some help with this signature, and yes I know it's badly pasted.
Edit: Never mind , just tell me how I can make it flow.

 

[Weed]

Nice going Frate, maybe people will be more encouraged to try more advanced sig making with better critique available

 

[AlmightyJeebus]

OMFG weed posted, but seriously, what about mine. . .I'll wait

 

[PiSToLZ]

Frate specically said i was next so wait in line bub
lmao jk

 

[SgtWikez]

* In case his shoulder was already black, try adding a texture or something on a low opacity (textures can be found at http://resurgere.deviantart.com) over it, then use the burn + dodge tool to make it look like the lightning slightly overlaps his shoulder so it isn't completely black.

I'm not too sure how I incorporate the texture to look like lighting. What kind of texture are you thinking of?

 

[Black Waltz]

OK, so I tried burning and dodging a little more and I'm interested to see how you think it went.

 

[doom dragon 105]

Nice going Frate, maybe people will be more encouraged to try more advanced sig making with better critique available

oh lordy lord weed is back lol

 

[Bedi Vegeta]

Use the Critique Topic like everybody else.