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Hi.. Made a sig to have here. I aint satisfied with it, dont got any fantasy and motivation atm. MAKE IT CHANGE!! Used to sit for hours in Photoshop but now.. I force myself to it.

my probs

no focal, plain text

but just keep working m8, u will get good eventually

Well I'm going to start major to minor. First up, the text. Blatant white when your entire signature has a dark feeling, not to say it is on the edge, no opacity or any blending features to meld it into the signature, and to make it worse it's underlined to make it stand out more. Mistakes do not want to stand out, if you are balancing the red blood on the skull then smudge and blur the line for a blood feel, to just underline it makes a text mistake worse because it draws attention to it. Second, the skull. The gray border does make it fit into the signature well, however the eye holes and mouth hole is black, pitch black. I don't think this fits well with the fire theme in the middle of the signature and think you can do something inside the skull, even if it is not an ember, maybe more of the grey effect but darker since you want the darkness feel. Next, the fire in the middle is supposed to contrast with the darkness on both sides, right now it looks like a cigarette butt that is going out. Bring it to life! Add white, orange, brighten it, pin lights, color dodge, whatever it takes, you want the centerpiece to capture the attention of the viewer, not have someone take three minutes looking at the wimpy light thinking, oh... I guess that's supposed to be bright. Don't make the viewer work imagining the explosion to be bright, make it bright and dazzle it. Lastly, the minor things. The orange blotch by the right of the skull, it's just, there. You chose a black border for a primarily black signature, you may want to consider red or orange, or a gradient from black to red to orange, but borders really never bothered me.

The focal isnt strong enuff. Move the head closer to the middle and the text, try to blend the text in a little bit. Its just slapped on.

reK wrote:The focal isnt strong enuff. Move the head closer to the middle and the text, try to blend the text in a little bit. Its just slapped on.

I think he wants the focal to be the light in the middle. He could instead brighten up the middle as I said and maybe shrink the skull, move it to the left, and/or turn up the opacity.

Thank's for the help guys. Im not going to do something more with that sig im going to make a new SRO sig instead. (Was in a hurry when i maked the text ^^) Next time it will be better with some kind of effect.

It's pretty ok, but I agree with the points azu mentioned. 7/10 overall though