And now for my Critique
Kybyrian
Very nicely done, its sharp and beautiful. As for a suggestion. I think the text is a little awkward and detracts a bit from your render. Your render should almost always be the main focus on your signatures. At least it should always be more emphasized then text. But overall good job.
The Green
Alright, I've been thinking about my critique on yours all day, especially since last week you said you wanted tips on how to make a signature. 3 Things pretty much all successful signatures have... unobtrusive text, a border, and a render. You have 1.5 of the 3. Your render is awesome, I love the fact that you did it yourself in illustrator and that definitely won you some brownie points in my book. Your text. Its far too large in my opinion, and I stick with the same advice I gave Kyky... Your render should always be more emphasized then your text, and it should not detract from the render (or in this case your overall signature). What bothers me also about the text is the fact that your render is covering part of it. Lastly, I think if you had added a border this signature would be much more complete... I think "widescreen" bars would have fit perfectly in this movie context.
View this sig for an example if you want to know what I mean. Lastly I believe you said you took some graphics classes, and as I have not I cannot really say... But I think signature making probably breaks all the rules that they may (or may not) have given you. As a final tip... and this is just an idea, pick 2 or 3 colors to create your signature out of, you can use more, but its sometimes helpful to use colors out of your render (I did this in my sig, and I do it in most of mine). [
example] all the colors are pulled out of the render... I hope this helps. Again to highlight the fact... I absolutely love that you created your own render. And for that I am giving you my vote this time around (I am an extreme sucker for those type of things)
Beeker
Nice signature... Not to complex, yet not too simple. My only complaint is once again text... I think you could have done something a little bit more creative with your text. it looks like it was just slapped on top and given a gradient effect. Text should become apart of the art and not look like it was added very last minutey.
Josie
Hey girl, your cut outs look way better this week then on your ones from last week. My advice for you is, to pick fewer renders... Less is more. Had you kept that spiderman background, and brushed around it. or made it slightly transparent with a brushed background behind it, It would have been amazingly sharp looking. Try to stick with only 1 or 2 renders per signature, it will go a long way into making your sigs look more professional and less crowded. Also you are missing your text. generally signatures do have some text somewhere to signify that the sig was made specifically for you or says something symbolic to the signature. No text though is better then ill placed text in my opinion so its not really a bad thing.
Random Person
I'm not really sure what you meant by that comment about original pictures.... Had you just sent me a screenshot I'm not really sure that would be acceptable as an entry for a signature contest as you didn't really do anything. I feel like your text had perfect placement here and didnt detract away from the "Lamp". I do feel however that something original could have been done to make this sig a little more then a screen shot with text. Perhaps lighting effects, brushing, or something really anything to manipulate the image and give it your own little pizazz would make it more interesting to look at. But good job. I think you've nailed using text effectively. It almost blends in with the stars yet is visible enough that you can actually read it.
Good work this week guys. I hope you find the critiques helpful =)
And yup, yup, yup I picked Ducky. She rocks my socks.
