some of my stuff. I will be adding stuff as i go..suggestions, pointers, "those suck" are most welcome, please tell me whatever you happen to think about them..


most recent sig i just made.


in a persona 3 mood since im really looking forward to it


made for Duke


siggy for knight


suggestions, pointers, "those suck" are most welcome


UPDATED 7/1/08

a few old ones ive done before, thought i would get some opinions and atleast add them to my portfolio

Not to sound like a suck-up or anything, but I've always really liked the siggys you make. The blending all looks good and they're really vibrant. Good works^_^

threw this together for my counter strike thing, its just really quick and not very good..

new sig i made for Soul Taker Devil

a year later, and you've really improved
I like it a lot

Liking the one you made for Soul_Taker a lot. Has a nice, dark pastel feel to it. The only thing that bothers me about it is the text. Generally I like the text you use, but the one you used for this one seems to plain. Not sure if it’s the actual font you used or what, but it doesn’t seem to fit in my opinion.

Looking good though. Keep up the good work, Voyou. =).

made this one last night for Xerno.. still going to work a bit with the text, border, also going to redo the stock image per Xerno's request.. anything else yall see that looks out of place?



this one has a bit more white in the BG

Background looks good (love the different brushes you used to get the effects), though as a whole the sig seems really big and a bit too empty. When I look at the stock, Yuriev just looks...huger than normal...It just looks like he’s been stretched out. The general placement of the text is nice too, it’s just hard to see it.

Personally I think you may just want to detract from the width of the sig a bit (unless that’s the size Xerno wanted, in which case I would suggest keeping Yuriev at his smaller/normal size and find something else to fill the empty spaces in the sig). The general idea of the sig is good though. =).

Edit: Background in the second looks best (maybe you could add more contrast to it still though?), but I like the style/color of text in the first better. My thoughts on the stock + size of the sig still stand though.

yea the txt in the first is the same except i added a blur effect to it, mabye ill go back with that on the 2nd piece.. The stock i am def. fixing, i tried to actually size it down a bit (its a good size stock) and i guess i just didnt get it to looking right.. Also i do believe that is the size he wanted the sig, though i do agree it seems kinda big but all you can do is make what the customer wants

He did say to have the sig that big? I tried making it for him on-*cough* about five times (early days of my “career”. They really looked horrible, so it’s no wonder he didn’t want them. *wince*) and I took a smaller sig size (362 x 132; my standard) and he didn’t seem to mind that...But yeah, you make what they want. =).

So, considering the size, I guess my suggestion then would be to maybe move the stock from the middle a ways and put it closer to the right. If you can still move the text (not sure if you’ve merged the layers together or not), you could try putting it on the right-hand side of the sig. You have this sort of ripple-effect going, so you could experiment with ways to get the text to look good without being “chunky” (if you know what I mean).

One last thing might be to add that brightness/contrast. I’ve been doing that in my sigs ever since Laguna helped me see the light of day, and it really does help make them more...vivid, I guess would be as good a term as any.

Just my ideas though.


Edit: Board finally comes back. Sorry, would have had this up a while ago...

good easy way to do this??

If you use Photoshop, you can:

1. Pull down the Layer menu
2. Click on New Adjustment Layer
3. Choose Brightness/Contrast

Then you just fiddle with the b/c until it looks the way you want. =).

rock.. thanks

updated, finished project for Xerno..

It looks a lot better in comparison to the other two. The stock isn't so stretched (though I'd almost suggest lowering his opacity a bit so he blends in with the background a little more), and the background has a fuller red color and blends in with the forum pretty well because you have the black splotches on the edges in places. The text is a lot crisper too, though it still feels out of place. Not sure what to suggest though.

But yeah, it looks a lot cleaner overall than the previous two. =).

actually xerno wanted him more crisp and out of the background like that.. i actually had him a little bit more blended in but made changes for the requester

I was just saying that from my stand-point. The stock still looks fine as it is. ^^

updated main post with a few more sigs i found that i thought i would post up

I remember the Hugo one, actually. Or at least it looks familiar. Anyway, here are my thoughts on them individually (I'd put the sigs in quotes so you can see what I'm saying without having to go back and forth between the pages, but the forum won't let me put image tags around them. D= . I'll just give the names of them instead.).

Sthenos Sig:

I love the text and the background. It’s really hard to make out the stock though. I can see the face through the black hair/feathers on the left, but on first glance the sig doesn’t really appear to *have* a stock in it.

Voyou San (sig 2):

My only complaint is that the stock to the right looks really stretched out. Otherwise I think it’s a really cool sig. =).

Suiko sig:

This is probably my favorite from all of yours. Again though, the stock on the right seems stretched. I’m not sure if that’s how it came or if you did it, but it looks a little awkward. The focus on the character becomes a little distorted/blurry (at least to my eyes). The only other thing that bothers me about the sig is the black Voyou San text. I almost think you could have positioned it lower down, or used a smalled font (or a different one. Or change the text to say something shorter. A nickname maybe.). It looks good to have that black text there, but I’m not sure it works to have it go off onto Hugo’s leg like you put it. Mainly because you can’t really see it anyway, and it sort of seems out of place because of it. That’s just my opinion though. But like I said, I love it otherwise. =).

Rhiann:

The border around the text is really nifty. Although, I’m not sure it’s a good idea to leave such an open space for the background in the middle, especially since the stock to the right is probably the main intended focus. Usually the first thing my eyes stray to when looking at a sig is the center. While it *is* pretty neat, it’s not meant to be the main focus of the sig. Maybe you could have shortened the length of the sig? It looks really good with what you’ve got right now, it’s just so long, and as a consequence the middle of it is a tad bare in comparison.



Nice work on all of these. Hope to see more soon. ^^.

I have come to pester you again. =P Finished? Not quite, I asked you if you could change something about the text, but I assume you forgot (no problem, can happen ). I find the word "ever" rather hard to read, so I was wondering if you can make it more clear? Other than that, it's perfect.