[Arthryn]

I'm just wondering what different people feel makes a sig good. What elements are important to you? What do you think is aesthetically pleasing? What do techniques mean for the sig? What about themes and the use of premade renders and brushes? I'm just curious about everyone's thoughts.

[Mike]

What makes a sig good? When people don't use grunge, tutorials, or "renders" to make their signatures.

[H.N]

I don't know what's wrong with renders, a lot of pro's use them, but stocks are good, even so I would say renders sigs are harder seeing as you don't have a pre made background.
For me a good sig is all about having the right composition and flow with just the hint of good lighting ;D.
I would also say over using the brush tool is not something I am familiar with I have actually only brushed about 5 of however many sigs I've done now, that's not including lighting and clipping masks. But im not saying brushing is a bad thing because you would be a noob not accept that its quite a use full tool, just I only use default brush's for painting now, and i really like smudgy flowy sigs.Everyone has their own style.
Brushing can be good and bad, Ive seen people who can really pull off good brushing...
Simple sigs is a whole other matter though, and that's including abstract..

This post has been edited by H.N: 05 May 2007 - 04:20 AM

[Master of the Blade]

I tend not to use renders any more.

But it really does depend upon how the artist uses the available resources. I mean, you could use some really rare resources, but come up with a pretty naf sig. And on the other foot, you could use really common renders and brushes, but make a really nice sig.

It depends upon the artist.

[Soragon]

Well, it depends on what style of tag.
For example, in grunge I would recomend low lighting while in Abstract the opposite.
For what I think makes a tag good, check my Tag Fundementals.

I also tend not to use renders anymore but I use stocks. I think, overall, it makes the tag blend well.
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[Rinion]

I like signatures to be beautiful. A lot of people seem only to cae about how many trickey effects the artist used, even though the signature itself may look horrendous. I usually don't like garish colours or sharp edges. I like soft, subtle signatures.

[Aiedail7]

I think either a funny sig or a nice, beautiful sig are good. The colors have to go together unless it's meant to be clashy. Soft colors like blues and greens are always nice too. But, I can always go for bright colors as well as long as it's in the color scheme.

[Nero7x]

Lens flare. When brushes, renders, vectors, other filters, and all that other shmut fails, head for the almighty Lens Flare.

[ProwlingTiger]

Lens flare has to blended just right though. I dont normally use them, as I use other methods for lighting.

[Tammthims]

im not a pro but im going to school for this...i think what makes a good sig is something that catches the persons attention without it being big or having alot of text in it.
ppl dont like reading text!
short and snappy

[Pasteurized]

Whats a Stock and how are they better than a render?

[mtbanger]

A stock is a full photograph or picture, wheras a render is a cut out image of something.

They're not necessarily better, but you can do stuff with stocks that you can't with renders, and vice-versa.

[Master of the Blade]

Hahaha, a stock is a full photo. A render is a cut image.

And is answer to the original question stated by Arthryn, I make sigs good. Hahahaha! I jest of course.

This post has been edited by Master of the Blade: 13 October 2008 - 02:08 PM

[Navras]

Composition, symmetry, lighting, color and typography are the first things that come to mind. The focal is extremely important; if the tag is too crowded then it's an eyesore. A lot of people tend to cram tons of shiny effects into a 350-by-150 px tag in hope that it'll look impressive... nay. Balance and simplicity win in most cases.

And by the way, lens flare fails hard. It is easily the most abused filter in all of digital media and use of it will make you look incompetent to any veteran designer. Sorry, but it's the truth.

This post has been edited by Navras: 18 October 2008 - 04:27 PM

[Kid_Gimper]

Lens flares do not "fail" at all, my current sig, the only lighting was cone with lens flares. They are only bad to an ignorant, without extensive experience, GRFX maker.