Okay, starting from yesterday, I'm going to post all the signatures I create in this thread
I'm new to sig making (just yesterday) so don't bite my head off.
I'll continue this for as long as it pleases me.



One:



First attempt ever. I was just messing around with brushes, and chose render
at the last second because it looked cool, not because it fit with the colour
scheme. xD

EDIT: Also, I didn't know how to darken the figure of goku without losing the carefully placed shadows, or darkening his kamehameha



two:



Hmm. Yep. Need a bigger collection of brushes
Didn't turn out at all like I planned it. I made the render
myself though, so that's a plus. Overall, dissatisfied with the result.

The second one is REALLY good. Besides the fact that I'm a diehard DBZ fan, It just looks awesome. When you say you made Goku yourself, do you mean you cut him out, or you actually drew it?

I cut him out, and spent about an hour in 800% zoom doing it xD. No I didn't draw him.

I should hope it looks good...took about four hours.

Only part I am REALLY happy with is the actual kamehameha ball of energy
(which, coincedentally I made myself, using brushes and smudges and about
three layers).

And it was my first render too

Ok, I'm going to make another sig today, probably a Guild Wars one. Since I'm
a die hard fan of the game

EDIT: I kinda noticed that my two previous sigs suffered because I only had like 30-50 brushes. So I have been on dev art for the past 30 mins downloading brushes and C4D's. So far I have around 2-3000 brushes, and about 20 C4D's. My question is, what is the average amount of brushes that someone uses?

I don't even know how to DL brushes.

Whhaaa? How long have you been sig making then??


Three:




I can't tell you how dissapointed I am with this sig. Nika (the render) had so much potential...

Oh well. C&C?

Ummm, since March, if memory serves me correctly. Mostly I just get what I need from Google or PlanetRenders.

I'll start with C&C on the guildwars thing. You shouldn't brush over the face, or whatever focus you decide to use. I also think you should take a look at the rule of thirds, which is where, as I understand it, you don't center your focus, but you offset it to allow the surrounding to enhance it.

Second, I don't know if you mistyped, but what you have there is definitely not a sig, wallpaper maybe, but not a sig. A sig is just a banner that fits in your forum signature, so if it's too big, it isn't a signature banner.

Third I tend to use one to four brushes in a sig, usually just two. The brushes you use all depend on how you make your sigs though, so having so many may not be an issue for you. I just find it hard to keep so many organized, so my style doesn't use many. I only have 78 brushes, most of which are stock brushes that I never touch.

Ty for the C&C, I did originally have Nika (the Render) just a bit to the right, (yes I've read rule of thirds) but I didn't like the positioning because it made the left half of my picture look plain.

I brushed over the character's face because of two reasons:

1. I wanted it to look like the purple was like a mist type effect, and she was appearing out of the mist (didn't work out quite like I expected)

2. I wanted to experiment with layers, since my last two sigs only had one or two, while this picture had about 12


Yes I do realise that it isn't a sig but I just wanted to try something bigger. I am now a firm believer that signatures are easier than wallpapers

Sorry I explained it wrong. I'm going to post all of the graphics I create, including:

Signature
Wallpaper
Banner
Poster
Picture

KS

EDIT: I cut out the render myself (hair was an interesting challenge). It's proving to be quite a rewarding skill to know that you can cut out any part of any picture you want

I would reccomend that you start making a new topic for every new tag. It will help out the C&C precess, and probably give you more of it in total.

Lol, I just wanted kinda like a gallery to show my progress as a graphics designer.

Maybe I will.

From now on.

Hmm...ok.

Nono, keep going, i'm interested in seeing how this goes.

Ok, good news guys. I have the internet back. The bad news is I have lost all my renders, C4D's brushes and stocks, since I had to reformat my hard drive and reinstall vista. Damn. Just means new sigs will take a while to come. And since I also have exams coming up (dang nabbit, I hate exams) graphics comes like fifth on my list, right after trampolining.

That was great!

Anyways, I find that it takes some time for you to get back in the swing of things, and taking a break my help.