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WOuld have been good, but the render is difficult for me to make out

it is?
i think it's pretty easy to make out.

how would one fix/avoid that?

1. Unfitting background.
2. Too much empty space around the render
3. Too messy on the render. I needed some time before i realized what the render is and how the dude actually looks.

And that's about it.
It looks cool man. I suggest you making it messy around the tag (yet still awesome)
From then on you can go on fixing your "messiness"

Also i usually follow colors by what the render has given me (if the guy has red and blue on it - i go by that color scheme). The colors on the effects you've put is just randomly thrown.

Not bad, but the blurring really focuses the tag, and the focus is way small, making it feel a bit empty. . .