Abstract Jack and the Invisible Man

This is Abstract Jack. Because It was gonna be an abstract work, then I threw Jack Skellington into it. It's also my entry into one of the sig battles.


The Invisible Man was the movie this render was from. I was going for an apocalyptic feel and kind warish and grungy.

Although i can barely read "Mike" in the second one, both are good.

Thank you ^_^
Text is intentionally well blended because I've been told on dA that the text in many of my tags is intrusive and overly obvious.

The render in the 2nd one is faded. It would be nice if it had color and wasn't hidden behind your brushing.

fading is from GIMP's resizing blur. I really need to try ps. . .

May i ask why do you resize?

Why not make in the size you end up with, thats what i do.

Or am i reading it all wrong?

I have to resize the render because it takes up way too much space.

It's quiet simple in photoshop Ctrl T an hold shift while dragging one of the corners to keep the quality + ratio.

In GIMP, you can do that with ratio, but quality gets screwed.

Well here's an example for my Gaara signature I used this render: http://planetrenders.net/renders/albums/userpics/42775/Gaara%20kazekage.png

It's quiet large compared to my signature and I've kept quiet decent quality (they aren't exactly the same as I did some slight edits to the render)

Also for the text you kind of want to find a middle ground between blended to where it doesn't take away from the main focal point but also not so blended that it's difficult to find as then there's not really a point in having it as a lot of people aren't even going to look for the text, also placement is key you want good placement so that it also doesn't subtract from your main focal points. (I'm still not the greatest at text placement/blending either I've just recently started to get the hang of it)

I love the first one in my opinion it's the better of the two and also The Nightmare Before Christmas is one of my favorite movies

Thanks for the cc mate, and the new render


Nightmare before Christmas is one of my favorites too.

No problem I'm not the best at graphics but I'll help where I think I can Also you going to try a Gaara siggy/picture too? would love to see your take on it

Also even though I don't think it's needed I like the flow and depth of the abstract one too it's a pretty sexy signature if I may say one thing I would suggest is cuttin down on the width just a tad cause the left side may come across to some people as plain ;P but it still looks good overall

Check your PM's Mike.

Kay, thanks Ronin.

@ Madara, yes, I'm working on a gaara tag now. And I think I see what you mean on the Abstract one. I was going to make the text larger, but I decided to cut it down a bit when it got blocky and distorted.

Mike wrote:This is Abstract Jack. Because It was gonna be an abstract work, then I threw Jack Skellington into it. It's also my entry into one of the sig battles.


The Invisible Man was the movie this render was from. I was going for an apocalyptic feel and kind warish and grungy.

I already gave the first one a C&C so i am going to C&C the second one

1. The text. Dude, you have got to work your typography. Download fonts from dafont.com
Make a gradient overlay. Or give it a 3D look, by duplicating the text layer, placing the duplicated layer below the original text layer, going to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation and putting the lightness to either completely black or white, and then moving the layer a pixel 2 left and/or down or w/e
2. I like that you used clipping masks and all but don't brush too much on the render itself (i rarely ever do, except if it's an avatar), as it will simply ruin it. You want to show the render, not hide it by overflowing it with splatter brushes (or any brushes for that matter).
3. The worst thing you did, is put both the render and the background at the same level of color. Monotone looks often boring, but you could have darkened/blurred the background and lightened/sharpened the render. Instead of monochromatic colors (same hue different lights of the color), you should use Complementary colors (2 colors from the opposite side of the color wheel. Example : Green and Red, Blue and Yellow)
Check this http://planetrenders.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=265427&hl=Flow&st=0 guide to understand better
It has a lot of stuff explained

Thanks for all the cc man, I really feel I've learned alot today ^_^