Appleseed

Well? I worked on cutting out the monotone but keeping it along the same color scheme. I also worked hard on the depth of it as well.



Probably the most time I've spend on a signature, over 10 hours of work (not all at once)

10 hours?! dear god, that's a lot of time.

well, at least it looks good.

Just looks bad. I know, i know, i am sorry.

But just bluring the **** out of the background to get depth isn't the right way. It's too forceful.

You should cut on the splatter + clipping mask. It does not look very good now.

For example,



Here, i've only blurred the parts on the left end of the sig. You shouldn't completely ruin the background. Do medium blur. Lower opacity. Use Burn. Why does no one ever use burn?

You have to improve on the lighting man. Using a 300 px brush and white color, makes it look too unreal and artificial. Try to do like what i do on my sigs. I didn't follow a guide. I did it on my own.

Use Linear Dodge and Color dodge and sometimes Lighten to create that cool, intense lighting.

If you want a tip from where to start, do what i did on my Prototype sig

http://imageftw.com/uploads/20110910/Prototype%20sig%202.png

Take a soft brush. Take a color, red for example. Click anywhere. Lower the fill to like 40 pct. Copy that layer. Put the fill back to 100 pct, and change the blending mode to linear dodge

I think I know what you mean. Thanks for the advice

I really do underuse the burn/dodge. . .

hard to see the render. bg is just clud. c4d are random. no flow etc...