Bump...calling... @Guardiavoir
Sorry, I was gonna get around to this, but when I read your post asking for critique, it was pretty late at night, so I decided it would take too long writing my post and would have to leave it for later. And then the next day I was cramming in work for several hours for some contest (not sure if it can be called that) for a group on another site.
(And then I forgot.
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I am not sure how I can phrase this. There's a certain quality to your signatures that... um... well, I'll find the words!
This is going to be a tough critique if I can't figure out what I'm trying to say.
Critique
Well, let me start off with this. You are very experienced in your signature making. You know your way around Photoshop pretty well, and your siggie work is among the best here on AA.
I think what I'm trying to say is that the composition of your siggies are overall pretty much the only thing that bothers me? I guess that word's close enough.
I will use your own siggie as an example here.
I will start with the 3D text. The effect doesn't fit. I think it's how the text stretches kinda funky in the front of the hypothetical 3D space that seems off. Yes, the stretch is meant to help convey perspective, but looking at the shadows and placement of the text makes it look like the angle of the text relative to my point of view in this 3D space is not large enough to produce such an obvious perspective stretch (sound too wordy?
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So what I am visualizing is that if I were facing the text head-on, the B would be more stretched than the other letters (I sound a bit nitpicky...).
Well, moving on. The colors don't quite fit either. The pinkish-gray text is set against a gray background. It doesn't exactly pop out from the background. Maybe using a brighter color would help. In that color square in the color picker, a color from the very top edge of the square would work better IMO. A color from that range would be light enough to keep it from blending into the darker background and would also add an extra pop of color to the work.
Overall, that particular piece's colors blend in. My eyes don't pay much attention to the siggie because I don't see anything quite popping out at me.
But that was one siggie.
I looked through your more recent siggies, and what I notice the most is just like with your siggie: the colors blend in a lot. One recent piece of yours used more saturated colors, but at the same time, the subjects of the piece were also more saturated, and so they blended in.
Summary
- You have high levels of experience.
- You are among the top siggie makers on AA.
- The colors blend in.
- The perspective on your 3D effects needs some work.
I hope this helps.
