(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Well, I asked Kratos to send me a random render. So he sent me this render and I was just like "WTF should I do with this?" Since I had no clue what to do with it, I just looked at it for a few hours. After staring it down, I decided I would just wing it . So I started using various brushes to smudge with, and kind of just went to work. Then I added in some various C4D's just for the hell of it. And finally, I started throwing on gradient maps until I thought it looked good. Its not all that good IMO, but I figured I would post here regardless to see what you guys thought of it...... So here you go. (sorry if you didn't like the life story I just wrote and just wanted to see the image :p).

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I'll upload the .psd if anyone wants to look at it/help me out by making it look better so I can see what I need to improve on etc.

It looks awesome. Dont take my full word for it because GFXing is not my specialty, so I aint no expert. I think it looks REALLY good. I'd like to see a pic of the original as well, just for comparison

well its not really a pic, its a render so its basically that girl....pure, that render is really good, i can find a million things to do with that, to start off you should make the size of the sig smaller..400-160 or along those lines are pretty good...but it actually looks pretty good just remember to keep it with the flow

This proves that I know nothing about GFX! xD

I just drew a blank when I looked at this . at first (you might be able to see it), I tried to do something like putting a glowing orb in the hand not holding the sword, but that seemed like it would draw from the focal...So I left that in, just so that hand didn't look so empty, and then kinda just built around where I wanted the focal to be, her face.
As for the size...I picked 400x300 because I felt using the normal (400x160) wouldn't suit the render. Since the render was so tall, I would have had to either shrink the render massively or cut off the majority of the render, which would have made it look rather ugly. I can send you the render or the .psd if you wanna see what I mean....There really was no way to use the typical size and keep this looking good. And since I wasn't planning on putting in any text, I figured it would just look bad. Also, I had no intentions of this being used as a sig, so I didn't care about the size...just wanted it to look good .


BTW....I like to write 2 paragraph responses to everything (except anything school related :p)

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Lol, don't feel bad...when I started out I was like, "Wtf is a render." You kinda just have to figure out the stuff by reading around the forums, otherwise you will just be a lost puppy amongst a bunch of wolves .