Portfolio Graphic Showcase - [Photoshop]

Vigilance · Jan 23, 2018

As most of you already know, I dabble conservatively in the fine art known as Graphic Design. I enjoy making signatures and have recently began using Photoshop CS6 to do so. Below are some of my pieces.

I appreciate CnC from everyone and anyone. I hope you enjoy.

Reborn · Jan 24, 2018

So yeah, you've already shown me the first 2 pieces and I gave you my thoughts on them so I'll just focus on the last piece. Honestly it seems a little bit busy to me, and it's kind of difficult to discern the focal from the background, it all kind of just blends together (which isn't inherently bad, I just don't think it really works for this particular piece). I would also personally liked to have seen the pinkish/redish colour from her eyes and the machine behind her to highlight certain areas around her to add some points of interest.

I'd say the best way of explaining what I mean is if I blur the living crap out of it:

As you can see, for the most part there isn't a very noticeable difference between the focal and the background (besides those green machine parts being smaller and the pale skin tone) and that pinkish colour is gone.

Contrast that with the spiderman tag (same amout of blur):

The render still pops out at you, particularly because of the blue legs on the mostly red background, but also because of your work on the lighting.

So yeah, tl;dr I would focus on the lighting and possibly adding some more effects and attempting to encorporate more of that pinkish colour.

By the way, I didn't mention this but it's really impressive that your first few pieces transitioning from GIMP to PS are this good. It's a good sign You know where to find me if you ever want to discuss anything.

Vigilance · Jan 24, 2018

Reborn said: ↑

So yeah, you've already shown me the first 2 pieces and I gave you my thoughts on them so I'll just focus on the last piece. Honestly it seems a little bit busy to me, and it's kind of difficult to discern the focal from the background, it all kind of just blends together (which isn't inherently bad, I just don't think it really works for this particular piece). I would also personally liked to have seen the pinkish/redish colour from her eyes and the machine behind her to highlight certain areas around her to add some points of interest.

I'd say the best way of explaining what I mean is if I blur the living crap out of it:

As you can see, for the most part there isn't a very noticeable difference between the focal and the background (besides those green machine parts being smaller and the pale skin tone) and that pinkish colour is gone.

Contrast that with the spiderman tag (same amout of blur):

The render still pops out at you, particularly because of the blue legs on the mostly red background, but also because of your work on the lighting.

So yeah, tl;dr I would focus on the lighting and possibly adding some more effects and attempting to encorporate more of that pinkish colour.

By the way, I didn't mention this but it's really impressive that your first few pieces transitioning from GIMP to PS are this good. It's a good sign You know where to find me if you ever want to discuss anything.
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Yeah I definitely see what you mean. I was kinda get this feeling that there was almost no depth beyond the first layer (the entire render since it had all the little green pieces as well). I did have issues with the lighting, mainly the whole piece being in the same pale light and the only really dark parts being the border which don't really count. I'll definitely drop by to get an in depth explanation of how I could have fixed the lighting on this piece. What came to mind was maybe manually darkening some layers with the burn tool to create that perception but I'm not 100% sure that will do it.

Thanks for the kind words btw, while I enjoyed working with GIMP, just the sheer amount of extras PS offers is breathtaking.

Mountain · Jan 24, 2018

Your spider man One looks really fresh, Simple but still amazing.

Love smudge

Reborn · Jan 24, 2018

Mountain said: ↑

Your spider man One looks really fresh, Simple but still amazing.

Love smudge
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Pretty sure that's entirely Liquify and not smudge. They can make similar effects though.

Mountain · Jan 24, 2018

Reborn said: ↑

Pretty sure that's entirely Liquify and not smudge. They can make similar effects though.
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Lol really haha

Vigilance · Jan 24, 2018

Mountain said: ↑

Your spider man One looks really fresh, Simple but still amazing.

Love smudge
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Reborn said: ↑

Pretty sure that's entirely Liquify and not smudge. They can make similar effects though.
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Yup, Reborn is correct, it is Liquify. And thank you for the kind words

Vigilance · Feb 14, 2018

Made this piece when I had a little bit of downtime last week. I'm hoping to get back into the swing of things signature making wise soon! (Tomorrow when I turn in some crucial college stuff!)