I do graphic arts. Rate my sig for me.

[DrunkenGamer]

Let me know how I'm doing.

[Grimace]

Frankly, it's a little dull. It's too monotonous, and there's no real flow to it. You want the image to draw the eye to the focal point, which in this case should be the eye, and that's not really there.

As for to monotony - it's TOO red, imo. There needs to be more tonal variation to make it more interesting to look at.

Sorry if i came across as overly harsh.

[Elfstone]

(I hope you have a thick skin for critiques, because if theres one thing I've learned as an Art Student, you need to be able to take the good with the bad and not take critiques as an attack but as constructive criticism.)

I disagree with the poster before me, I dont see any tonal issues, or need for color variation, because a limited palette is always a welcome challenge I think.

I'm not sure I understand the concept behind it though, Im guessing you are going off of your quote there. I would say in order to illustrate it you might need something else, right now it looks kinda like a poster to any zombie and/or horror flick. Which is great in one way, but also fairly common.

I do like the reds though, and the good contrast you have. I think my issue is with the concept.

But overall, not bad at all. Got any more work?

[fatdragon]

jeez it's like feeding hour at the zoo... Take it from someone who's been doing graphics design for 6 years and the one who designed the banner for the site. This is a good bases for a sig. the eye is too out of touch, when i say that i mean that it should be more blended and should be something that catches your eye after. use a bigger stock and fix the contrasting a bit. other wise it's cool.

[DrunkenGamer]

Thanks.
I agree it's a little monotonous, but hey, monochromatic paintings are common things.


As for the eye, yeah I didn't get enough focus on it, and it's a little choppy. I only spent like an hour on it, but I guess I could've done a better job.
I forgot to mention that there really was no particular motif in creating the thing, I just thought of the quote (Queensryche - Eyes of a Stranger) after I finished it.

But yeah, I could've done a lot more, it's just I got frusturated with it after a while.

[Cartel Eden]

I think it looks good. Nice work with it and a good concept. Have you done any other material?

[Colonel]

well the first thing that your brain does when focusing on an image is it finds the center. this happens so that you can see the entire image without needing to focus on all of it at once. that being said, when your eyes look at a face they look to the center of the eyes so that you can indirectly be looking at both at once.

thats exactly what happens here. your eyes go directly to the right of the eye, expecting to see another. but they dont (obviously). they then need to refocus on the single eye, causing a loss in the image's initial impact.

im not making this up, ive taken some classes on psychology and such.

im not entirely sure how you can fix it, and of course if thats what you intended then leave it. never the less though, i hope this helped (and made sense XP).

[dankcub420]

right now it looks kinda like a poster to any zombie and/or horror flick.

Exactly what I thought...

I'm not sure... I mean, there is an eye, and some red shit, and your name. I don't get it. It doesn't look horrible, but I just don't see a point to the image. I know it's just a banner for your sig, but... I'm unsure where I'm going with this.

[Colonel]

ps - it says eyes and theres only one eye...just a quick observation

[teenuk]

Good work, maybe needs blending in a bit more, but that's just my opinion.

[TheVM]

Hey I do graphics art as a hobby too. Been doing for atleast 2 years now. Some tips:
1. change the text, text is really important it must go well with the sig, yours seems out of place.
2. the picture of the eye doesn't go well with the sig, its like part of the background or not?
3. add some more elements to the sig, the ole grunge style bg is really tutorial related.

[fafargo117]

its an excellent job, although it feels like its missing something to the right of the eye...a lot of open space that doesn't really do much...

although it does draw attention to the eye immediately, don't add anything that will draw attention to anything else first.