Aliss' Signature Design Shop!

[SkillFullGamer]

haha I love itachi and ulquiorra... I still think their deaths were unfair. Anyways, *_* we'll make sure those sigs turn out killer. And most important of all, we'll put flowman's art to shame D:<
(jk )


1. Font choice, not too fancy, not too plain. Flow taught me that if you use font, make sure they're centered properly, and dont be afraid to use the stroke effect, to keep font from blending into the background (you can change the border size of the stroke effect, its basically an outline), you can always download more fonts, just google them, when u download, click the font files and they'll automatically install.

2. When making sigs, you gotta make em look professional, again Flowman (darn youuuuu flow) also taught me not to throw stuff together, and make sure they look organized. look at mitch's he makes sure the colors match, same way you'd choose your clothes.

3. Don't get too flashy. and when you stamp a sig with your insignia, dont make it too big. lol, be subtle with your art. Don't worry, I had to learn this stuff as well, I'm still an amateur myself, but it means a ton to me that my work is acknowledged to this extent, so I'll teach you all I know


seems flow did more for me than I thought, lol but trying to pass him is what makes me wanna improve

Thanks for the tips aurinierro I work only to please and improve! And if I make something not to quality, I toss it and start over lolz :P

[Mitchturbo]

With practice you'll always improve! Keep up the masterpieces!

[HunterSLAYER]

I've noticed a lot of improvement from u too (: keep up the good work mate . Flow Mitch and I all started off pretty bad , but the more sigs u make the better u get. I still have a lot to learn (: hopefully I can master this art

Uh......

You're pretty good already and i would have paid you for the sig u made for me if u asked
You've already mastered it, now you just need to get better Lol.




Sent from The Vular Hive! XD

[SkillFullGamer]

lol that looks a lot like my shop... ah oh well, nice sigs ^_^

effin amazing *_*

Thats because I modeled my shop after your silly @_@, lol!
" Strange how the Shop title endded up halfway like yours...I didn't plan that...hahacomparef
But I'm glad you like my sigs! I'm still way amateur compared to you,kano,and Mitch haha!
But I'm working hard on getting better !

[SkillFullGamer]

Hope you like it, and hope this is Dark enough for you cero lolz...

[iAmPain]

Aliss = 1 month from forum = Own's/Create's sigs for herself

Me = 5 month older than her = still don't have 1.

[SkillFullGamer]

Aliss = 1 month from forum = Own's/Create's sigs for herself

Me = 5 month older than her = still don't have 1.

1. Why don't you let me make you One I'd love to !!
2. I'm just a nerdy girl from Texas.....making sigs, or playing sl keeps me sane!
3. Thanks aaurianiero for the kind words, I'm happy u like it! When I reD your name , the Sig is exactly wat I picture lolz , blonde prince :P
4. @Flowman- Ark should be having another Sig contest for Ark of moneyz soon "I saw we cut the head off the snake!!? Guys" ***Shouts at Crowd of every other Sig maker around**** lolz

[Flowman]

4. @Flowman- Ark should be having another Sig contest for Ark of moneyz soon "I saw we cut the head off the snake!!? Guys" ***Shouts at Crowd of every other Sig maker around**** lolz

Winning a privately hosted art contest doesn't mean you're the best artist...it just means the person who is hosting the contest prefers certain 'styles.' The most knowledgable and talented artist won't win every time, especially when people who don't understand what works/what doesn't host a contest and go loopy over a bunch of bright clashing colors and outer glows.

Not saying this about Ark at all btw, I'm working on something for her atm...but it's not for a sig contest.

[Kanozaki]

Winning a privately hosted art contest doesn't mean you're the best artist...it just means the person who is hosting the contest prefers certain 'styles.' The most knowledgable and talented artist won't win every time, especially when people who don't understand what works/what doesn't host a contest and go loopy over a bunch of bright clashing colors and outer glows.

Not saying this about Ark at all btw, I'm working on something for her atm...but it's not for a sig contest.

Ding ding ding :P

[Aaroniero Arruruerie]

If flow can correctly name the majority of the tools I used here, I will never contest him again. This is something i made for a client just now, I need feedback btw

Here is a trick that will make the signature freak you out.

Look at the signature for 15 seconds... then slowly tilt your head left... really slowly... the signature will appear to be slowly pulling out of the screen ^_^

[SkillFullGamer]

If flow can correctly name the majority of the tools I used here, I will never contest him again. This is something i made for a client just now, I need feedback btw

Here is a trick that will make the signature freak you out.

Look at the signature for 15 seconds... then slowly tilt your head left... really slowly... the signature will appear to be slowly pulling out of the screen ^_^

Not working for me:/ but awesome job none the less!!

[Kanozaki]

If flow can correctly name the majority of the tools I used here, I will never contest him again. This is something i made for a client just now, I need feedback btw

Here is a trick that will make the signature freak you out.

Look at the signature for 15 seconds... then slowly tilt your head left... really slowly... the signature will appear to be slowly pulling out of the screen ^_^

(: orange c4D + burnt /used a black , lowered opacity brush on the corners .you also have a smudge layer set on linear doge + bevel and emboss layer for the border

[Aaroniero Arruruerie]

Not working for me:/ but awesome job none the less!!

lol I guess it worked for me because I wear glasses... and was dizzy from lack of sleep

(: orange c4D + burnt /used a black , lowered opacity brush on the corners .you also have a smudge layer set on linear doge + bevel and emboss layer for the border

I swear you guys are a trip... It was a gradient I used. to get the black bar, It was orange and black, though the original vector was green... I probably should've told flow that too. hahaha but u were right about the color burn and emboss layer. ^_^ nice detection skills

[Kanozaki]

Ah (: , as for tips your sigs look good , however start giving it a bit of depth. Grab you'd blur tool and blur out areas of your sig .for example the guy on the far right. Use dynamic blurring to make your sig more realistic. Another tip is start giving your sig more lighting.

[Aaroniero Arruruerie]

Ah (: , as for tips your sigs look good , however start giving it a bit of depth. Grab you'd blur tool and blur out areas of your sig .for example the guy on the far right. Use dynamic blurring to make your sig more realistic. Another tip is start giving your sig more lighting.

Just made one for hunterslayer, will this do?



*sorry for forum jacking Aliss, I owe you a sig btw for the one you made me. lol

[Flowman]

Just made one for hunterslayer, will this do?



*sorry for forum jacking Aliss, I owe you a sig btw for the one you made me. lol

- Background + foreground need a depth change...blur the back...or desaturate the back by 25-50%...or change the color all together. The black behind the name and the black from his hair work well together, provides a good effect that makes it look like he's emerging from the black. Work off that idea.

- Light shining off to the right takes away all focal attention from the center of the sig where the name and the primary render are. It also appears that the light is coming from no where as it just kind of starts.

- Your primary render has implied vertical movement, and with the guns pointing downwards and only the top half of his body is showing, your light source would be coming from the bottom, especially if you're working with the black part I mentioned above. Your light source is...well, where the lighting of the signature is SUPPOSED to be coming from. If you have light in one area, it's going to be darker in the outlying areas. Since your render is very wide horizontally and if your light course is coming from the bottom, it will be brighter directly under his face and the middle of his body, and darker along the outsides, meaning that render on the far right would barely be visible, if at all.

- That type of render really needs to be centered. It has little to no horizontal movement other than the arms out, and it's completely symmetrical, so all effects can stem directly from the body.



I know you asked Kano...but I answered you anyways.

[Aaroniero Arruruerie]

- Background + foreground need a depth change...blur the back...or desaturate the back by 25-50%...or change the color all together. The black behind the name and the black from his hair work well together, provides a good effect that makes it look like he's emerging from the black. Work off that idea.

- Light shining off to the right takes away all focal attention from the center of the sig where the name and the primary render are. It also appears that the light is coming from no where as it just kind of starts.

- Your primary render has implied vertical movement, and with the guns pointing downwards and only the top half of his body is showing, your light source would be coming from the bottom, especially if you're working with the black part I mentioned above. Your light source is...well, where the lighting of the signature is SUPPOSED to be coming from. If you have light in one area, it's going to be darker in the outlying areas. Since your render is very wide horizontally and if your light course is coming from the bottom, it will be brighter directly under his face and the middle of his body, and darker along the outsides, meaning that render on the far right would barely be visible, if at all.

- That type of render really needs to be centered. It has little to no horizontal movement other than the arms out, and it's completely symmetrical, so all effects can stem directly from the body.



I know you asked Kano...but I answered you anyways.

I like it (: , however For lighting use a soft round brush ( 175 with 0 hardness ) and a smaller brush (o hardness ) and brush a bit on the silver guns , change mode to linear dodge and lower opacity (: . Btw for that sig a splatter + masking layer would look amazing

See Aliss? these are the guys... lol

[SkillFullGamer]

See Aliss? these are the guys... lol

Yeah...I guess they do know a bit about it....
My terminology follows along the lines of :
Add some lightning, a shiny glare in the southeast corner could do,
Put a high gloss thingy ti make it look.like a new car
And the angle wrong hellsings facing in relation to his output!
@Flowman - I agree with you on that! There is no such thing as a BEST
artist, each is unique different,and can be perceived as the BEST by someone else,
but I'd be like comparing a furary with a lambo or mozaradie.
At the end of the day, they're all masterpieces!

[Kanozaki]

Just made one for hunterslayer, will this do?



*sorry for forum jacking Aliss, I owe you a sig btw for the one you made me. lol

I like it (: , however For lighting use a soft round brush ( 175 with 0 hardness ) and a smaller brush (o hardness ) and brush a bit on the silver guns , change mode to linear dodge and lower opacity (: . Btw for that sig a splatter + masking layer would look amazing

[Flowman]

I like it (: , however For lighting use a soft round brush ( 175 with 0 hardness ) and a smaller brush (o hardness ) and brush a bit on the silver guns , change mode to linear dodge and lower opacity (: . Btw for that sig a splatter + masking layer would look amazing

*Soft Light

Linear Dodge doesn't work for lighting if you're using white. Linear dodge would work well with colors if you're doing a glow type of lighting...but it makes the background images you're trying to reflect light on too bright sometimes, and kind of makes it look like there's just a ball of light. Soft light gives you exactly what it's called....a soft light that doesn't block out the contours of the picture and stays true to the color you're looking for.

If you're gonna use linear dodge for lighting, don't go too far away from the original shape of the object you're trying to illuminate. Even using "Normal" with lowered opacity works well depending on the situation.

but I'd be like comparing a furary with a lambo or mozaradie.

Or like comparing a Ferrari with a Maserati!