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goldenquagsire
Art Commentator
Joined: Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:39 am Posts: 2467 Location: London, UK
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Finally, a sig with text that I actually LIKE.
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Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:48 am |
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goldenquagsire
Art Commentator
Joined: Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:39 am Posts: 2467 Location: London, UK
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I'm slowly getting the hang of sigs, methinks...
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Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:04 pm |
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Houndour
Dragon Tamer
Joined: Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:33 am Posts: 124
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Great work. You've made a fan out of me!
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Sun Feb 18, 2007 7:32 pm |
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dragonite
Pokemon Ranger
Joined: Sun Jun 04, 2006 7:39 pm Posts: 796 Location: San Francisco
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Ooh, I love that Chaos one. Although its kinda hard to tell what the image is. Is it a big face/eyes in the middle? :S
Great work anyway. I loooove your sigs.
Heh, now everytime I see one of your sigs, I feel compelled to make one ;(
_________________ [center][img]http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/766/bunnydv9.png[/img] [/center]
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Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:06 pm |
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goldenquagsire
Art Commentator
Joined: Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:39 am Posts: 2467 Location: London, UK
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Damn, that's actuallly how I feel when I see one of your sigs. Does that mean an endless spiral of competition, or something?
Okay, I'm revising the sig a bit. I promise a second version by the end of the evening.
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Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:15 am |
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goldenquagsire
Art Commentator
Joined: Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:39 am Posts: 2467 Location: London, UK
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It's taken a few hours, and two revisions, but here it is!
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Mon Feb 19, 2007 2:05 pm |
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goldenquagsire
Art Commentator
Joined: Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:39 am Posts: 2467 Location: London, UK
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Fullmetal Alchemist FTW.
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Wed Feb 21, 2007 1:47 pm |
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Mega_Horn
Ace Trainer
Joined: Thu Jun 08, 2006 5:55 pm Posts: 318 Location: Connecticut.
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How do you make those sig backgrounds, and how do you make the text glow? Those are very good sigs. I especially like the one you just did.
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Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:54 pm |
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goldenquagsire
Art Commentator
Joined: Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:39 am Posts: 2467 Location: London, UK
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Well, the backgrounds are made by creating your own brushes and then playing about with clouds, opacity, layer modes and blurs. It's pretty hard to explain, but my advice is to experiment.
The text glow is easy. Script fu -> (not sure what next, it's definitly the second one along) -> Alien Glow
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Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:57 pm |
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SpagettiMonster
Pokemon Ranger
Joined: Sun Oct 08, 2006 12:25 pm Posts: 504
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Yeah, do you make them by yourself, like, draw them?
They're great, btw
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Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:02 pm |
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goldenquagsire
Art Commentator
Joined: Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:39 am Posts: 2467 Location: London, UK
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The backgrounds, yeah. Anything else, hell no.
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Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:03 pm |
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Mega_Horn
Ace Trainer
Joined: Thu Jun 08, 2006 5:55 pm Posts: 318 Location: Connecticut.
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How do you put the text in the sig? I did the alien glow thing and it just made my image smaller and the text didn't look like yours. Thank you gold.
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Mon Feb 26, 2007 1:15 pm |
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goldenquagsire
Art Commentator
Joined: Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:39 am Posts: 2467 Location: London, UK
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I've been a bit behind on sigs, so I made this. Oilify used for good!
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Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:24 pm |
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DragonDaithi
Ace Trainer
Joined: Sat Jan 14, 2006 11:09 am Posts: 311 Location: Bitcharoonydoony
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The boy in the sig is faded nicely I like it
9/10 its good but whats with the hand is it just part of the Image?
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Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:01 pm |
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goldenquagsire
Art Commentator
Joined: Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:39 am Posts: 2467 Location: London, UK
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Zack, of FFVII fame.
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Fri Mar 09, 2007 12:05 pm |
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Poe
Pokemon Ranger
Joined: Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:56 am Posts: 860 Location: Maryland
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:O Awesome! Dude, are those brushes already installed on GIMP? Or do you get them from somewhere? Where do you get your backgrounds?
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Fri Mar 09, 2007 3:41 pm |
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goldenquagsire
Art Commentator
Joined: Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:39 am Posts: 2467 Location: London, UK
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Yeah, this one uses custom brushes, courtesy of DeviantArt.
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Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:35 am |
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goldenquagsire
Art Commentator
Joined: Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:39 am Posts: 2467 Location: London, UK
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Haku from Naruto. Reading a few tutorials helped.
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Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:07 am |
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John Cena
Dragon Tamer
Joined: Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:11 pm Posts: 201 Location: Summerslam
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Wow, thats really good. Nice background too. Its a bit blank at the upper right corner, but thats my opinion.
_________________<center> Hyperpokes</center>
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Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:49 pm |
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Dark_Yoshi
Ace Trainer
Joined: Thu Sep 29, 2005 6:32 pm Posts: 483 Location: Ontario, Canada
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Those are really good! I have never seen such details in the background. I do agree with John Cena on the upper corner. Perhaps you could put a description or quote in those spaces, such as "Master of [insert element/ name here]. Anyway, it's very good! 9.5/10
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Tue Mar 27, 2007 4:15 pm |
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goldenquagsire
Art Commentator
Joined: Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:39 am Posts: 2467 Location: London, UK
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I tried to put a quote from a song in there, but the font didn't really look right.
I wonder when Agent Waffles will return, if ever? He had pretty amazing sigs.
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Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:47 am |
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dragonite
Pokemon Ranger
Joined: Sun Jun 04, 2006 7:39 pm Posts: 796 Location: San Francisco
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for song lyrics, nice fonts are georgia, times, and arial. Yay defaults. Some cursive font like carpenter is good as well. Try fading the edges and lowering the opacity too.
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Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:17 pm |
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goldenquagsire
Art Commentator
Joined: Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:39 am Posts: 2467 Location: London, UK
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As much as I despise using default fonts, I think it turned out okay.
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Thu Mar 29, 2007 6:24 am |
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goldenquagsire
Art Commentator
Joined: Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:39 am Posts: 2467 Location: London, UK
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*drum rollls*
I actually attempted to creat art without a mouse. Here are the results:
Psychic Mage Knight - He's only psychic because I messed up the eyes, so I had to put in a blindfold. Not my proudest work, I'd say, and I've learnt to stick to lineart from now on.
Meditating Evil Person - I took the lessons from the Psychic Mage Knight and applied them here. Closed eyes: cheating, but fun! I'm not entirely sure what gender to give this, but I suppose the eyelashes veer it towards 'female'. To my credit, these ARE the first realistic (in the sense that they're not stick figures) humans I've ever drawn.
..and some old stuff that I haven't posted yet, or at least, I don't remember posting.
Lugia - My first ever from-scratch drawing. Everything before this was done when I was 6 and from one of those "How to Draw" books.
Hoothoot - Various comments on other forums regarding this include "It looks like it wants to murder someone" and "It has the eyes of a killer". I'm happy that I conveyed that much emotion into this little guy!
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Fri Mar 30, 2007 1:22 am |
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buiscutboy
Dragon Tamer
Joined: Wed May 03, 2006 5:45 am Posts: 113 Location: Here
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I luv the eyes on the Psychic Mage Knight! But what is the brown beneath the blindfold? The picture wouldnt load all of the way. (Curse you dial-up!!)
And the hoothoot is cool. I dont get the murdery part. I think the lugias leg is a little strange, but then again, i've never seen a lugia.
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Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:29 am |
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