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Here's a little graphic I made for a friend's band Sextion 15.


-Trust the voices.

Very Nice. I like the bottom left..... but i dunno, to me the whole thing looks a little neat...(as in organized) .... letsee and it looks a bit grainy as well.

-eviltoylet-
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There are some dark smudges that just don't seem to look like they belong there... one at the bottom tail end of the S that goes all the way to the left side and another just under the right leg of the big X. There's also a white dot on the right edge of the 1 that looks out of place. The flare thing looks cool, but I don't understand why it's there. Also, I get the vague impression that the X and 15 are supposed to look closer to you than the other letters... you might try darkening the other letters up a bit to increase that effect.

Oh, one last thing, I just caught. You've got SE a giant X and then tion. tion is supposed to be part of the same word, right? Well it's not capitalized like the other letters... that looks weird. I know it's supposed to be "SEX" and "tion"... but the X already looks like it didn't belong there because it's so large, so instead you've got "SE" "X" "tion" and it's just... strange. My opinion anyway.

Just to get off the subject here (I enjoy this)...Human Sheild...how did you create that eye on your sig...it's cool, that's one effect you should write a tute for the GurusNetwork site on.




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Perhaps this is a nit-picky thing to say, but there is a white outline around the entirity of the thing....grainy and one pixel wide. I guess I'd get rid of that, but it's just me.

twItch^%

He'oh!!!!! I just noticed that! I forgot to cap tion! And I don't seen any outline of anything...and odds are dark smudges are the lighting effect thing...I think it should've been a bit wider.

oh...and I am very interested in the method of creation of that eye...
(DAH! DAH! DAH! The mad post editor strikes again!)
is it T-shirt worthy? if I cap the TION?



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Ah the eye...

Well, it's several layers... quite a bit of it hand drawn. I made an oval selection and filled it with light light grey. I created a blue circle on another layer and gave it a radial gradiant of medium blue to dark blue. Put another smaller black circle in the center of it on another layer... then a small white circle a little offset from the center on a layer over THAT and blur it a bit.

Now, I've studied eyes a lot in sketching and drawing and painting and such... I darkened the top and corners of the light grey behind-the-iris section with a spraypaint, darkening it more near the corners.

For the bulge effect from the skin, I made a layer of grey and made it soft light, then sprayed it darker near the under edge of the eye a bit up the upper edge. Then I sprayed it a light grey at the top edge of the eye and just under where I sprayed it dark at the bottom edge. That's really about it. Remind me and I'll cut the layers out of my psd file and put them in a small basic psd for people to take a look at. Now if I could just replicate HAIR.

btw.. here's a larger older version of the image... I never messed with the eye.. just the blood and nail... you can get a better look at it with this.





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