ok yea I'm making another mana sig and well I need help

I dunno to me it just dosn't flow it may be too many brushes in the BG or not enough smudging but it just dosn't look right I may need to put a gradient mask on it but I dunno what do you guys think

You seem to be going in several directions in this sig. There's not much flow at all. Its more like an explosion (which can be cool). And your blending looks a bit smudgy.

I can't think of any other suggestions than to go find some sig tuts on Deviantart or Planet Renders and just practice.

the problem is you don't have a focal point right now.. you should work on that first of all

ok that sounds good I'll post the next step in a few min.

EDIT

here it is


I added some red in the back and the moi dix mois insignia in there to give it a better look

The things you added onto the sig make it look meh imo. I would Take out that symbol and like Savage said make a focal point. This is just me but I like to keep the color sceme around the general area of the render. The red doesnt really match with your render imo.

hmm. im not feeling the new shape, not the positioning. think about placing it behind your render and dropping the opacity. as for the bg you may consider adding a c4d or abstract that flows diagonally to the right. that may help you with your direction.

otherwise its not too bad. i really dont mind the red. i think it goes well with the contrast of the whiteness.

yea I was just going on what somebody said i'm gonna scrap it completely what colors would you guys reccomend

id need to see the render first to determine. mind showing it?

ok no prob I rendered it but It kinda sucked (its only my second render) I just couldn't deal with the hair really

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and well here is a new try I looked at some tuts and played around wiht it (and changed the color of course)

I also made mana the focus better

use the laso tool when rendering.. it helps.. don't care for that bg tbh.. nor the fx.. just looks messy.. teh colours aroung her hair and the bg just don't mix..

well without the colors it looked really bland and stale

how would you say I could fix it?

first of all PM me the stock and i'll render that for you.. you always work better with a clean cut..

Edit:
Never mind...i offered to render it for you but savage beat me to it...lol


As far as the colors i say 86 em. Find a nice C4D to use, or work w/ some brushes. Brushes are yo friens imo.

ok well the reasons I want a blue render is because in malice mizer mana's colors was blue

also just so you guys know I'm useing photoshop 7.0 nothing awesome

lol nothing wrong with ps 7. its the same concept, but upgrading may be beneficial to u when using tutorials so heres waht i want you to do. i think the problem you're having is your c4d usage. if you could, consider following one of our tutorials here on lucid, i particularly recommend either rocks tutorial or hariberus. they're both quite good and easy to follow. if you get stuck make sure that you ask questions as we're more than happy to help. I prefer that you use the render that savage has for you as you seem inspired by it. I look forward to see your results