Patchy's Sigworks
 

Hi! I'm new in this place and honestly I been lurking around here for a while so I decided to create my gallery.

I'm kinda new in Photoshopping (about 2 mos or less) but I'm always reading some tuts and other stuffs, and experimenting some style is surely fun.


ok stop the Intro here are some of my artworks, I promised to add more as time comes.













The safe version of the K-on sigs are located at the K-on sig req. thread
The safe version of the Umineko sigs are located at the Umineko sig req. thread

(I'll fixed this thread soon)

Yeah, I have seen some of those in use around here. :)

Nice work on the sigs, btw.

Welcome to FC too while am at it! :D

Welcome to Fan Creations! :D
I really like how your sigs are blended really well..anyway..

Welcome cookies are served ;)

you really make your own thread...... hahahah


Welcome to the FC...........


waiting for your other creations.. its all great sigs ^_^

tnx for the welcoming me




and for the first update :heh:

Ritsu

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/8807/ritsu1n.png

http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/7462/ritsu2.png

Welcome to the fan-creation subforum, Patchy san. That's some good work than you have here, following the same style.

oh! tnx. yup I'm focusing at the same style at the moment, once I became used to it I'll change my style bit by bit.

Welcome to Fan Creation :D

love most of you work ..This my Favorite +Cookies ~

Welcome to the FC family, Patchy! :)

First of all, that is a really nice banner..., but it's way too huge in filesize. You could have just made it a JPG; the way it is now any potential visitor is already finished with looking at the sigs in the spoiler tag by the time that banner loads. :p

The sigs are really nice for such a short Photoshopping time, good job on that. Variety is lacking a little, though I can understand you're still getting used to PS yet. Well, good luck with any future projects and enjoy your stay in FC.

Welcome to AS! Glad to see another C4D'r around. There is definitely room for improvement on all our sigs but I can see you have a lot of potential. You need to improve on blending your render to the canvas. Most of your work shows the lack of blending but C4D is not a style that is easy. For choosing this as your first style within the two months of using PS, I say you're on your way to becoming a great sig maker. Another thing is since you're working with C4D's, make sure you don't over saturate your canvas with fractals. Keep it clean and simple with style. It's about presentation and not showing off that you can use it. Keep up the great work. I look forward to seeing more of it.

Welcome to to Fan Creation.
You got quite amazing Sigs, for so short time period. I love most of them.
Keep up good work ;)

BTW this one is my favorite:

tnx for the +cookies yum :D

tnx for the tip maybe after completing the K-on sigs I'll try to create another style. Oh! and the banner I'll fixed it soon :D

another veteran right? tnx for the tip and also glad to see a c4d'r also :D (are there any c4d groups here lol. yup I'll try to not over saturated it since it's kinda awkward, though sometimes accident occur when I adjusted the light by soft lighting and it'll became saturated a bit :heh: , again tnx for the tip big bro.

oh thanks I also love the Ritsu sig, maybe I'm just experimenting too much and luckily some of them resulted in a good way

thanks yup I'll post more soon :D

Little update

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/2071/mugi2copy.png

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/1238/mugi1copy.png

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/2071/mugi2copy.png
Nice color choice for the fore and background. Right side C4D is a bit strong since the left side doesn't have big chunks of purple. Lighting looks proportionate to the C4D usage which is key to a well balance C4D sig. I'm not familiar with the render, but does she actually have that light blue clover looking tattoo on her left cheek? If she does, it might have been clever of you to change the color of it and compliment the C4D color. Her guitar looks a bit lonely. You might want to consider wrapping some of the C4D lining around it. Give it that extra touch to rock on with the presentation of your sig. Blending is better on this one. Last thing is the border. It really throws off the sig. It's just a black (3px?) border which is very bland. Might want to try changing the settings on it like overlay or soft light. See if that will help.

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/1238/mugi1copy.png
This one seems to have a similar background in terms of the fractal pattern. I think a little too much C4D was used on the foreground and the purple right by her left hand is out of place compared to the rest of the colors. I do like the flower addition plus musical measures. Adds a bit of character to the presentation since the render is playing the keyboard. C4D around her stomach is a bit too flashy and kind of clashes with the musical measure. It would be nice to actually continue the musical measure to the right side of the canvas and replace the random C4D lines you have there. You can see it's not consistent with rest of your C4D work. Black border is killing it again lol. Try playing with the settings to see if you can get a nice final effect.

These are better than your past sigs. Keep up the great work.

lol yup ther guitar really looks lonely I want to add some swirls on the guitar/piano part a bit. Tnx for the tip for this one.... we had the same idea to what is to add...




I will try to lessen the c4d effects a bit, I found that sometimes not overkilling the sig by using more c4d will result to a much better results, I'll try to adjust and harmonized the brush + c4d to make a better result next time. again tnx for the tip big bro. :heh:

These are better than your past sigs. Keep up the great work.

Another Little update

I've try to test if I can survive without using the shattered render c4d that I'm using in my background of the previous K-on sig and these were the results

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/5817/bern2.png

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/295/bern.png

There are safe versions of these 2 at the Umineko sig req.thread

Well you have to use more that one C4D fractal lol. There are far better ones out there to be used. Try not to stick to one or two.

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/295/bern.png
Well lets start on this one shall we? Blue and black colors compliment your render very well. Looks like the C4D fractals are shooting up her dress +1 for that. Careful with the lighting since you have a high concentration of lighting coming from the bottom of the canvas, you don't want to have another light source that is strong at the opposite end. There is some room for the bg fractals and the ones floating around her to be a little bit more vibrant to breath some new life into your presentation. Keep working around this style and improve on it.

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/5817/bern2.png
Well this one is a bit over saturated with the flower pack C4D fractals. I do like the splash of C4D below your render. That's a nice touch as well as the vibrant colors. Upper left hand corner of the canvas has a black hole lol. It's okay, it happens. Might want to revise this one a bit by reducing the saturation.

lol agree with sometimes it's boring to use only 1 c4d style.... I'm currently searching for those nice c4d/fractals that can be used as a nice background (c4d hunting ;) )

ok back with the topic, hmmm yup I didn't focus enough lighting on the upper part just like the previous sig since it will become tad too bright since of dual light source, I just bring out a bit light for glowing effects. Yup I tried to blend those small 2 bit effects in a lighten manner to add a glowing effect only adjust the contrast/brightness of them near the character to add a sparkling presentation.


hehe the bottom part was just a huge coincidence, I just drag out some c4d and blend it in a double option (one with linear dodge and the other to overlay to give it a dark/light manner. Now that I'm staring it after 10 secs. yup it's really satured too much maybe bec. of the violet/purple gradient layer that was blended in soft light.


again tnx for the tip big bro.. ;) will work and experiment some more

Little update

Lambdadelta

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/2757/lambdat.png

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/9753/lambda2.png

using various c4d I think it turned out well :D


safe versions at Umineko req. thread again

One more thing to add to this whole light business. Never sacrifice too much detail for some lighting, it really doesn't pay off (as shown in the first sig). Better to pick an eraser tool and be selective about what glows, where and how much it does. It's usual to leave the hair glowing and delete the bright parts on faces and skin generally, making eyes stand out, enhance clothing colors and stuff like that.

Gotta say, the second sig is much nicer to look at. Really like that one. :)

Yup agree with you but since I'm kinda laidback when I created the first one I said to myself while I'm creating the 2nd version I'll improved it a lot better and voila... It turned out that way :D

compare and contrast

tweak the lamda a bit

New version
http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/5044/lamda.png

Old version
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/2757/lambdat.png


I partly dimmed the 2nd version and that's the result....


will post more after a while

Beatrice update

http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/5889/beato1.png

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/9878/beato2d.png

Wow. I like the colors that was used. They really blend well with the images of the characters that was cropped. Keep up the good work. >:3

lol tnx though I don't use a crop tool to edit the characters, I've just rendered it from a source pic. :D

I'm being rusty not handling my PS for just 3 days errr :frustrated:

here's some new creations (Ange from Umineko + 1 Mio sig of K-on)

http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/3245/ange1.png

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/8724/ange2q.png


Mio (just a request)

http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/5157/mio3i.png

another rework for Ange, I'm not satisfied last time for the red one.

http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/1313/ange3.png

and a request for a Yui

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/3760/yui4.png

SOTM entries

it's my first time to join the contest in this forum so I'm still nervous about it.

Version 1 [Messy job, I don't have motivation to work when I'm doing this]

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/8373/seifuku.jpg


Version 2 [This time I'm back to my normal self, though I still want to improve this one]

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/6516/sotm.jpg

Great Sig for Yui ..:love:

keep up the good work Patchy-san :blush:

thanks I will work hard to do and to experiment more :D

Wow not bad. I like your style, keep up the good work. :cool:

All of your sigs are awesome. They are like HD sigs, welcome!

nice works... they look so shiny :D colors are well balanced and BG looks realy well applied with render.

I would like to know to do signs in this style, but I am bad in it :D
Arghh!! Gonna learn it someday :D

Anyway, continue doing like this... I hope to see some new nice, shiny works soon :D

- Cookies for your nice works :D

tnx I'm really focusing on that style as of now though I also want to change and to discover some new tricks ;)

lol I also don't know why they're resulted in such a way. Anyway tnx so much.

lol you can do it, with the improvements you made I think it'll be easy for you to make a shiny sig too :heh:

TEACH MEEEE!!! :D just kidding

1 question, for BG you use C4D or some kind of brushes, or if not any of those, than what?? :D

yup they're c4d, I'm only adding some brushes to make it more beautiful I guess, oh and for the sotm entry I've used an anime bg, using the clone stamp I clone the cherry blossoms and the moon :D

New works (they're all requests from the K-on thread)

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/6704/yui5.png

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/9294/mugi3.png



and a request for an ef sig

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/6483/yuuko.png

Why is this my first visit to your gallery? It's awesome!

I'm incredibly sorry for the late....visit? welcome? Anyways, you have some seriously great works here. Your work with C4Ds is sooo much better than mine, I don't think I'll ever understand them properly :P

Your current signature, the Ange V2 signature, is perfect. Lighting is great, as well as the colours. One thing that is a little 'iffy' with me is the text. The 'A' and 'U' just don't seem right to me; they tend to draw my eyes away from Ange. Nothing important though.

Keep up the great work, and I promise to visit more often :) +cookies

I'm still not good when it comes to c4d, I think it's a fluke that they're resulting in that way. :D Still practicing since the only c4d I'm frequently and always using is the shattered one, so I'm practicing to change the habit of using that particular c4d. Anyway I'm bad at font/text styling so bear with it for a while :heh:

tnx for the comment and visit