.::Rate my Banners::.

[Light Venusaur]

.::Rate my Banners please::.

Here you can find my current Banners that range from Contests to Requests & other stuff.
Credit to: Xous' on Pokebeach for the nice Pokemon Art works

.::Contest Stuff::.

~Current

~This was for the WBC 3 weeks ago...but there was only 3 members who enterd it.

~My 1st one like this

.::Requests::.

~Requested by: blackness777

.::Other Stuff::.

~I made this for silversnowcloak on Live Journal

~I made this out of fun.

 

[Shadelon]

Nice stuff LV, keep up the good work.

 

[Light Venusaur]

^Thanx.
Isn't anyone else going to comment on them?

 

[Aieny]

Nice stuff...!
But what happened to Mamoswine face? somthing looks a little off ^^"
I also think you should invest more in the fonts...make them more cohesive with the rest of the banners...

other then thet thy look great m8 ^^

 

[Light Venusaur]

All of the art has been done by Xous of Pokebeach.
As for the Mamoswine...I have no idea why it's like that.

 

[pkmnhippy]

The text is hard to read on some of them, and you should use different brushes.

I can give you more constructive criticism if you want.

 

[Light Venusaur]

I only have Gimp.
Anyways I made a new banner....requested by: Rangeet.

 

[pkmnhippy]

Just because Gimp is for free doesn't make it bad, and you can download brushes for Gimp too.

As for your new banner, basically the same thing I said before, also it would look better if you got rid of the sparkles covering Salamence's face.

 

[Ivysaurus]

I say there ok, not great, but not bad, but try smudging, and gradient maps/ photo filters. You can find a lot of TUT's about them, but still they're pretty good. The snow kinda makes it to blurry for my taste. Sorry if that came off rude.

 

[interstellas]

The top four are waaay too bright. Your typography is horrible and there's no flow and there's just no balance for them. Its scattered. Your one big banner is overkilled with a lot of brushes, there's no depths, flow, etc. It's like you just slapped it all in there and coated in, or the correct word is overcoated it in too much brush.

There's more for you to work on with your others. Especially the font and type, so download in some fonts and try them out. Keep in mind that there is some signatures/banners that will look decent with a particular font style, arrangement and colour. It'll also be better when the type and the image (one or the other) will have a flow with it. One of my suggestions is to try using some textures with some brushes and play with colouring. Have fun with it but the arrangement of the work matters the most.

To be real honest, out of all of them I like the one Dragonite signature. It just looks better and appealing to me out of the others.

 

[Light Venusaur]

^The ;149; banner is: stock photo (from yahoo searching sky or beaches....I can't remember what is was), a Pixel Over (not mine) & a ;149; HGSS Sprite...with #149 Dragonite on it.

 

[Light Venusaur]

Here's a new banner.

 

[Shadelon]

The pikachu one is very nice indeed. Good work LV.

 

[Light Venusaur]

Here's 2 new one's.

 

[Shadelon]

Good work, LV.

 

[Katipunero]

Really good!I suggest(not a demand) using pictures with the same color scheme in banners though

 

[Light Venusaur]

^Thanx, I make them for ppl who request for them in my shop.

 

[Northern Lights]

I tend to find that your banners stick to a certain ... style, if you will, try to get different looks, effects and layouts introduced to your banners.

Next thing, the text, i tend not to approve of the slanting text, unless it's aligning with something in the banner, otherwise i just use horizontal or vertical text, out of the way and to the side so it doesn't clash or take up any "main image" space.

However, i realise depending on what programs you use it can limit what you can do, but i will say this; when using WBG elements in a banner, such as your floral designs, which i must say are very pretty =], don't suddenly cut them off, blur them out or gradually fade them out, it looks a lot more graceful.

Keep trying and improving. 8D

 

[Light Venusaur]

^Thanx NL.
I made this one.

It's free for usage after next week.

 

[pkmnhippy]

You've improved a lot~

You should have the frame as the top layer though, otherwise it doesn't really work as a frame...
And you still need to improve on the text, it's still hard to read.