I like the top one, has some potential

i like the top one quite a bit actually
could use some lighting and color adjustments though
it's almost always good to work towards a dynamic range in all aspects (depth, lighting, colors, etc)

Well, I tried to do the same tutorial again.. it appears I'm incapable of doing c4d spam signatures, I spam them in there.. and then this happens -






Odd that, they look different in the browser than they do in photoshop.. left side looks rather horrible, as well as the rough edges on the top right.. Going to post this anyways and I'll attempt to fix it a bit in Photoshop..

Closer to how I intended it with the purple in the middle. Still not quite how I imagained it, though.

i like the render but the effects are boring, try using some more substantial c4ds

Slept for a bit, came back and saw this and my previous attempt and I was unsatisfied, so I tweaked it around a bit and got this -




And then I was about to post it here, then I looked at it again and thought it was fairly meh and didn't really follow your advice at all, so I changed it around some more until I got this -




I think I'm content with it.. though that will probably change when I see it later.

v2 is much better, but i waas thinking even more substantial like with actual shapes

Yeah, I need to find more c4ds, a lot of the ones I have right now are horrible.

Many cool c4ds in this thread: http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=47426662&f=105

also, you should try to add something additional that you have learned from previous tutorials
that way you will excercise different tools and add some of your own flavor to the tags

+ avoid floating heads (adding a little bit of the body like in this tag: http://i.minus.com/juFSUHLBW22pW.png makes it look much better)

This post was edited by Awer on Apr 12 2013 07:15am

Well, friend came over yesterday and played nurse and didn't let me play on the computer, so didn't do anything yesterday..


Anyhow, I never did figure out how to do certain parts on Xandria's tutorial (http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/8596/tuttut.png), however, I just used c4ds that worked with my colour palette a bit better -



I really don't like c4ds.. or bright colours.. or anime, but I couldn't find any half decent renders that I liked.

Left side looks pretty horrible and lighting is less than stellar, but eh.




Hmm, those c4ds are quite a lot nicer than the ones I had. Thank you.

Here it is with a bit more shoulder, I had to change some stuff as it looked pretty horrible after doing it.