HoC GFX

[DoX]

Ive noticed this over the past few weeks or so. The GFX section has been going downhill quite a bit. Not that ppl dont post, but the quality of Graphics is what im talking about.

Vampy never posts here anymore, Bruza never posts his work, Amrit doesnt either.
i dont know what thier situations are in the RL, but ive always enjoyed seeing thier work.

Frosty kinda just left, and stealthy posts every once in a great while.
Me and Bak3r both go to college and have jobs, so its tough for us to even get on the damn site anymore. That and my laptop needs a new charger, and ive been in a Rut as of late. Bak3r is really busy with work and such and has been in a rut too.

and pretty much teh biggest GFX guy. Autumn, doesnt post his work anymore either

If you guys really wanna get this sites GFX going again, and i mean going as in making quality pieces of work, not sigs that have renders and a few shitty effects. im talkin LPs Manips, you seriously need to step it up.
not to sound like a dick or anyhting, because you guys are trying and thats what counts the most, but instead of making GFX jsut to make it, make it with meaning and put some real effort into it.

And use other ppls GFX as a basis to start your improvement. Thats how i got better, i looked at other ppls art and started to break down thier work. Look at the typo(text), the depth, the effects, the lighting, the focal point.

Ill define these for you new guys:

Typo: The text, it should fit the piece of artwork, if you are making a tech lookin piece you shouldnt be using rounded texts/old english style font. Make it a color that is in the piece. not a random color that sticks out. and NEVER lower the opacity of text. NEVER. it looks horrrible when u can see thru something you are trying to read. you dont want your text to be the main focus of the piece, it should enforce the focal, not distract you from it.

Depth: Sounds exactly what it is. does you piece have Depth to it, is there a feel that the BG is actually a BG and not a flat piece of paper? BLur the BG/sharpen the focal. It should have a feel so that the focal is sticking out at you, and that it draws the attention of the viewer

Effects: Anything that you have added to make your piece a piece. what makes it look cool, and adds to the overall feel of the piece, these should make up the BG but also should be put in front of the focal a bit to add depth. effects can be added by using any filter, clone stamping, pattern stamping, and brushing(:sick: which i dont care for)

Lighting: Exactly what it says. Lighting, find a light source in the piece and exploit it. Make the parts farther from the source darker and the parts closer to the source lighter.This can be done by making a lighting effects layer, or simply brushing with a brighter color from the sig using a soft brush.

Focal Point: The main part of the sig, what ppl look at, what they fisrt see when they look at your piece. it should be clear and precise, and you should easily be able to tell what it is.

I hope this write up helps out some of you newer guys and you can draw some things from it.

If you follow this and use my ideas as guidelines, you can help take your GFX from this:


To something like this:
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1.../ElementBG.jpg

Hope it helps.
-DoX
your friendly GFX helper/guy

[KaBooZ]

And you totally ignored me and Kossick.
No more blowjobs for you my friend.

Great post and it's pretty true, it's that I've been busy to and was in a creative slump for sometime..also seeing that I had to reformat my pc..took me weeks to get all my stuff back.

I'll try to get some spare time this weekend to clear my act up, make all requests I have laying around (10+ and not all are sigs), Getting a new style to go by cuz I whored my current a bit to much and get back at it nukka.
*wants to have a damn week off from school again*

<3

[DoX]

Originally Posted by KaBooZ

And you totally ignored me and Kossick.
No more blowjobs for you my friend.

Great post and it's pretty true, it's that I've been busy to and was in a creative slump for sometime..also seeing that I had to reformat my pc..took me weeks to get all my stuff back.

I'll try to get some spare time this weekend to clear my act up, make all requests I have laying around (10+ and not all are sigs), Getting a new style to go by cuz I whored my current a bit to much and get back at it nukka.
*wants to have a damn week off from school again*

<3

my bad nukka, kossick still posts his stuff tho, and hes one of the few good ones that do, i forgot you were signed up here TBH, lol :wub:

[LiL CiTyZ HyPhY]

Me and lewis ue to use GFX section quite abit. lol but we sucked ,anyway just wach these yong padawans excell into GFX beats like you, then you will be happy

[KaBooZ]

Originally Posted by DoX

my bad nukka, kossick still posts his stuff tho, and hes one of the few good ones that do, i forgot you were signed up here TBH, lol :wub:

Haha cutey, that is okay, I posted some (2 sigs..) 3 days ago or so..one is in Kossicks H3F sig ATM and the other one is in seano4's sig.
That are the sigs I did lately.
And I do agree, Kossick is at the moment the best sigmaker here on HoC.

:wub: for you and :wub: for Kossick. =)

[Raum]

yeah I've noticed as well. I remeber about 2-3 months ago the gfx sections was getting a lot of posts and a lot of high quality stuff. I'm not very good at it but I havn't posted anything in a long time either. It was a good write-up dox btw.

[gothguy]

i make sigs and i post cause i wanna see ppls CnC and get there opinions on how i should make my work better and BTW im bout to post 1 to 2 more sigs sometime soon i thats fine

[DoX]

Originally Posted by L i L C i t Y

Me and lewis ue to use GFX section quite abit. lol but we sucked ,anyway just wach these yong padawans excell into GFX beats like you, then you will be happy

thats what id like to see, but please, dont call me a GFX beast.
I suck... Hardcore...


And i dont even think ive seen lewis post at all in the past few months to tell you the truth.

i made this thread to help ppl with thier GFX, without actually talking to them 1 on 1.

Sticky? haaha

[KaBooZ]

Originally Posted by DoX

thats what id like to see, but please, dont call me a GFX beast.
I suck... Hardcore...


And i dont even think ive seen lewis post at all in the past few months to tell you the truth.

i made this thread to help ppl with thier GFX, without actually talking to them 1 on 1.

Sticky? haaha

My mouth is sticky, I wonder why...:chuckle:

Yeah, sticky!
Ow and DoX, you don't suck, your just not as amazing as House.

[DoX]

Originally Posted by KaBooZ

My mouth is sticky, I wonder why...:chuckle:

Yeah, sticky!
Ow and DoX, you don't suck, your just not as amazing as House.

Noooooooooo!

im not as good as house, and house isnt THAT amazing, there are tons of ppl out there 10 times better than bot of us put together.

dont believe me?

www.depthcore.com

^THAT is amazing^

thanks for the morall boost anyways kabooz, as i have been called the "next house" on numerous occasions

[uncrwndking]

its hard though for people who arent as great as u and some other people in gfx...i loved doing gfx but then chaosgfx went dead or some shit...i cant really make good stuff from scratch and chaos was huge on tuts which raped...even other sites ive seen dont have that great of a selection of tuts so theres not much for people like me to do wen it comes to gfx...way to hard for me to make something look good from scratch...i just cant spark any ideas on wat i want to make

[DoX]

Originally Posted by UncrwndiZzZzle

its hard though for people who arent as great as u and some other people in gfx...i loved doing gfx but then chaosgfx went dead or some shit...i cant really make good stuff from scratch and chaos was huge on tuts which raped...even other sites ive seen dont have that great of a selection of tuts so theres not much for people like me to do wen it comes to gfx...way to hard for me to make something look good from scratch...i just cant spark any ideas on wat i want to make

thats where you have to look at other ppls work adn gain ideas from a few different pieces and put them all into one, thats what i did when i was haaving a creative slump

[KaBooZ]

Originally Posted by DoX

Noooooooooo!

im not as good as house, and house isnt THAT amazing, there are tons of ppl out there 10 times better than bot of us put together.

dont believe me?

www.depthcore.com

^THAT is amazing^

thanks for the morall boost anyways kabooz, as i have been called the "next house" on numerous occasions

Hehe, I know, those guys over at depthcore are friggin amazing.
It's cuz I love you baby *blows kiss over the internetz*

[DoX]

OooOOoo baby kabooz.....

:wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub:


Hahaha...

Stickied ftw

[Kossick]

Sweet, I am glad this is stickied. Uncrwnd, Dox is right, you need to gain inspiration from ideas other people have incorporated. If that doesn't work, then look at the tuts at dutchdesignz.com or gamerenders.com