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While I was waiting for my mother to finish checking a Malay Paper that I did, I had a sudden inspiration to create a signature. Well, I was browsing a forum and came across a signature that looks nice, so that’s where the inspiration came from.

Rendering was troublesome and so was searching for a render on the net, so I just used what renders I have.

Render taken from PlanetRenders.

Creating this was much more troublesome than I originally thought. I had quite a few problems along the way, the blending of the render with the background was especially troublesome, but I somehow managed to pull through.

Here’s the gist of the steps.
The background is mostly made up of a couple of Grunge brushes with distorted images of the render on Color Dodge on top of the brushes. Duplicates of the render on top of one another with different filters and on Overlay at different opacities and added a lighting effect. The first version was finished with a Color Balance adjustment layer. The second version also had a Color Balance adjustment layer, but underneath that layer was a white background set on Saturation.

I’m quite pleased with the overall outcome. It wasn’t really what I had in mind but it turned out pretty nicely. I’ve improved, I’d say. But that may just be luck.

Added this to the Gallery.

Well, time to study…..again.

Well, what do you know? It’s another signature. This time it’s Lightning from Final Fantasy XIII.

This one is really simple and plain.

To be honest, I think this signature is not nice at all. Lightning doesn’t blend in with the background one bit. I thought of changing the whole background altogether but was too lazy. I also wanted to just delete it, but thought the better of it. Might as well ‘complete’ it because I don’t really like to let things go unfinished.

Added this to the Gallery as well.

What’s this? Another signature after only a few hours?!
Haha, I must be full of motivation today, specifically for making signatures.

This signature was done in a very short amount of time because it’s really very simple.

Two versions; one with Cloud alone and the other featuring Zack as well. I thought that there was too much free space on version one, so I inserted Zack there to cover it up. The outcome didn’t turn out that well though, that’s why I didn’t deleted version one. Overall, I’m still not too pleased with the outcome though, it looks too plain.

Hmm…let’s see if I’m up for more signatures…

Added both versions to the Gallery.

I believe the last time I made a signature was in February. After that, my motivation of making another one seemed to have declined. Well, yesterday, all of a sudden (key word: sudden), my motivation flared, for reasons still unknown.

But reasons don’t matter. What matters is that I still haven’t forgotten how to make a signature.

There you have it, a signature featuring Sora from Kingdom Hearts II. I still think that something’s not quite right with the outcome but in general, I think it’s okay. Design’s pretty simple; just mainly used brushes and toggled around with the render here and there.

The render’s not mine this time. I took it from PlanetRenders.

I had wanted to create more signatures but maybe I’ll do it if I have some free time later or tomorrow. Lazy as I may be, I know my priorities, so I think I should start my revision now.

Added this to the Gallery too.