TheChief | Signature

You have talent, I said this before in Leak. What noticed in your work is, there's no guide to the viewer. Usually your eye follows a path in the design as there is a "center point". When I look at this design, I'm just staring at the "T" and ribbon. All the focus was in that spot alone.

Line work is fine, however I am seeing some really odd spacing between the text and deco elements, and between the deco elements themselves. Not consistent.

The linework of the shadow in the ribbon and stamp look a little sloppy, however I assume you were going for an organic look. The problem with that is how "perfect" the rest of the design tries to be and here you have some "imperfect" linework. Consistency with what the rest of the design is trying to achieve would have been better. And back to the shadow of the ribbon. Your designs intepretation of shadows is using well, lines. So I dont underetand why there's "two" interpretation of shadows at the same time for the ribbon's crease, a solid shadow, with shadow line work. Would have been better if you did the crosshatch (excuse me if im wrong, I haven't taken art class since high school) method where you would mimic darkness by making crossed lines. I'm assuming the solid shadow was made to try to keep consistency with the backshadow of the ribbon on the medallion/coin.

Another problem I'm seeing is just the overall design as a whole. It's the purpose, and the theme. The Chief, would have a symbolic meaning of, the boss, the head, high up in ranks, a commander, a leader. I find it odd using a stamp and ribbon to represent that. Your style looks like it would be able to achieve that, "chief" look, if it were approached differently with those symbolic meanings in consideration. I can probably think out of the box and imagine a boss stamping approvals for some stuff, but the viewer should not have to dig that deep. It must be apparent what you are trying to convey, as "designs" serve a purpose.

Would have been nice of there were highlights, midtones, and shadow. There's only shadows and midtones. In fact, the shadows in terms of lighting is inconsistent.

Another thing I see there is a real big lack depth throughout.

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I personally love the design. It looks unifinished, and if you learn to use color properly, applying midtones shadows and highlights, spend more time on your design, you'll be a fucking GOD.

You have talent, I said this before in Leak. What noticed in your work is, there's no guide to the viewer. Usually your eye follows a path in the design as there is a "center point". When I look at this design, I'm just staring at the "T" and ribbon. All the focus was in that spot alone.

Line work is fine, however I am seeing some really odd spacing between the text and deco elements, and between the deco elements themselves. Not consistent.

The linework of the shadow in the ribbon and stamp look a little sloppy, however I assume you were going for an organic look. The problem with that is how "perfect" the rest of the design tries to be and here you have some "imperfect" linework. Consistency with what the rest of the design is trying to achieve would have been better. And back to the shadow of the ribbon. Your designs intepretation of shadows is using well, lines. So I dont underetand why there's "two" interpretation of shadows at the same time for the ribbon's crease, a solid shadow, with shadow line work. Would have been better if you did the crosshatch (excuse me if im wrong, I haven't taken art class since high school) method where you would mimic darkness by making crossed lines. I'm assuming the solid shadow was made to try to keep consistency with the backshadow of the ribbon on the medallion/coin.

Another problem I'm seeing is just the overall design as a whole. It's the purpose, and the theme. The Chief, would have a symbolic meaning of, the boss, the head, high up in ranks, a commander, a leader. I find it odd using a stamp and ribbon to represent that. Your style looks like it would be able to achieve that, "chief" look, if it were approached differently with those symbolic meanings in consideration. I can probably think out of the box and imagine a boss stamping approvals for some stuff, but the viewer should not have to dig that deep. It must be apparent what you are trying to convey, as "designs" serve a purpose.

Would have been nice of there were highlights, midtones, and shadow. There's only shadows and midtones. In fact, the shadows in terms of lighting is inconsistent.

Another thing I see there is a real big lack depth throughout.

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I personally love the design. It looks unifinished, and if you learn to use color properly, applying midtones shadows and highlights, spend more time on your design, you'll be a fucking GOD.

Wooow who cares about a long story to read too much work.

But this is just some high-class professional stuff I mean I could only give props for that and some huge respect :D

this is some high quality work you got there, i love all the details you put in

This is some dope fucking work no joke, even though I kinda hate these stylish designs I still think it looks beautiful mate! Keep it up.

07-01-2018, 07:45 PM

Bubble Wrote: You have talent, I said this before in Leak. What noticed in your work is, there's no guide to the viewer. Usually your eye follows a path in the design as there is a "center point". When I look at this design, I'm just staring at the "T" and ribbon. All the focus was in that spot alone.

Line work is fine, however I am seeing some really odd spacing between the text and deco elements, and between the deco elements themselves. Not consistent.

The linework of the shadow in the ribbon and stamp look a little sloppy, however I assume you were going for an organic look. The problem with that is how "perfect" the rest of the design tries to be and here you have some "imperfect" linework. Consistency with what the rest of the design is trying to achieve would have been better. And back to the shadow of the ribbon. Your designs intepretation of shadows is using well, lines. So I dont underetand why there's "two" interpretation of shadows at the same time for the ribbon's crease, a solid shadow, with shadow line work. Would have been better if you did the crosshatch (excuse me if im wrong, I haven't taken art class since high school) method where you would mimic darkness by making crossed lines. I'm assuming the solid shadow was made to try to keep consistency with the backshadow of the ribbon on the medallion/coin.

Another problem I'm seeing is just the overall design as a whole. It's the purpose, and the theme. The Chief, would have a symbolic meaning of, the boss, the head, high up in ranks, a commander, a leader. I find it odd using a stamp and ribbon to represent that. Your style looks like it would be able to achieve that, "chief" look, if it were approached differently with those symbolic meanings in consideration. I can probably think out of the box and imagine a boss stamping approvals for some stuff, but the viewer should not have to dig that deep. It must be apparent what you are trying to convey, as "designs" serve a purpose.

Would have been nice of there were highlights, midtones, and shadow. There's only shadows and midtones. In fact, the shadows in terms of lighting is inconsistent.

Another thing I see there is a real big lack depth throughout.

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I personally love the design. It looks unifinished, and if you learn to use color properly, applying midtones shadows and highlights, spend more time on your design, you'll be a fucking GOD.

Thank you for the proper feedback Bubble.
The flow of the artwork is definitely a problem. I honestly didn't consider it much during the process, and could also maybe be balanced out by chaning up the colours to make it pop much less than the type. I want to try make something soon, a proper artwork instead of a test, where I try to combine everything I have learned. There flow, point of interest/focus, consistency, details, shading, highlights, colours and so on will all be in place. I looked back on an older work of mine and saw that it had elements of good ideas and well-done parts, but it all collapsed when they didn't fit together (why I didn't even use it to begin with).

The artwork density I know is not good in this piece. The style is too inconsistent it feels like, with some lines, merging, some crossing. It lacks character too.
Will use baroque florals along with some simple monolines (like on the sides) as supportive elements for the next one.

As for shading, the highlights are basically where there's nothing. Hatching, with varying widths to control density, serves as a darker colour, and a combination of that and hard colour shadow for an even darker colour. This is the first time I've used hatching for shading in this manner, and I honestly didn't really like it. It couldn't follow one direction because it would look weird where I'd get long lines going in the same direction. If I had the skill and experience enough to, who knows, might not havebeen a problem. Stipplism is something I definitely will begoing back to, and I've recently tried some cross-hatching in a different one:https://i.thevirt.us/01/p7H35.png I like the curved "hatching" for baroque florals, but I don't feel like I make it work as good with crosshatching. With curved hatching and stipplism however, I have managed to make something better:https://i.thevirt.us/01/y3Z7w.png
Near the end I did consider just saying fuck it and throw in some highlights, but decided not to as I was concerned that it might ruin the dark rugged feel I wanted it to have.

On the ribbon and stamp I disagree with you.
The seal represents something, a person, an institution, etc, used to validate authenticity among other uses. It was used on official, important documents, letters and so forth. It gives a sense of importance, like orders from a boss/chief. In later cenutires it was of higher value than before (was common to have your own). People of higher stature would have multiple, like for their position andpersonal (The 'TC' emblem).Today it is not common to have a seal with your own signet/emblem. In higher stattures an parchment, string or ribbon would also be waxed over.

Lastly as for depth, I do not aim to make things mostly3D. Not everything has to be.It may have some elements that has some dimension, like the ribbon and stamp, but not the this type of swirls. A baroque one may have that to some degree however. I wanted to avoid that on these swirls, but they lacked something, so had to add some depth to them, so they're now only tube-link.

What an awesome work. Great story to read and man.. you are so good!

Very talented young human. Would like to hopefully work with you in the future.

Holy crap... Will send you a private message and maybe i can pay you for the work.

Looks like you have improved tremendously bro, certainly would hire you for work!