VOTE: Signature of The Month (SOTM) - June 2019

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Please vote for your favorite signature.

Theme: Summer

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Signature #1
https://i.imgur.com/QCI9z3i.png</strong>


Signature #2
https://i.imgur.com/7asgM1a.png


Signature #3
https://i.imgur.com/btAmaBk.png

Signature #4
https://i.imgur.com/4TIXi9x.png


Signature #5
https://i.imgur.com/9w0W9MU.png

Wow, so many goodies... I want all. :D Thanks everyone for the hard work and I voted. :yey:

so live colorful :lovelove:
hard to choose and vote one!

No.1 of course

Voted! Could the artist that made sig 3 contact me pls? Or lemme know if are not wearing this sig? I would like to have it :wakuwaku:

some nice pieces again this month! I had a harder time to choose between 1, 4 and 5. Went with 4 in the end, but all are cool x3

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All the entries are highly good works.

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Originally Posted by Swanlake77

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In the case where there is the theme, the proper meeting with the theme is important element of evaluating of the contest entries.

Though all the entries are highly good works, but considering the point of the theme (Summer), there are difficulties.
I personally do not feel, or little feel, the theme Summer in #1 and #5.
#2 and #4 seem to be typical depiction of Summer images. I think. ("Typical images" are not wrong thing). #3 is pretty or very good for expression of Summer image.

I don't know who created these entries at all. #1 is exquisitely beautiful in the aesthetic view point. #1 also has the symbolic beauty. Flowers may symbolize Summer (but difficult to conclude. Symbol and metaphor may have various meanings and senses). #2 shows vivid image of summer, even though it is pretty typical. But processing technique is very good. Beautiful.

#4 is also very typical image of summer. On one hand, #2 has clear contrast of colors, creating nice feeling, on the other hand, #4 has color harmony, which is nice too. But the word "Summer" and the word "Summertime" are duplication.

#5 surely includes summer theme, but I feel it's not natural. Yellow, brown, sky-blue, pink, ... these colors are harmonized, or dis-harmonized? I have no ability to feel correctly of this kind of images. (sorry).

#3 is very simple, but very beautiful. Simple but lovable image and colour settings. Nice work.

#1, #2 and #3 are all beautiful. #4 and #5 are technically sophisticated. But not my fav. (I seem to have no taste of yellowish images. Just I like blue). It is very difficult to select one among five entries. All are nice works. This is my conclusion. But personally, I love #3 work. Simple, but cute and nice.

_ swan

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This not an admission test to the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. Pointing out defects or errors goes beyond the scope of the thread. My 2 bits

Why not point out the critics and good points if someone wants to @libertypo; ?
I mean it's only good for the set maker in the end to make it better next time;) I also vote the sets with this criteria:
- Does the set fit the theme
- The style. Is it simple or more advanced technic and does that fit the theme in general
- The quote. Does it fit the image/theme and does it blend it well and not out of place

And I let my personal taste behind, like favorite character/anime, because that would be unfair... So yeah @Swanlake77; don't worry, keep posting critics, the set makers will be very glad for that. It has a bit of the inactive "Community GFX" group:shy:

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Originally Posted by sumire007

Why not point out the critics and good points if someone wants to @libertypo; ?
I mean it's only good for the set maker in the end to make it better next time;) I also vote the sets with this criteria:
- Does the set fit the theme
- The style. Is it simple or more advanced technic and does that fit the theme in general
- The quote. Does it fit the image/theme and does it blend it well and not out of place

And I let my personal taste behind, like favorite character/anime, because that would be unfair... So yeah @Swanlake77; don't worry, keep posting critics, the set makers will be very glad for that. It has a bit of the inactive "Community GFX" group:shy:

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As I said before this is not a contest, so a technical dissertation it's a bit over the top. Someone puts forward some of his / her work and asks us to vote on which one we like or not.

@libertypo; Hmmm well you can technically call that a contest, since you get a price out of it, if you win (points/free card submission) Plus the upper section thread is literally called "Official Forum Contests". And calling the critics as a dissertation is a bit too much, they only told the set makers what they think it's good/bad and why, to understand their thinking, which I think it's nice!
Maybe I just have a different point of view, from a set/profile/coloration maker perspective, and like to have feedback of what I've done right/wrong for next time, who knows:hot:

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Originally Posted by sumire007

@libertypo; Plus the upper section thread is literally called "Official Forum Contests".

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And so it says! My bad then

No.1 OMGGGGGGGGGGG!!! :imc::banzai::beautiful:

P.S. to #1's designer: Could you please drop me a line and let me know if that image's from a manga/doujinshi? :please:

oh....... so many colors!!! I laughed when I saw #5... I just found it hilarious. The stock photo that is, not the work of the set artist, hehehe. @Swanlake77; that was quite the evaluation! I... I don't think I could ever take the time to create such a deep analysis, but thanks for doing that... I know it sounded a bit serious, but hopefully @libertypo; is all right too :hug: fellow yaoi lovers, unite!! hehe. and of course @lateChoco; you'd be all over that for #3 :lol: I SEE YOU'RE ALREADY WEARING IT :hahaha: omg I can't stop looking at #5. It's so funny. XDDDD

My dear fellow aarin members,
this is a monthly - friendly Contest, where many of our artists (including myself) take pleasure in participating for the pure joy, exercise, artistic point of view and other various reasons. There are no rules nor criteria regarding how one should vote for their favorite, as long as the comments are not rude. Which is not the case here.

For as long as I've been participating in the monthly contests on AF, I haven't noticed a specific criteria on how members should vote for their favorite piece, I just assumed that members voted without voicing their selective thoughts or without actually taking notice of the actual gfx skills from the entries, which made me think this was all a more "friendly approach" and avoided someone feeling bad if one entry was criticized more. This doesn't mean that it's the best option or that it's wrong to point out some subtle details we see in the entries.

As a "gfx creator" I find the voting system like the one @Swanlake77; used, the best. It is constructive and I've never taken offense when someone pointed out the wrongs with my entries; that just leaves space for improvement and it also shows me that my entry is evaluated by someone who pays attention to details or has knowledge in processing and manipulating images. I believe the other gfx users kindly appreciate this type of "criticism" and are actually fully prepared to face them since they decided to display them publicly.

Because of this reasons I ask the rest of the members not to take it as a personal attack towards the artists, we don't do it nor should you. Continue to express your likes and dislikes, we will appreciate it.

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Now, I'd like to share my old style of voting that I used on sites where voters were asked to present at least two valid reasons and the character was not part of them.

#sig 1
Has really good blending, a palette of colors that are warm and fits the theme together with the flowers, but as an overall, doesn't make me think completely of summer as the main theme. it used some nice textures, there's also some brush (?), but I can definitely see the highlighted spots which give a nice feeling as an overall and totally improves the lighting of the sig. The font text is cute, but probably the placing is a little high for my tastes.
As and overall, this is a very beautiful sig with some nice blending skills from the artist *winks*.

#sig 2
I'm not completely sure if is photo manipulation or if only some minor things where added. This is one of my reasons why I like seeing the stock someone worked it. BUT, it fits perfectly in the theme! It totally screams of summer; the characters might have been placed on an already existing picture with the sea, which can show the nice blending skills of someone OR the picture was like this and is presented like a capture of a video sequence from a phone or better yet, a postcard presented under this form. The focus is totally on the characters and the font and text used screams of summer times.
As an overall, this is pretty and a total summer sig.

#sig 3
I've always appreciated this type of signatures, the working area is more restricted, which leaves the artist with little space of showing some skills. The main focus here is with the stock and the nicely placed text, there's not much work but I appreciate the good choice of font, good color palette - summer like and the overall effect. Summer cuteness.

#sig 4
Have I mentioned I love this type of sigs?? Yep, this is personal, I like the cut out characters like a pop-up and I totally like the full impact of this sig. You've guessed right, this one got my vote.
Leaving aside my personal likeness of this sig, there is perfect blending of how the cropping was done and inserted, even if the character repeats twice, it is done in a refined method. There is also the yellow color and the sunflower added which are such specific summer elements, the leaves behind the character adds up to something exotic, but the font used is a masterpiece! I believe that this font, text and perfect blending made me go for this sig from the first moment, it is very summer-like!

#sig 5
I love the color palette about this one, I like the neon-type-of-colors and together with the stock, it gives a summer vibe. The font and text are pretty, the sharpening is good as well as the lighting, but lets be honest, the characters do everything, they scream of summer and their expressions are priceless, so there's not that much work on the bg. On short, the main focus was on the characters, they get the spotlight and the glory of the sig called "summer", add the nice blending and you get a very very simple, yet, with effect signature.

As an overall, I think no 1 deserves more prasing from my part togeter with no 4.

some really good interpretations of the theme!

In the end, I went with #2. I'm really impressed at how much the picture looks like a video still.