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How long have you been Designing?
I found out about Adobe Photoshop at the age of 10, but at that time I really didn't learn it. I found brushes and thats basically what I did to edit. I took downloaded brushes and put them onto a picture made with the gradient tool and then I put a maple character or similar in it. Nothing big.
Although, this spring, I really kinda got into it and put more work into what I do, and that results in better graphics, of course. Now I'm more proud of my works than I've ever been. I also work in Cinema 4D and Adobe After Effects, not as much though.

Why would you choose me?
Because I'm an enthusiastic designer. I love designing, and I tend to do it a lot. I'm really active here, I love this community, as I've been here for about a year and a half I've found this to be a second family of mine. To help this community out and to design is like a dream to me. I have actually dreamt about it. No kidding. o_o''
I try to put a lot of thought and effort into my work, and I always appreciate criticism and use it to enhance my skills, so that I can become a better artist.


Past GFX experiences~
I am familiar with designing maplestory UI. I had my own server a couple of years ago, which I held privately for me and my friends. One of my main objects was to add a lot of customization. I never learned anything with map-making, as I closed the server while getting interest for it. But I did use HaRepacker a lot to edit the UI of the game. Ex, I changed login screen, the hp/mp/exp bars, the inventory, the cs/mts buttons and some more.

Examples of my works;

More pictures upcoming...:

--First update, 2 of November 2011------------------

--Second Update, 3 of November 2011-----------------

--Third Update, 5th of November 2011-----------------

--Fourth Update, 6th of November 2011----------------


--Fifth Update, 6th of November 2011-----------------

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Spoiler:

These are some footage edits, which I'm currently quite new to.
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/4286/tsunamiinthedesert.jpg
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/2215/mammal.jpg

^ Yeah, I did make that last one for my mom. I gave it as a birthday present. :)

I like your signatures.
A lot.
The footage edits are really nice too. :)

It's short and sweet.

Lethologic wrote:I like your signatures.
A lot.
The footage edits are really nice too. :)

Thanks a lot Zack! :D

Your work is nice. I think you would be a good GFX. :]

Good luck on getting it Calle ~

EUROPRIDE. <3

I love your attitude. Persistent, positive, and actually taking people's criticism well. ^____^
I enjoy looking at your works, they're very creative and PRETTY.
But, there's still room to improve.

I'd love to see you as a GFX.

Please put a poll on your application.
You have a nice personality.
However, your graphics can improve and I know you can improve.

Try working on typography, text placement, and color schemes.
(This is an opinion thing, but try to work less around round borders. Round borders to me, fit more ~*~kawaii cutesy~*~ stuff rather than some of your dark-er signatures.)
Oh and uhh lighting if that's possible. With Maple graphics it's not really a big deal so.. yeah. It will make things more interesting and dynamic.

Calle! Yay :D
Your work is awesome, personality as well!
As Andy said, do work on typography,placement and color!
Perhaps make the angle of the round borders smaller, get what I'm sayin?
It can change sizes depending on the mood you're trying to achieve, don't you think? :)
Well, good luck! <3

Thanks a lot guys! :D <3

Adam; OH YEAAH! :D

Andy; I forgot the poll, added now though :)
And yeah, I can actually agree with what you're saying. The point of my round borders have been to give a more smooth feeling, but I can see what you mean.

Jae; I definately see what you mean with the borders. Thanks! :) <3

I enjoy your graphics (: I'm sure you would make a great Gfx designer~

Thank you very much! :)


New sig! :)
Currently my external harddrive with a lot of editing items is on repair, so this one is made entirely by putting together tiles, then using what photoshop has to give naturally! I'll see this as an opportunity to learn typography & the basic color correction better.

Spoiler:

Cnc is appreciated!

- Calle

it looks NICE
- Try blurring that small tree(s) in the back for depth.
- I personally do not like the texts in different angles, but that's an opinion thing

Try more solid text without any effects behind it. Lol, another opinion thing

but ya i liek a lot tho

Sprout wrote:it looks NICE
- Try blurring that small tree(s) in the back for depth.
- I personally do not like the texts in different angles, but that's an opinion thing

Try more solid text without any effects behind it. Lol, another opinion thing

but ya i liek a lot tho

Thanks Andy! :)

1 - I blurred out the trees, added a black outline, and added a watermark as I forgot to do with the original.

2 - Then I made another version without effects on the text, and a different font for the "be happy" part. Personally, I actually like the one with the new text.

1:

2:

EDIT; I made a mistake in the second one, as I must've changed the "be happy" font again by mistake. It's actually supposed to be like this, but oh well.

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They look really nice, Calle. :]

Alright, so ignore the weird smudging I did to ~*erase*~ your current text...
Something about the text space irks me a bit.

Hopefully, this might help you (?) Font color choices are random

Clean cut simple

I generally go by making the first words/phrases small and then make the main word or phrase the biggest.

"Angled" thing. Uhh yeah, angled text generally does not have a good outcome on small font, but I kinda tried what you were trying..


Almost always, you want to stick with a two fonts that are the same or blend together nicely. (Ex: Simple font phrase + cursive font main word combo) or something... yeah this makes no sense lol..