Hey there Energie(:
I love your gallery, your graphics look very nice. My favorite graphics of yours are your Katy Perry avatars. They are very nice(:

Thank youuuu xD
I saw you on Wi xD

your adele signature is very nice

you sure got something good going on here
a lot of practice and you will become even better than you are right now
because your doing great for someone that only started 7 months ago

Thank you :)

Hi there!! I'm Ashley and I'm here to pimp your gallery. I totally love the snow signature. That totally caught my eye and I fell in love with it!! <3 You've got a real talent for model placement and for icon cuts. I have two suggestions. One being make sure textures and stock aren't over your models faces or it's really hard to see them and gives the graphic a really flat look. So, just watch out for that in the future. Also, be careful of your coloring. It looks really fantastic in the snow signature but comes out a bit too green and yellow in the always searching signature.

I suggest playing around more with your coloring because you are definitely on the right track. Also, try to remember to use high quality images, those are usually quite large and aren't blurry in appearance. Keep your eye out for those. You really have talent and I'm honestly looking forward to what else you come up with. I get the feeling that with your current talent you'll be learning and moving up the ranks pretty fast. Lovely gallery!!! <3

Updated :)

Your stuff isn't half bad! Your current icon is adorable! >.<

I think if you work a little on your colouring and composition and go from there you'll go really far! Your model placement is pretty great though. Of your stuff, I think my favourite is your Adele signature. :) Good luck! :)

New siggies :D

Updated :)

Hi there! I'm Amanda, and I'm here to pimp your gallery :)

I think you're off to a really good start composition wise, and your blending skills are pretty good. One of the things I would work on is texture use. Typically you don't want the textures overtop of the model's faces. Also, I'd love to see some stock usage from you. Most of your pieces are really texture heavy, but using stock is fun too once you get the hang of it ;)

I'm looking forward to seeing more as you keep updating!

Thanks, Amanda :)
And I'm trying to use more stocks, it's actually cooler than I thought. :D
And I deleted some of my old OR bad-looking stuff... I'm working on an icon set right now, and I'll try to make more colorizations.

Updated, I changed the colorization because the other one was horrible xD

Your graphics amaze me (:

Haven't updated this in a while, I'll probably update it now.

You've got a really cool gallery going! My favorite things are you signatures, for sure. The colorings are pretty and the text is sweeet! :D I think that this is my favorite one, but I like them all.

I also <3 these. You have nice crops and awesome colorings :).

I love the composition of this banner. It's got a lot of energy.

Your colorization is beautiful! The only thing is that you could make it a little more detailed around the hair so that you don't have orange bleeding onto her skin.

Anyway, I like your gallery so far! Keep up the good work!
--Brenna

Revamped! :)

Some lovely graphics. I like your Demi signature. Well done.

awesome job
congrats

Yay!!!! Congratulations on your promo!!!

Congrats on your promotion!

Thanks everyone! <3

Congratulations on your promo! :D

THIS! This blend is gorgeous. Congrats on the promo by the way, can't wait to see more from you.

Thanks Marvin :)
And thanks Nikki! I'm glad you like it!

Updated with some icons, two sigs and a chapter image (first ever!!!)

-cue pimp-
wow, your gallery is really lovely! you should really be promoted, this is not emerging work! I think your sigs are really strong a well composed. Your blends also look great. =D I think you should try working on your icons a bit, because they aren't as good as everything else in your amazing gallery! <3

Hi Madi :)
Thanks so much!!! <3
Yeah, I think icons are too small, so that's why I'm taking the Elem Icons class, I want to improve my icons :)
Anyway, thank youuuuuuuu! <3
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added new blend!

Hey Energie! I'm Amanda and I'm here to do your pre-promotional critique for the month of April!

Icons
First off, you typically need 3+ of each type of graphic to be promoted, so I would definitely create more icon sets! The Diana Agron set that you have now I don't feel flow very well, and I think it's because of the way the textures are placed over top of the model. In some cases I can see it overlapping her face and she ends up looking very purple as well. The cropping and text on them is really well done though! But once you make some new sets I would suggest taking these ones out of your gallery.

Signatures
You've got a fantastic grasp on composition. I'm really impressed. You're really good at telling with stocks/textures work well together. :) What's holding you back right now I think is your actual blending. It's a bit sloppy at times, and you can generally see where you've erased around the model/where textures/stocks are overlapping where maybe they shouldn't be. So I would really try to focus on your blending as you add new pieces! I would also work on text. Not so much the placement-your text placement is actually really fantastic-but the fonts/colors that you're choosing so that the text will be easily readable :) I would suggest removing this and this and replacing them with new pieces. The blending just isn't as good as on your newer stuff-though the composition of them is lovely.

Banners
Like I said with your icons, I would suggest adding some more banners before promos! The one you have up now is great. The composition looks good, the only thing I would do is make the smaller of the two center models a little bit smaller than how you have her now. I'd also work on the coloring. It currently looks a bit over contrasted. Please add some more! :)

Colorizations
You're off to a good start with colorizations. The skin tone is looking really good-though it looks like you tried to add some red/pink, which I don't think was necessary, the skin looked really natural already. The biggest thing that I notice is her eyes. The eyeballs are the same color as the skin tone, and you can tell the pupils haven't been colored either. It can be very tedious, but sometimes you just have to zoom in really far to be able to get those little details. The rest of this looks really great though!

Blends
Loving your blend compositions! Here again I think you should really focus on making sure that your blending is really clean. Because the actual ideas are great, you just have to work a little bit on the execution ;) Like with your signatures, continue to work on text, and I think that this section is going to be really great. I don't suggest removing anything yet, just make more!

Chapter Images
I really like the composition of what you have, and the blues and greens are very pretty! I think the text is great you, just keep making more :)

Overall
I think you've got a really creative, lovely gallery. If you really hone in on the basics and making sure that your blending is really well executed, you are seriously going to be moving up the ranks in no time! Good luck with promotions! <3

Hey En (:
It's Kierstyn (which you already could tell, by my username)
As you already know, I love your graphics<3
I especially love the last blend c:

Hey everyone :)
thanks for your comments!

Amanda:
Thanks for the critique. Yep, I'll definitely try to make more icon sets, because I don't like my Dianna set either :P
Aww, thanks <3 I'm glad you like my sigs composition :) I'll try to pay more attention to my blending, because sometimes, at first I cut with the pen tool, but then I think it's too harsh and erase with a soft eraser over my cut xD I'll try to avoid this xD
I will also try to work on my banners, because I think it's pretty hard to fit images in a large, but low space. Thanks for the advice!
About my colorization, yeah, I added random pink patches and now I regret it. And I'll try to pay attention at small details like that as well.
I'm glad you like my blends. It's one of my favorite types of graphics, and yeah, I'll try to work on my blending here too. <3
thanks so much for the critique! It was really helpful :)

Updated with... uhh, I'm not sure. 2 icon sets, 2 or 3 sigs, 3 banners, no colorization yet because I forgot to upload one I made, and 1 blend. :)
I hope you enjoy my newest graphics :)

Thanks Eliza! :D

Wow, your gallery is looking smashing! Congrats on the well deserved promotion!

Thank you Amber! :)

Energieeee! Your graphics are so amazing! (It's Maddy by the way) I wish I was so talented o:

I sent you a PM telling you this anyway - but to reiterate - I absolutely love your stuff. It's beautiful, well composed - and you really have a great grasp of color and stock position - something I'm rather envious of. I absolutely adore your Selena blend - but then...I find myself adoring most of your gallery.

The only think I can see to work on is text, something I too struggle with - but even that shows progression through signatures. Keep up the hard work- and you'll be one of the greats in no time!

<3

Thank you so much :D
You're so nice!
And I'll try to make the Selena Blend tut soon :)

Not nice - only truthful ;) and I await said tutorial with baited breath <3

1) congrats on your promo!
2) >_> I feel like a loser when your graphics are so gorgeous!!