So I took my 318 supplementary mid-term exam today… the paper was insanely tough, I am not sure if I am going to pass it (I struggled my way through the paper…) … hope I do, though.

Also, I have been playing with photoshop for the past few days, creating various banners (from crap to decent) out of the program. I have always liked those “grunge” signature made by the members in my forums, so these are my attempts at making a decent one. x_X

This is my first try… I followed some stupid tutorials on “filter-only signature” and this is the crap I got. Yeah, it is pretty bad… but everyone has to start somewhere, right?

This is what I mean by grunge style, the background is made up of various brushes (gotta love brushes once you know how to use them) and this is what I came out with (the chick in the banner is Poison from Final Fight).

So, I am not satisfied with the poison banner (above) and decided to use the old Rikku banner’s psd file (the first one) for the next banner. Lots of things were removed and added, and this is what I came out with (actually… it is just one character, the reason I put 3 copies of the character in is because I misunderstood what SaberBlade was saying about “showing more characters”), it is not awesome but because the grid effect was used (thanks Minako! xD), so I decided to keep it.

This is the final piece. This is the best that I can do with my current ability (I know I suck =/). Let’s hope that I will be able to master this grunge thing ASAP.