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[fineartislife]

Your Name: Finey

What kind of program do you use? --GIMP 2.6. (However, getting Photoshop Elements for Christmas)

How long have you been doing photomanipulations? About 1 year for sites..started on dA 1 week ago.
Are you willing to be as active as possible on Mayhem Studios? I will try my best.

How many requests do you think you can complete per month? 3 requests...maybe 5 small requests.

Work examples (not my best...)
queencheese.deviantart.com/#/d32ymd3
queencheese.deviantart.com/#/d32qtbo

dA link: queencheese.deviantart.com

Why do you think you should be chosen as a graphic designer for Mayhem Studios? I am a hard worker and want to showcase my art and help other people. It's fun to photomanipulate and I need inspiration.

Have you ever worked at an online studio before? Well, I am starting my own studio....but otherwise no.
If so, what is the name of the studio? Hanofer Studio.

[`Poet.]

I'm going to decline for now, but you're well on your way to being great.

A few tips to help you improve:

- I'd like to see a little more blending with horse + background. For example, in your manip., Pandora, the horses don't really look like they're "in" the water. You can fix this by smudging them a bit, painting in some ripples around them, etc. Also perhaps a few splashes?

- Textures... I like them, but (personally) I think they should be used in moderation. You have used them in almost all of your manipulations.

- Also, going with the textures, it makes the images look a little washed out. If you're going to use a texture, I'd recommend increasing the contrast on both background and horse

- I'd also like to see a little more work on the mane and tail. Try smudging/painting some strands out, and see how it looks. Right now, for example, in Break My Trust, the tail just looks... chunky. Using the smudge tool on about 80% will really help to draw out some more strands of hair.

Other than that, I think you have a really good eye for choosing stock, composition, and color balance. I also like the variety of text you use!

Just work on the few things I mentioned, and I think you'll improve a lot!

Also, please feel free to apply again later! Like I said, I really like your concepts.

Great job, and thanks for applying!

-- Poet <33

[Emma]

Not sure yet if I can do this, but here goes...

I'd have to agree with poet,
decline for the moment.

Working on blending would really help your manips. The size of the horses sometimes don't match the background, and the horse looks either massive or really tiny. The sharpness of horse and background sometimes don't match, either. That can be really easily fixed though.

I really like your choice of stock - the horse and the background - but maybe you could try to enhance them with smudging and/or blurring. There are loads of great tuts on deviantart about prepping the horse that could really help.

Your use of splashes in a few of your manips are really sophisticated, but you can't appreciate it with all the textures! If you use them in moderation, your work will really improve.

Overall, I think you have a lot of potential, and your eye for composition is great, but you'd be a much better designer after a bit of work.

[ambrosia]

I'm also going to decline.

I think you're cutting is really good in all of them, and I like the stock you've chosen in your manips, and the placement of the horses is really good too. (:

I think the main things you need to work on are blending the horses into the background more, the mains and tails as poet said, and maybe make the text a bit more subtle? I think the horse should be the main point of the image, and in a lot of your images the text kind of overpowers the subject a bit. Basically, what Poet and Emma said, too.

So I think if you work on those things, you'd really improve a lot. And like the others said, I think you have a lot of potential! Just keep practicing. <3

[fineartislife]

Thanks guys for the critique! I know I need a lot of work..hopefully I'll get better sooner or later!