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[Art] Clay's "Art"
So I am very involved in the Call of Duty community, and competitive CoD player have a fairly specific genre of Twitter Banners/Art that they use.

My Twitter Follows / RT's are much appreciated.
Here's my portfolio: https://www.behance.net/neurooriginals

I have recently picked up graphic design (I'm still not very good, but I only started 2 days ago), and would love some tips from all of the great artists in the TB community.

I pretty much exclusively use Photoshop CS6 Extended. I make some things in Adobe Flash as well.

Please give me constructive criticism on anything I post, and if you know some tips for Photoshop, please let me know. It is very appreciated.

So here is what I have done so far. I will list them in chronological order according to when I made them (top = first, bottom = last).

First Header (Made for myself, very simplistic)


Made for a friend (Free)


Made for my 1st client ($3). Also the space at the top and bottom is meant to be there. Twitter cuts off a bit of the top and bottom of headers.


First template I made. Green space theme.


Similar style to the last one. Different font, red space theme.


Most recent template. This style (black and white background, tight lettering) is very popular in the CoD comunity so I thought I'd take a crack at it.


Made a new header for myself (really proud of this one)


Here is another banner with my alias on it (KreeKy), but I'm not going to use it. This was my first try at 3D lettering, just to test it out.


Edited version of "Made a new header for myself". Simplified.


CG Designs Logo


Messing around with colors. Random.


Black and White template adapted and changed a bit


That thing above this one ^^^ with some text effects and some stuff changed.


First client for 3D lettering ($8 for Twitter Header and Avi)


3D rainbow for client. ($5)


Tons of Effects


More effects


Even MORE effects ($5)


FaZe Support Header


nV Support Header


"tannerxvanity" header 2


Green Jungle Effects Header + Avi ($8) (Not final versions. Don't feel like rendering them out again)


Harm Header ($5)


Kzah header ($5)


Cognitive Designs Logo


Cognitive Designs Header



When I make more in the future I will post it as well as add it to the OP. Thank you in advance for your input.
Last edited by Clay; Apr 3, 2015 at 09:21 AM.
Those arnt that bad. I clicked on the thread to make fun of you, Soap... lol.
If you make youtube banners pm asap.

The only comment I have is to find a font that will connect with the background image better.
If you have a space background with some nice rainbow colors thing of a cute font... you get the point.
Good text placement for the "(really proud of this one)" one. The turtle is cute.
All around, I give you art a 8/10 because work needs to be done of some of these just a bit more.
Oh and make sure you work on the extra blank space you have have in some areas.

peace and good job.

Oh OH and the 3D lettering is the best one. Make me one.
Thanks for your input.

Like I said in the beginning of the post, the CoD community has a very specific style that people consider genuine. This rules out "cute" fonts. I get what you mean, though. Thank you.

And I haven't done a YT banner yet, but I could if I had the dimensions. PM me.
they look too complicated for my taste, but i like your dedication and cant wait to see your future stuff

i hope this one was a joke D:



too many colors, gross white text and font
there was nothing "simplistic" about it
different logos with a bunch of different styles, if one has a white stroke, i'd say make them all have it
Yeah you're right. At first it was a lot different, it was a joke. But I changed some stuff and it looked pretty cool. The logos aren't that high-quality, and I actually have some higher quality ones that I should replace them with.

Thanks for the input bro.

Edit: Actually just edited that banner and I think it looks better now. Took off all of the unnecessary stuff. Let me know how they compare, guys.

edit



Edit: Made a logo. If you can't tell, it's a "C" and a "G" which are my initials. I'm planning on making multiple versions of it with the full name and everything later. I also might possibly add a radial gradient. Let me know what you guys think.

CG Designs Logo



Edit: Was just messing around with 3D and colors and stuff.

Messing around with colors. Random.

Last edited by Clay; Feb 10, 2015 at 09:12 PM.
Just used one of my templates and put my name on it, as well as added and changed some things. Lmk what you guys think

Black and White template adapted and changed a bit



Edit: Just made another one similar to the one above, but I tried some new text effects. Let me know how this looks, please.

That thing above this one ^^^ with some text effects and some stuff changed.

Last edited by Clay; Feb 11, 2015 at 08:11 AM.
First client for 3D lettering. He said he wanted it to be just like mine so I didn't change much. (I told him the background was a bit stretched but he insisted on using it.)

First client for 3D lettering ($8 for Twitter Header and Avi)



Edit: One of my clients wanted one like the rainbow one I did. I told him it was mainly just a joke to try colors, but he thinks it looks cool so I made one for him.

3D rainbow for client. ($5)



Just tried a bunch of effects on this one. This is the style most CoD people like. Let me know what you think.

Tons of Effects



Edit: Similar to the one above, I used a lot of effects on this one. Let me know how this looks compared to the other one. Tried some different effects and such.

More effects

Last edited by Clay; Feb 13, 2015 at 06:03 AM.
The guy I made the rainbow header for (Cuse) saw my banners with tons of effects and wanted one, so this is his. Lmk what you guys think about this.

Even MORE effects ($5)



Edit: As some of you may know, there are a lot of fans for Pro teams in the CoD community. FaZe is mostly known for their sniping clan, but they also have a competitive team. I made a banner for the fans to wear.

FaZe Support Header

Last edited by Clay; Feb 14, 2015 at 03:47 AM.
cuse one is boring with a ton of overused effects and is horribly pixelated
the support one is even more boring with pixelated stuff and nothing interesting at all
don't talk to me or my dudes ever again
i was literally screensharing with the guy and he told me what he wanted. I don't see any nasty pixels in the cuse one, but I see what you mean in the FaZe one. On the arrows on the side right? Thanks for the input.

Here is another support banner that was requested by a friend of mine. This is for a team called EnVyUs or nV. Changed the style up just a tad.

nV Support Header



Edit: For the tannerxvanity guy, I wasn't happy with what I made first, so I made him a new header.

"tannerxvanity" header 2



Also had a guy that wanted a green "jungle" theme with the effects I used on the other headers.

Green Jungle Effects Header + Avi ($8) (Not final versions. Don't feel like rendering them out again)



And this guy wanted the exact same as my first "Effects" header, so I use all the same effects and colors.

Harm Header

Last edited by Clay; Feb 15, 2015 at 12:09 AM.