Quote:But how do you determine who is amateur or not?
*sigh* Alright, I'm not a novice by Dopa's definition (good definitions, by the way). I just don't like getting slammed on everything I do by the one person who basically owns everybody's sig - especially since its mostly based on something that I had no willpower behind (i.e. the Avatar thing); and in this case, for something that isn't really meant to be 100% artistic.
Like I said, it was meant as a precursor to messages posted. A herald to 'transmissions'. A glance into Freelancer as what might be displayed if somebody saw this in reality. I'm afraid that this crew member of Vigil's Flight didn't take into account what he was wearing on picture day, and thus didn't think about blue on a black-white gradient.
I was thinking about this literally - for a practical purpose. Not within the realm of artistry, but in the realm of my imagination thinking about what something would look like if it were real. Thus, while attempting to maintain balance, I paid less heed to the traits that would acompany say, a sig, than what I would if I were making say, a sig.