cat1205123: Meep, pretty decent...although I do suggest you follow some basic "guidelines" for sets. Border, background, clear/concise text- border being more of a priority, in my opinion. The av is good, I see you put a little white grid effect on it which seems to fit in nicely, but the main problem is, your text doesn't really match...and there's no border. Same for the sig on the border issue- and the text, you chose a font that looks smushed when enlargened. Try another font or shrink it a little. The greyscaling of everything but the stick in the sig was really creative. ;P
shortin: Mm, the effect of the opposite-grid on the image is great- it gives kind of a embossed look. Only things I see that could use some improvement are the text and to define the edges more (they seem kinda defined already, but a border's useful). The font you chose doesn't seem to show up too clearly, and looks blurry when small. Furthermore, because the image is being shrunken, it turns pretty much illegible. I'd suggest to put the text after shrinking...but it's a little late for that now, haha.
As for your set, it looks pretty good, I like the border. Again, you might want to work on making the text more clear. Contrary to what Medli said though...I don't suggest transparency. It's awfully difficult to do that with such a border with intricate edges. Maybe a colour fill instead of the white, or adding a border at the edge of the white.
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Ratings on my current set would be much appreciated. Entirely handdrawn with the exception of the use of Liquify, Clouds, and Average. XP
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