Three new Graphics (ned opinions)

I haven't posted here in a while, but I have made three new graphics, 2 sigs (not for here) and a wallpaper. The one sig (with Chris Jericho in it) was for a contest that I won and the wallpaper is for my comp at school.

Contest Banner

The Wallpaper

Blue banner

Please tell me opinions and how I can make them better.

all 3 are not my style...

the first sig is to plain in my eyes.
a weird looking dude with a overdone background.
the text kyle is ..... erhmmm ugly.. i think it would look better if you use just one color for the font.... its way to busy as it is now.

and the wallpaper scared the **** out of me... its way tooooo busy for a wallpaper.

the second sig is ok


/my two cents

btw... were you the only one at the contest ? :D

j/k

dont hate me cus im being honest.

Nah, i don't hate you...I understand where your comin from. and no, there were two to three other decent banners in the contest, but the rest were, well, not so good. Thanks for you constrtuctful criticism.

Edit: would you suggest that I use the last blue banner as my sig?

Kyle

I like it
they are nice, Yea Good job!

*trys to claw out her eyes when she views the first image* Have mercy Lord, have mercy.

Sorry, it just seems bad to me, and i'll even tell you why (oh aren't you excited now)

First is the BG. Its too...too..filtery. And busy. Backgrounds in sigs are usually suposed to be subtle, discreet. AT the very least not grabing as much attention as the rest of the image
Suggestion:change the the sateration on the iamge, make it go waaaay down.


Next, the text. Yah for layer styles, but its pointless when you can hardly see the text. (hopefully that will be taken care up with the BG changes.

Last but not least is the guy. WTF. Can we say cut and pasted? Yes yes, thats what you have to do to put it on there, but it doesn't HAVE to look like you did that. put a lil depth in the image by giving him a slight drop shadow.. hmm maybe make everything ;behind' him darker (bg and text) so you get a bit more depth. Maybe turn the sat. on him down just a tiny bit too. and up the contrast a bit.

ack forgot to comment on the other ones.

2nd one is a nice conept, but you have to admit the text doesn't really 'flow' with the rest of the image. Try tinting it blue or green. maybe use a more 'artsy' font to go with the rather artsy background??

3rd one is nice, can't say i like that font. The bg is very 'clean' very smooth. you should get a font to complament that.