He does have a certain point though, i won't say the effects don't look cool, but the fact remains that it's nothing special, sure i probably couldn't make the same thing, but that's pretty much because you ran several effects and there is very little chance that i would actually be able to do that all the same way.
It's fun to make such things, they look nice, but they aren't anything special, any person with some expierence can make it.
What most people forget is that the best graphic artist aren't those that can make all sorts of cool special effects, but those that are creative, if you are not creative then you will never get further then cheap logos, buttons for sites and some flashy pictures.
It's those people that are creative that can make the real cool stuff, the original stuff, you can learn how to create stuff, but you can't learn how to be creative and original, it's something in your head. When Maka asked me to make a sig for him i already knew how it would look before i even started, there was only 1 thing that was differen then from what i thought, now i never made such a signature before, i also never really saw a sig like that, ofcourse i saw sig with things also in that, but not exactly the same. It's that what makes someone better then the average person.
Mind you though that i suck compared to people like my brother, i'd say we have both the same knowledge and all, but he has far more ideas, he also makes things no one would even think about, yet he makes it look good and all, he is also great at drawing random characters on paper, you know the kind of characters with weird faces and all, but the type you find in a lot of comics, yet his is original and all.
Unless i see people make such things then i don't think anyone should really speak about artists, there are many types of graphics artists, but there is no such artists in a person that just knows how to use a program well and can use some options in the program.
Here is one of my brother his signatures, he totally created it himself, it's something you basicly never see, really never see.
i made this with 1 blue line and 1 yellow, changed the yellow to blue cus it looked ugly when it got clsoe to done.. i think it looks retarded but i showed some friends and they though it was nice.. so i just though hey what the hell.. but i gotta say.. was pretty hard to make something like that out of 2 lines lol
