McGani's Gallery

[mcgani]

Am I doing this right? I know I keep asking, but am I?! Haha!

My graphic style, if I had to give it one, is SIMPLE. I don't go too wild with signatures. 
Also, most of these were made when I was 16, which is ~8 years ago, so there's that.
I only recently got back into this RPG, sig-making gig. :">
But boy did I suck at text placement back then.
I'm hoping to show some more recent, *BETTER* work in the future!

MCGANI'S GALLERY

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I'm ashamed to admit that I've filled some Twilight requests in my day:

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PREMADES

If you use any of these I ask that you give credit to me, McGani. 

You can link to my profile here, or to my Potter forum in my signature. 

If I come up with more, I'll add more!

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A long time ago I made owl icons for my mail messages. I just re-traced the owl to use as on/off icons, so I'll provide those too.

It's been awhile, so buttons could have been added to this set. However, at one point, they were a complete set.


                  

Also On/Off Owlies. I traced these off of the above owlies, so I do finally have a .PSD of them, just without icons attached.

Since I made the switch to V5 these aren't as useful as they once were to me, so now they're being retired as resources!

Though I am currently using the re-traced Owls. But why not share? They're cuties. :3



I also thought I'd include these quill on/off icons, as I'm not using them anymore:

   

House Banners, anyone?









Here were some old ones:









Here are some badges I made only recently. The Prefect one actually wasn't my original concept, but I mimicked it for use on my forum (I couldn't find the original graphic-maker, and the graphic I found was poor quality, so I can't take credit for the concept--just the fact that I re-created it for the purpose of making several badges).

There's Prefect, Head Girl, Head Boy, Quidditch Captain and an Order of Merlin badge.
I can make more of these, if anyone has a request for a different one.

      

I can't say I "Designed" the moon here, but if anyone ever has a need for a transparent moon (werewolves, anyone?)



And I COULD NOT find a proper St. Mungo's insignia anywhere, so I made this little simple one:



And a really badly-drawn snitch--I use these at a pretty small scale on my RPG, so I got lazy on details, but who knows, it could be useful to someone!




A couple of minimalistic background patterns:

   

[aro]

Hi I suggest on making blends and banners and chapter images and a use of textures and stocks to help the look of graphics.

-lee

[nevershoutPOTTER]

Hello! You have a good gallery, I really like the Lily sig! However, you should play around with colouring, blending and all the stuff Lee said! Check out tuts and use HQ images! They make your images seem better;)

[mcgani]

Haha, like I said, I'm more about simplicity than using a bunch of fancy effects--however, I do know HOW. Graphic Designer IRL.

I value simplicity when it comes to making graphics to represent people's characters--I want to get a good idea of what they look like without all the flowery extras. But I WILL keep it in mind

I did just make someone some new sets, I'll be adding those in. 95% of the current sigs/avs were made when I was in high school, which was 6 years ago. I'm slowly yet surely getting back into the whole forum-graphic gig. It's a bit of a different mindset than what I do at work every day! For example, I just did a vehicle wrap of a van to make it look like the Scooby Doo Mystery Machine! It's awesome. And I do brochures, image manipulation, e-mail blasts, websites, logos, etc. Lots of large-format stuff. It feels so weird doing little stuff again!

[aro]

Hmm ohh well we look for quality in it if its all simplicity we would not know how to promote people with it since it really depends on it all. I just started making graphics last year I think was not too long ago although keep it up though it looks great I suggest also to make blends, banners, chapter images and colorizations and textures and stocks it can really help especially if you don't do good with colors (i know i repeated this lots XD)

[mcgani]

I'm probably going to stick mainly to just posting things I make for others, or for my own site--you don't have to promote me if you don't want to! xD

But I'm probably not going to make graphics just for the sake of getting promoted, that nobody is going to use--I simply don't have the time! I'm not even entirely sure how that works. I don't think quality = bells & whistles, and I use them sparingly!

I do use a bit of coloring/texture/blending/cloning techniques in most of my signatures/avatars, but if you can't tell that I have, I take that as a compliment. :3 "If you've done things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."

[aro]

Lol well you don't make them sparingly you post what you make when you make something for someone else or whenever you get bored and you make it. It is not hard at all although i do get what you mean sometimes I only make graphics when i need to or when i get bored XD but well we all get that.

-lee

[SLAYER]

Hey Mcgani! You know i love your work! If you havent seen her Redbubble you must look! Its AMAZING! I look forward to seeing more things from you!

[mcgani]

OMG SLAYER IT'S YOU!! :3 Awesome! Thanks so much for the kind words, d'aww!

[SLAYER]

You cant escape me! <3

[aro]

Redbubble? What is that?

[SLAYER]

Mar 30, 2013 10:45:56 GMT -5 aro said:

Redbubble? What is that?

if you click the RB button in Maganis siggy, it will link you to her pagey xD

[mcgani]

RedBubble is a wonderful place where you can buy my fan arts and things, and it is the official fund of my Podcast & random drinking excursions.

[aro]

You just gave me a great idea i could probably use it for premium cboxes XD

[aro]

SFTDP

Problemo I am thirteen XD so sad now argh ohh well just have to find people to donate.