derschwigg

It's looking pretty good, but at the moment, the numbers look screen-printed on. If you're going for an embroidered look, you can employ some layer styles to achieve the look below:

I used a custom brush for the stitching, but otherwise, it's all in the layer styles menu.

I used a:

Bevel and Emboss with Contour

-Outer Bevel, Chisel Soft, 80% depth, Up, Size 10px

Stroke

-10px outside

Inner Shadow

-Distance 5, size 15

Gradient Overlay

-Overlay, 15% opacity, reflected gradient

Pattern Overlay

-Screen, 100%, 42% scale.

Drop Shadow

-size 5, distance 15

Also, I did a 10% Arc of warp text.

Of course, all of this matters if you have a crazy close up like you see here. Otherwise, you could probably tone down most of those values I mentioned earlier.

A big thank you to the award's namesake for pinning this for us. It appears that no one lords over concepts as a mod anymore (and Gary for sending Chris a message on FB for us).

Looks like it's high time that a new mod or two were named for the concepts then, don't ya think?

Here here. Coincidentally, I think the panel of judges for the Creamers would be the best candidates for mod-hood.

I'm curious, when are the annual Creamers going to be?

Congrats on the pinning!

Happy to help!

I've always been partial to seeing an updated look for Ol' Sarge from A&M

If you don't mind, ren, I'd like to take a crack at this guy.

ren this is awesome. It's a big eye-opener for someone like myself who has done very little using the pen tool. This gives me a much better idea of how it should be done. I've always tried to use a few nodes as possible, but it appears that you were fairly liberal in your use of nodes. I will definitely have to keep that in mind moving forward.

The pen tool is incredible, but the learning curve is steep.

I used to have a worksheet for my students (I used to teach this stuff at Bradley University) to help them practice. I'll see if I can dig it up.

Ren, that's incredible.

You have a gift.

So this is just an awards thread, correct? And it's not a hall of fame?

I think it's both - the first post served as something as the "induction" post, and it's snowballed into an awards post.

Right?

It might be that you both have it open at the same time - I've had that issue working in an office environment. That was there way of combatting piracy for some time, it might still be.

Anyone know what font BAVARIA is?

Looks like an LHF font.

EDIT - Tonic LHF Nerve

Incredible render. Nicely done!

Helvetica or Arial