On the 1st one, nice work on the smudging, that smudging skill will be useful later on.
On the 2nd one, interesting idea, just need to blur a bit the sharp sides on the render and also make the render less transparent.
Well, I gotta sleep now, since it's 4:26 AM here, so good luck & later man
ps cs4 alone is around 900mb couldn't find mu links to it so your downloading the compete adobe package. flash - media player - illustrator and much more
well, to help ya out,
we have a signature competition held every week called "Signature Of The Week" aka SOTW which anyone is welcomed to enter as long as they follow the entry rules.
Here's this weeks voting thread: http://www.animetake.com/forums/grap...ng-thread.html
and here's the Graphics club (mostly sigs) which you can join and get help from with your work and could also ask around if anyone is willing to make a sig for you.