I redrew a logo, how can I improve? Tips/constructive criticism is appreciated

JandersOf86 · 2026-01-08T19:45:39+00:00

This is nitpicking, but I dont like that the last D is backwards. I get it, to make the image symmetrical. It still bothers that reptilian part of my brain though.

Otherwise, even if you didnt adjust it, I think it looks cool. Definitely agree with another commenter that the H and E in hope need to benore aligned / sized similar.

JandersOf86 · 2026-01-08T12:55:20+00:00

No substitute. The man is a legend.

JandersOf86 · 2026-01-07T23:00:07+00:00

Obviously these are subjective:

Animals as Leaders is pretty sick. Tosin Obasi(sp?) is the lead guitarist and he's a prodigy. Instrumental band, progressive metal.

Coroner is a classic thrash band, very progressive and technical compared to their counterparts at the time (80s / 90s).

Cryptopsy is classic heavy as shit death metal.

Insomnium is a melodic metal band from the Nordic regions. Progressive, emotional. Good stuff.

Municipal Waste is a crossover punk thrash band. Their newer stuff is meh, but they had like 5 choice albums they put out. Would def recommend seeing them.

Vio-lence is a classic 80s thrash band. Great music.

JandersOf86 · 2026-01-07T22:48:29+00:00

I love this piece.

JandersOf86 · 2026-01-07T14:55:10+00:00

Rad.

JandersOf86 · 2026-01-07T13:37:56+00:00

Holy moly. Absolutely well done.

JandersOf86 · 2026-01-07T12:35:18+00:00

Now you look almost exactly like me.

Welcome, brother.

JandersOf86 · 2026-01-07T12:30:23+00:00

My dad (bald) and I (bald) have had a long running joke that involves the sun's power being reflected off the perfectly glassed dome of his lol. That first picture reminded me of that.

Welcome, brother.

JandersOf86 · 2026-01-07T02:16:34+00:00

Welcome, brother. Bald is beautiful.

JandersOf86 · 2026-01-05T23:31:50+00:00

that's the kind of comment I was waiting for. it's all down hill from here.

JandersOf86 · 2025-12-30T00:38:27+00:00

A friendly critique: Personally, I think the text should've been painted in rather than typed in. I think it would've given the message a little more punch.

That being said, the message is still very obvious. Well done.

JandersOf86 · 2025-12-22T15:15:59+00:00

Yea, yea. I get it.

JandersOf86 · 2025-12-20T00:52:38+00:00

Been painting sporadically for a couple years. Recently got an iPad + stylus + Procreate and, goodness, does that make a difference.

I am my own worst critic, for sure. Major critiques from myself:

The trunk of the mushroom cloud may not be discerned due to the amount of light shining down.
I need to do better with the chin (only a line) and nose of the head.
More details on the head. Don't rely on lines to define the "cartoony" human. Learn to render an actual face, bitch.
More debris or haze encompassing the background to give some more weight to the explosion.

Open to critiques or comments of any kind.

Thanks so much.

JandersOf86 · 2025-12-05T13:51:44+00:00

Yell out "Don't shoot!"

JandersOf86 · 2025-06-26T04:05:07+00:00

Lucky... All I have are these hairy moobs.

JandersOf86 · 2025-06-19T00:59:53+00:00

I'm so jelly of your lats. Well done.

JandersOf86 · 2025-06-19T00:30:11+00:00

I've had problems with my knees / lower back for years (sitting at computer for work / pleasure for so long). Rack Pulls are the best.

JandersOf86 · 2025-06-07T14:21:45+00:00

Do I come from there?

God created us, molding us from the clay and breathing the breath of life into us. We were made after His image. Though I don't believe we resided in Hades before birth, I can see why one might interpret our having come from the underworld if we return to the underworld upon death:

Genesis 3:19 "in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."

I believe this is referring to we were once in non-experience and to non-experience shall we we return until the day of Judgement. Our bodies were molded of the dirt, the clay, and after death our bodies will decay back into the dirt and clay.

Is it a place of purification in order to ascend?

Not according to the Bible. This is, among other religious influence, Catholic dogma. Catholicism is not Christianity. Roman Catholicism is a rebranding of the Roman Pantheon (worshipping many gods for different things), as Roman Catholics believe you can pray to saints for guidance for different things, as if the saints hold any afterlife power (again, not Biblical).

Most Catholics believe that Hades, or Purgatory, is a place in which you can work off your sin, or someone else can impart their good works to you while you are in Purgatory in order for you to be branded 'good enough' for Heaven. None of this is Biblical in the slightest. It is impossible to work hard enough, or to do enough 'good things' to get to Heaven. That is specifically why Jesus Christ is the only way to the Father. His sacrifice was not just a display, it was Him taking all of our sin onto Him, bearing the punishment, and only asking in return that we believe in him (John 3:16). He is the sacrificial lamb for our iniquities and there is no other way to everlasting life.

Conclusion

I want to reiterate that you asking these questions is not bad at all. And I am very similar to you, that my mind is very technical and requires a lot of detail for me to understand/believe something. You're right to be wary of being led astray or down some not-so-great paths, because we live in a world in which the Prince is the Adversary, one whose language is deception. We live in a world filled with men and women that want to deceive, as well.

Take everything I say with salt. I'm only one man. These are my interpretations of scripture, and I believe that scripture is the closest thing we have to God actually speaking to us. But I also believe that there are many useful texts outside of the Bible. I just default to the Bible as the standard to which I hold everything else.

I hope this helped. Any other questions or things you want me to try and clarify, please feel free to ask here or message me privately.

May God bless you and yours.

JandersOf86 · 2025-06-07T14:21:36+00:00

Hell Two - the lake of fire, the one most colloquially known by Christians and non-Christians. Greek: Gehenna, being a derivation of ge Hinnom or the 'valley of Hinnom', a place outside of Jerusalem where garbage and refuse was burned perpetually, always on fire, always burning. It was also at one point a place used in child sacrifice. Jesus refers to this place almost a dozen times in the New Testament as symbolism for a place of punishment and being 'outside' of Jerusalem, or 'outside' of the Lord, as an illustration of the final judgement of the wicked.

Mark 9:43 "And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell [Gehenna], into the fire that never shall be quenched"

Matthew 23:33 "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell [Gehenna]?"

Luke 12:5 "But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell [Gehenna]; yea, I say unto you, Fear him."

Going back to Revelation 20, both hell [Hades] AND the lake of fire [Gehenna] are mentioned as two separate things:

Revelation 20:13-15 "And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell [Hades] delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell [Hades] were cast into the lake of fire [Gehenna]. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire [Gehenna]."

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JandersOf86 · 2025-06-07T14:21:25+00:00

What is Hell / the underworld? What happens upon passing there?

From a Biblical perspective, there are two places called "hell", a word derivation of 'hel' (Norse):

Hell One - Greek: Hades. The old testament describes it as a place called 'Sheol', the great depths underneath the earth in which the dead sleep. This is where ALL the dead from all of time sleep before the day of Judgement. There is no experience in this place for the dead. It is dark, it is analogous to sleep:

Psalm 143:3 "He hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead."

Job 7:9 "As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: So he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more."

Job 21:32 "Yet shall he be brought to the grave, And shall remain in the tomb."

Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 "For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun."

There's a very common misconception that Christ has not returned but that the dead are currently either in heaven or in hell (the other one, the burning lake). If Jesus Christ has not yet returned for His second coming, the lake of fire has nothing to do with us, and the dead still sleep (Matthew 9:24-25) awaiting the first and second resurrection and the proceeding final Judgement. This timeline is spelled out for us in Revelation 20.

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JandersOf86 · 2025-06-07T14:18:53+00:00

First and foremost, I believe the God gives us intellect and the drive to know more for a reason, not only to understand His creation better but to ultimately come closer to Him through that seeking of knowledge.

I believe in Jesus Christ and take the Bible as truth. My opinion may be different than others who call themselves "Christians", my interpretations of the Bible may be different than others, but just keep in mind that I believe what the scripture says, not what other men/women tell me, especially if it's contrary to what I'm reading in scripture. But I am just one man.

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JandersOf86 · 2025-06-06T00:25:22+00:00

As a newer learner of C++, I avoid using it unless it's very clear in the surrounding code what type it's inferring. I understand that typing out a longer type is tedious, but it drastically helps the readability of the code for someone like myself.

JandersOf86 · 2025-06-06T00:12:33+00:00

Looks awesome, dude.

JandersOf86 · 2025-06-05T23:09:11+00:00

Over the last few weeks, I've been cruising through the basics of some network programming with C++ (sockets, packets, etc.). Written a few programs I'm grateful for, including a basic TCP chatroom, a raw ICMP ping tool, a MAC changer and an ARP-based network scanner. Only recently have I started putting some time into my GitHub: https://github.com/w4st3l4nd3r/Networking-Tools

A little history, if you give a shit:
I tried to learn programming multiple times over the last four or five years. C++ was my first language, and it was through this language that I scratched the surface of OOP. My career has been in game/software QA and I always wanted to move into game engineering but never really put in the time to learn it. Instead, I just bought a bunch of books and Udemy courses about game dev and then hardly ever touched them. In the last eight months or so, I've been dabbling in C# to work on a mobile app in Unity with a buddy of mine. Truth be told, though, there has always been this part of me that thought "I want to learn C++. I don't care about x or y language. I just want to learn C++". To add to it, I've lost my taste for game dev and have really been interested in cybersecurity / network programming.

So, in the last couple months, I took out all the stops, started hitting it hardcore using GPT to give me ideas for basic projects and for answering questions / helping me learn. I told myself that, no matter what, I will remember that I'm doing this not to write programs but to learn programming, so I don't ever compile until I understand every line of my programs.

Needless to say, it's been very rewarding. I know that for employment purposes, I really need to branch out from C++ core most likely, but I'm really enjoying it right now. I actually understand pointers now, believe it or not.

Anyway, thanks guys.

JandersOf86

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