by *Emelia K. Fletcher » February 15th, 2016, 2:50 pm
What one has to consider when rating a signature is whether the piece itself functions cohesively as whatever it states itself to be; thus, a signature must work on two fronts to be successful, those being stating a goal that cooperates with the signature format and then fulfilling that goal as is most desired.
Seen here, your goal with a single prominent, unhyperlinked banner is to have your signature fulfil a purely aesthetic role, and a secondary target given is to have the signature display fully your own style in a well-executed manner.
Given this is my own subjective assessment, this is to be taken as lightly as is needed, but I believe that the style captured is successful in being pulled off well. The contrast is light, the colours kept undarkened and yet the picture is still composed quite well. The hills along the bottom do dip slightly too much to form a cohesive bottom border against the sky, which loses the identity of the majority part of the image that takes the form of a band-shaded heavens (this shading style, while not something I have encountered much considering my realm of visual work rarely deals with the specifics of shading, is quite well done in improving the minimalistic aspect). The text stands out against it, and can be considered meaningful as well as appropriate.
Overall, giving numeric ratings to any piece viable as a candidate for art is already an act of trivialisation, but considering that I enjoy this piece this much against my own established tastes, I would award it a 9/10, and hope that the original photo unmanipulated is still available, as I am sure it is beautiful.
a/n: your move moy