I really don't kno what to say...
Before gigabit comments,(no offence really, I just want to clear up that I don;t need it pointed out) I know this is butt ugly. I know that,. even though it took me a long time, I didn't really do much. but I think I may be on the verge of doing complex style sigs because of this and, actually, TehRice. I helped TehRice out a few times with a sig, and I really learned a lot from the advanced tutorial. and using a couple techniques from that, I made this. but now I think i see how some of the effects come together that are used in bigger sigs, and I learned about the gradient maps, which I think look pretty good. And heck, maybe this sig looks not...bad?
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/5...ordsmanrv0.png