Entry 1, clearly a Brawl render. I see a lot of brushes interfering with the image (see bottom left and left area), and if you want an outer space theme, which you seem to be going for, try to slightly blur the background image. I can clearly see the lines in what is supposed to be empty space. However, I appreciate the depth that you put into the sig, and the text blends pretty well. It looked like part of the gun for a second. XD It's hard to tell that the Great Fox is sitting down there in the bottom of background, so exactly why is it there?
Entry 2, while I appreciate the black and white effect, the text doesn't blend at all into the background, and much of the image is indecipherable because of you just making the image black and white after completing a color sig.
After all that, I'm voting for entry 1.
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