I know what you're saying about the light, and I tried. Bad thing is, it just made everything blurry, and less vivid. I was going for vivid colors in this one. So, since I couldn't use a blurred brush set on soft light, I was trying to make the 'Glowing' text the source of light. I guess that didn't work out so well.
Vasco, with the colors, you may be right. I was thinking since the character has a mostly orange body with a little bluish green in the eyes, I could take some of that bluish green and make the background. In fact, I was using something you did recently when thinking of this tag. Notice a lighter blue line running across the background that makes the bottom half lighter. I was TRYING to replicate something you did in a recent tag.
On the wireframes, there are lighter areas. I guess I goofed up when trying to make sharp shades like that. Eh.
@V: With the shades at the top and bottom. I really only did that to make the sig look rounded. Give the 2D look of the tag a 3D feel. All I did was put the black line you see at the top and bottom at the very front layers of the sig, duplicate it, and put the black lined layer further back as a blur.