I’m not quitting signature making because I no longer enjoy designing art; on the contrary, my passion for signatures has never been stronger. The problem is that real life is starting to become more important, and to be honest, more fun as well. As most of you probably noticed, I barely have any time to be online, nevermind grade assignments. The one thing a good thread owner needs to have is a high level of activity.
I am not able to meet that requirement anymore, and it is highly unlikely I will again in the future.
Moreover, I am actively trying to improve my life. Don’t get me wrong; my life isn’t crappy or anything, but I won’t say it’s the best. I’m persuing new interests such as playing the guitar, working on my physique, and learning about social dynamics. At the same time, I’m getting closer to my senior year in high school, so it is crucial for me to get good grades. Unfortunately, I can’t do any of this if I spend any time with the signature community.
Therefore, I am permanently leaving you guys. I myself have mixed feelings about doing so, but I really did consider it thoroughly, and it seems like the only option.
For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Prince Patar. I was formerly known as a signature artist and teacher at the school I founded, called Royal Signature Academy. I’ve been involved with ASCII art ever since I started somewhere around January 2009. Let me tell you how it all started.
This is the first signature I had. The original border was owned by a company called Iggy’s Siggy. Initially, I never meant to get into signatures, but when they did not complete my order for over two weeks, I decided to give a go at it myself. It actually took me a couple of weeks coming up with the text. It is an acronym for the last part of my name. To this day, I remain loyal to the qualities I considered important at that time.
This is my second signature. I had seen someone use alt spaces, which inspired me to use them as well. I quickly understood how they worked and decided to integrate them into a signature with a quote from a popular TV show called “Legend of the Seeker”.
Prince Patar
28-Sep-2010 19:44:52
Last edited on 22-Nov-2010 17:05:14 by Prince Patar
From here on, I soon discovered signature companies, and decided to join one. Oh, how I enjoyed the smiles of people, who were thrilled with the signatures I created. It was truly a time of joy. During my employment at Master’s Signatures & Logos, I improved a lot. Without a doubt, I was one of the most active workers, and brought the company to a level of success it had never seen before.
Later on, I discovered K1ng’s Royal Rankings, a thread that ranked signature artists. I was impressed by the amount of people who were ranked, and decided to apply too. I got ranked around 13th, which I disagreed severely with. Being still a little kid at the time, I believed my signatures were better than everyone else’s, and the #1 spot should’ve been mine. This caused me to be very ambitious, constantly trying to improve my signatures.
When the thread owner of Master’s Signatures & Logos became inactive, I joined 9x9’s Signature Shop, even though 9x9 Master was pretty much my rival in the rankings at that time. I enjoyed making signatures alongside 9x9, and was most likely influenced greatly by his style at that time
The previous post can be considered the prologue of my career. My real story begins here.
My younger brother, Kingteror, had joined Scout's Signature School, and decided to make his own school. Thus far, I had never taken a look at signature schools; I had never even clicked on Scouts. The reason for this is quite silly, really: I thought Scout*s Signatures had something to do with the RL Boy Scouts and the badges they get when achieving something. Certainly something I wasn’t interested in.
Anyway, when Kingteror made his school, Siggy-Making Signature School (horrible name, I agree), I was skeptical at first. I asked him why his school would be any different from Jedi Scout's. He didn't really care much; all he wanted was to be independent from Jedi. When I saw what kind of sloppy mess his thread was, my doubt turned to ambition. I was going to show him how it should be done.
It was holiday time, which allowed me to work at least 4 hours a day on the thread. Nonetheless, it took me almost two weeks to finish writing RSA. The first thread was launched May 2009.
¨°*Royal Signature Academy*°¨
I put a lot of thought in the design of the thread.
At the time, I was living in the U.S., which is why I went with a classification of 4 years, from Freshman to Senior. I gathered all the knowledge I had acquired during my work at signature companies, and compiled them into guides, written in a straight-forward manner with clear examples. I divided the thread into 4 pages of lessons, to make it as easy as possible for Students to find the information they needed.
It is quite funny, in retrospect, to think that I was around Junior level when I created the thread. That means that any Junior in today’s RSA would be considered Graduate-level then. This gives you an idea of how much the standards have gone up through the years.
hit, wasn’t it? Nope, it wasn’t nearly as successful as you may think. There were very few people applying, and there was a lot of competition from the other signature schools. Nonetheless, a few interested people decided to apply, to my delight.
From that moment, RSA’s popularity increased explosively. I don’t know why exactly, but I like to think it’s because of the way I teach and the ease of understanding of the thread. Soon 5 students turned to 20, and kept rising. At one point, so many people posted that we went through 2 threads in less than a month. However, it wasn’t until September 27th, 2009, that the first Student passed the RSA Graduation Project and became a Graduate. His name is still known throughout the Forums upon this day, Dori311.
In the following months, I spent my time teaching at RSA, constantly improving the guides and teaching methods. Soon the fifth page was filled with Senior lessons, a sixth page had been added, and competetions were launched.
You may be wondering, what is going to happen now?
I removed the guides for a reason. I updated this thread rather than creating a new one for a reason. I’m saying goodbye like this for a reason. That reason is for a rebirth of signature-making. It is up to you guys to continue the community, using nothing but your own knowledge, your own leadership skills, and your own desire to make signatures.
As long as this thread has not fallen of page 50, I forbid ANYONE from using any of the guides of RSA. Find your own way of teaching others. Form teams, form schools, whatever, I don’t care. It is up to you how to continue. YOU are the ones writing signature history now. You are capable of changing the future of the community!
Prince Patar
28-Sep-2010 19:46:42
Last edited on 22-Nov-2010 20:14:24 by Prince Patar
Sincerely,
These are all the unique signatures that I made. Most signatures have a Normal, Alt Spaced, and Shaded version, but I’ve only saved one of them. Also, any non-custom signatures have been deleted, as it isn’t worth looking at the same border with different text.
Please know that by copying these signatures, you fail to follow the only thing I ask of you. You don’t learn ANYTHING from just taking someone else’s work and putting your own name in it. Therefore, I ask of you, be inspired by the art you see, but resist the temptation of stealing any part of it.
Note: many of these signatures are Alt Spaced. Please switch to Internet Explorer to view them all correctly.