I tried making a medal, for an competition about the Runners League. I'm not so experienced at making things from scratch, so give me a break. This took me a while to do, and the fact that I am really lazy. Please give me suggestions on how to make this better, and any other ideas that you want to share. I would really love feedback, because I am not happy with this, it needs a lot of work. I made this medal in Gimp, and plan on only using gimp.



And again, please give me ideas on how to improve on this, show me your styles and help me out. I don't have a time limit on this, but I generally do want to get better at this sort of stuff. Please give me tips and tutorials and how to enhance this medallion using Gimp ONLY.

So far this is what I have with the slots, I need your guys comments and tips on how to improve this, Feel free to edit this yourselves.