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.

add a picture of a guy running, and emboss it to make it look realistic (i don't know if gimp can do that).

I could add a picture of a guy running, but it would be really hard to blend in by only using GIMP. I could add wings..

i would ad like a chain to it
because it looks too much like a coin now

Well, I am trying to make Runners League related. Something related to running in toribash

you could make it more like a Medellin or an award like the Olympics medal

make it have glare [like shiny] u could just add a shade of grayish white and go to softshade and blend it in to make it shine

Eh, I'll give it a shot, I hope it works out though. I want to make it realistic, but thats impossible in GIMP.

Make an outline all around the medal of toris running
like a imprint, also use a bit of a shade darker like copper for the gold.

Im trying, but not getting anywhere, anyone else want to try and save the day, or help me out by putting 2 wings on both sides?