Great crit, really helped!

So what i'm going to do is don't work with gradients just yet, start with block colours and maybe add highlights in places and keep the abstract seperate from the whole thing.

I'm still poking around in the world of professional design - it's hella different to just making effects and your focal look good. It's also nice to be learning something new because there's only so much you can do with making signatures in forums.

Thanks again guys!