even though it took me all of yesterday and a bit of today to finish this, im pretty proud of it but im open to critisim, which is kind of why im posting it here;

I also would like to know if its good enough to sell at stores because if it is, ill use it as my shop banner
xD

While I don't know much about banners, I think I could give a little opinion.

I really like the color scheme, it all comes together quite nicely. While you used lots of pretty graphics, I think it looks a little overdone. I would suggest maybe moving the text "Broken pencil" to the left a little more, and enlarging the picture of the pencil and moving it over as well. I think that would lower the need to fill in the background with two many different graphics. Once again, I don't know a lot about banner making or what people who want banners are looking for, so it might be fine. That's just what I thought from looking at it.

I do my fair bit of photoshopping here and there. ^^ But this is just an opinion

It definitely matches your name, the colour scheme and blending with colours is done really well! Perhaps the pencil is a little too obvious, the cropped image either looks like is very pasted or very blurry... I like how the background looks very pencil-like to match with the theme and how the scribbles give it a bit of an emo feel. I would say though as a banner, it has a lot of empty space. Perhaps the wording is too small and sprucing up the wording with more effects definitely adds to it but overdoing it could not make it look like the main text... The patterning or brushing depending on which you used looks nice with the effect you created as well as the little fogginess on the top. Blurred borders always work! XD

Great job all in call, nice composition with the background! Ad I hope whatever I said does not hurt your feelings... I'm very sorry if it did...

I'd rate it 6/10. I'm a hard critic :] If you can't handle my criticism, stop viewing here. I don't want you to hate me. I am just speaking my opinion.

I think that you just slapped some brushes together from celestial star and called it a banner. What you should do it try to blend it together. The strips and swirlies do not go together. either go all strips or all swirlies. There are ways to blend those two together, but it isn't found here.

The font should be a little bit bigger and try to place it in a nice spot. The center would do but don't put it at bottom center. It just looks out of place. Also, the white font doesn't work either in my opinion. Its too bright. Try a darker color like the color of the pencil. Hey, maybe get a font that's handwritten and make it look like the pencil wrote it. Just an idea~

Sorry if i offended you in anyway. I used to like it when i was criticized hard. Just makes me work harder and listen to real people's opinions. =] If you need any help with banners, just PM me.