Graphic 1 - 2/7 - For me, this graphic is just kind of thrown together/slapped together with minimal effort at making it blend. The cut on the money sign still leaves some white residue, same with the actual player render and the font is just kind of there... overall I felt like with some actual purposeful blending and layout designing, this could've been bumped up.
Graphic 2 - 2/7 - For me, it's borderline a 'meme' graphic but I felt like with some of the additions to the gfx I could justify bumping it up slightly. it has all the... beginnings to being a nice gfx, but again almost feels rushed for me. The saver for me is the bubbles around the panda (speech bubbles?) and the placement of everything at least looks a bit better executed. Blending/lighting/effects however still non-existent.
Graphic 3 - 1/7 - This one however, I cannot justify bumping up as there just.. isn't much to it. The effort is very lackluster on this one, just seems like the tweet was slapped on top of a domino's picture and then a man with a cigar slapped ontop of that. I did like that the logo was added to the hat, but it just wasn't enough to give it the boost.
Graphic 4 - 3/7 - This one to me applies the most effort out of the bunch, so I'd like to reward it as such. The background mostly blends in with itself, and the render actually is placed decently though the cut (especially of the crown) could've been done just a bit more smooth. Where the points are 'lost' for me to keep it a 3 is again the blending/effects aspect, there just is none... It's a render, with a crown, a background and some text. Blending it together with additional stock work is my biggest recommendation here.
Graphic 5 - 2/7 - Gotta be honest... this one was borderline haha. Similar to the other work, this has all of the basic necessities of a graphic, it has a background, some text and a render with a logo on it. Where the score comes from once again is the lack of it feeling "complete". While it has all of the essentials to BE a graphic, there is really no direction, blending or quality. The render is just kind of there, the background is just kind of there and the text feels slapped on.