Galneda's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Vacation For StrawberryClock]

For an MS Paint job, this is actually pretty good! I like the choice of colors.

If you needed to improvement, I'd keep an eye out for shadows in relation to the light source. You kinda had a little bit of that going on with the highlighted contours of StrawberryClock facing the sun, but the illusion is dropped because of the lack of shadows on the sand. Even if you just did an eye-drop tool on the sand, opened up the color pallette, and made that color SLIGHTLY darker, it would've worked.

Nicely done, voted 5

TheGamechanger responds:

I'll take your tips into effect. Thanks!

[Brock Samson]

*swoon*...He's my hero.

Well done! And nice creative decision to reference the pilot episode!

[Bear With Me]

Enviable hair/fur strand detailing and shading. Wonderful job, and it's evident you worked hard on it. Fav'd and Fived!

TheLoyalMeat responds:

Thank you very much man, took me a long time so i'm glad it shows, appreciate it :)

[soldiers of allah]

I don't get it. I like the black flames that arc downward from the windows and trace before falling off the two ladies, but the content doesn't reach me. Its like, I can tell whats supposed to be interpreted is some sort of a statement, but either there wasn't much care into emoting what that statement is from YOU or everything is just so sloppily thrown together that the message falls apart for ME.

Either way, something is failing to translate. Who are these people? Why are their faces in particular poorly cropped out into Windows error messages? Is that supposed to mean something to me? As art, this is loose....but that just means it ain't my cup of tea.

[SJV]

Textures. Textures everywhere.

I like this! This is really cool...I even like the intentional framing, like how the monster/kid is so distant. Stashed away and isolated. You could read a lot into this. Easy Five and Fav.

[Clayface]

How have I not heard of you before? First thing coming out of my mouth was just "WOAAHH"

This thing is REALLY freakin' cool! Great job!

[Doomsday Process]

Awesome walkthrough, with a kickass end-product!

(I've always loved Doomsday, too)
I'm really going to be studying this closely, because I'm trying to shake the habit, or at least branch out from my style of black-ink articulating every detail and shape of a character. What I do is really comic-booky, and I'd like to do something like this. More "Fine Art" illustrations.

The double light-source does wonders for the characters dimensions, and there's no flaws I can find. He looks ready for League of Legends. TEN OUTTA TEN, and fived!

[Nightfall]

Everything about this is masterful. The sky, the water looks real...the horizon, and the illusion of depth by shading whats closer to be darker, and the further land to be softened. I love the ships, its just...wow.

What is Vue and how did it particularly lend a hand in this things creation?

1600 responds:

Thanks! Vue is software for creating 3D environments that I used to create the sky and water and some of the land. I actually don't know how to use it all that well yet, but it's really convenient for making a base image to paint on.

[Earth's continents]

I love it for it's symbolism, and it's wonderful looking art. But there is a TREMENDOUS oversight...I kinda wish a middle-eastern or Indian woman was in there, nestled in between Africa and Asia. They are beautiful, with or without the hijab.

There's no way I can deduct on that in score, because I love the art as a whole. But by including everyone except them, ignoring how much of the earth's population they compose, it makes it seem like a deliberate omission from the composition...even if its likely that wasn't the case.

[Pleasure]

"So much wrong with this?"

Are you nuts? This is great!

stnkjuc responds:

Teeth, lower lip, and her left (our right) eye lacks depth. But thank you, it means a lot! :)