TheDyingSun's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Bomb-Berry Pie [Retro]]

Dang, you really nailed the effect! My eyes are making me think it's coming closer mate! Nice line work as well!

[Self-Portrait Surreal Painting]

I personally love the overall concept and you have excellent idea of form. You just have a few things to work on that would really make this pop. Making sure you use sharper details in area of interest would be helpful. As for the area of non interest such as the background it's helpful to still keep it clean. For this piece's background I believe the clouds being finished would help to add more. Creating more pronounce highlights and areas where other light sources affect a subject is very important as well. The lighting on the skin and beard has to be crisper. Overall, just make sure to focus on sharpness of the piece and not muddy up the details. Harder highlights will help with this along with not being afraid to use small brushes. In my personal experience, you can use a few circle brushes with pressure for size and opacity and come out with clean looking pieces. If you have any questions just ask. And you're almost there with you're pieces! Again, don't be afraid to use detail! Keep it up!

DaemmonArts responds:

Thank you so much for your comment and advices.
The next one I will try to make it better and remember your words.
:D

[Cranberry Sprite Waifu]

Along needs work in this, but I can say working with color and an attempt at making a visual focus is visible. However, the anatomy needs quite a lot of work, and even using references a bit here and there is a good introduction to it. I understand the font is hand-drawn, but not all of us are good at lettering, stick to the given fronts in your program and mess around with them from there. Take a look a real life shading to get a feel for how things really react to light. You need a cleaner set pattern as well. However, the graphic for the pattern aren't all that bad. Hope I helped, good luck! (Take it one thing at a time, don't overwhelm yourself, no one becomes Picasso in a night)

[darren's new year]

While I can see the underlying anatomy, the shading is not that to be desired of and more tones with sharper contrast might help. Try actually drawing the fireworks as well, while they make be difficult, use the current drawing you have as a reference, not as part of the full actual pieces. Overall, anatomy, shading, possibly color, and overall experimentation is needed. Good luck!

TVisDaddy responds:

so like, I never really get Critique// Constructive Criticism like this I wanna say thank you! it really means a lot to me when people tell me stuff like this! I'm always looking to get better and better ^^ thank you very much! I'll make sure to work as hard as I can to fix this ^^
(sorry I'm alil late I kinda just got Newgrounds hh i have no idea wtf I'm doing ;w;)

[ALIC-3]

Lovely perspective! The colors make things pop as well! However, I think you should add more detail to the head of the head of the person in the drawing. The drawings looks odd without a detailed main focus. But otherwise, you have everything nailed down quite well! Keep up the awesome work!

[[COM] Angry Beaver]

Pretty good on the technical side, however, I think you need to rework the forms on the face a bit. The mouth is a bit too far from the center, and the shading reflects this. The eyes are uneven in height which gives a bit of an uncanny feeling to the character making it look like it has a serious medical problem. The last thing to watch for might be balance in the character. While I understand the concept of chibi, making sure that the character has balance in this style is so much more stressed due to the head size and implied weight of it. Just keeping an eye out for general stuff like this is helpful. Keep up the good work!

[minimalist heavy]

*coughs*
Misha is his name if you follow the comics (which are pretty cool to read).
Anyway, I love the stab at minimalism especially with the use of only three colors. Understanding contrast and color is a big part of composition in anything. With minimalism, you don't have to completely go all the way down with details though. I would suggest using minimalism as a way to exaggerated important features of a character, their posture, and expression. As an example, exaggerating the basic shapes of his stern facial expression is a great way to use minimalism. You did do this but, and I rarely say this, it's too detailed. Translating his face into the most important sharp shapes might become more interesting. Take what I say as you will, I haven't touched minimalism for a while. Nevertheless, you're balance and posture is perfect to the character and I hope to see more from you in the future!

monoko13 responds:

Should be noted that Mikhail is what his sisters call him since its short for Mikhail. Spy even calls him Mikhail in TF2's Old wounds comic. ALso thanks for the feedback and reply, I really appreciate it honestly! Minimalism isnt my specialty so it was fun to tackle.

[Charizard in binary]

HOL UP. Yes the description is too long, try to keep it a decent length, but not a full lab-report (those aren't fun to write).
Back to what I was here for:
SWEET MOTHER OF FLUFF! You have an amazing sense of color, light, and shading! I don't think I can go through everything specifically that needs to be fixed, but from what I (skimmed over) saw in the desc, you know a lot of what's wrong. So yeah, anatomy and perspective, just look at some stuff for that and with practice comes perfect! Good luck!

monoko13 responds:

Oh thanks for looking at my pic and for giving it a rating and comment, I'm really glad that you like it. One thing though I'm a tad confused about, did you mean that the description isn't fun to read but accidentally write or do you actually mean they're not fun to type out and stuff don't mind me asking?