TheDyingSun's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[PAL Player Faction]

Pretty cool logo! I feel like the entire logo would be made up of glowing panels because the center piece is already glowing. It feels kind of flat without everything else glowing. It might be helpful to add a small glow effect to everything according to their color, maybe about 2-4 pixels big? I shouldn't be as specific with that, but I hope you understand what I'm getting at. I see that the center is opaque and I believe you should make the logo look like it's engraved into a piece of metal or plastic. A gradient and some texture would help achieve that. It would add more depth and make it more like a badge in a sense. For use as a simple Identifying logo, it's ok, but when presenting something, it's always good to take that extra step! Still, it's slick and captures a futuristic look really well! I love the choice of front and how the ring around the entire logo gets smaller around the top and has increasing space sizes. Keep up the good work!

Tattorack responds:

Thanks a lot for your feedback! It is really appreciated.
I'll think about it and run this by the faction leader.

[Angel of Gratitude]

The line art and form has a wonderful elegance to it, but I think your shading should reflect this. Try messing around with colors for shadows and be aware of ambient lighting. Shadows aren't strictly black (sometimes maybe) and tend to reflect the environment around them. Experiment with colored lines as well. If you're line art is on another layer, use alpha lock to help yourself paint them in however you please. The wings look angelic and that really adds to the piece. Experiment further with brushes, especially for your background. Even using textured brushes in some cases can help with shading the color in line art. I can't wait to see what else you have to tell through drawing!

[Pumpkin Mage]

Interesting look to the character! I would say he just needs some cleaner shading. The shading on the character should be well defined emphasizing the crevasses and roughness in his character. While adding more detail to the pumpkin pieces, I would say try to find a simpler way to do the details for the roots otherwise. To accomplish this you can do quick drawing sessions where you time yourself trying to find the most efficient way to emulate a certain texture. The root details also kind of make it hard for the viewer to find a certain focal point, which I would have to assume is the face. Shading can also work to you advantage in that as well. The shadow created by the light on his hand should somewhat darken the arm in the foreground causing the torso to be a bigger focus. After that the light is very close to his face and should light it up the most creating a sort of contrast in that way. Thing is, you have a wonderful sense of structure and anatomy that is visible. The character balance is only slightly off, but it something you get the hang of. Anyway, keep at it!

[Plague Jester]

The drawing truly has an interesting look to it! The line art is great! There are a few places I would say the line art needs a tiny bit of reworking, such as the beak and the right hand, but that's the challenge while working in one tone. The balance of the character feels a bit off, but I can feel some of the power behind the character's stance and motion. I might say to make the background cleaner as the blurred background kind of takes away from the clean line art. Possibly make the ground he's standing on reflective to show that while he looks mythical he still exists in the world around him. Try messing around with color for the shadows in the background as well. Black lines on black shading kind of ruins the mystical feel of the light blue magic and wings. I like how you did the effects over the plague doctor's right hand as well! And... I know that was a big array of items, but I hope I helped. Keep up the good work!

[Ivan Van]

IVAN VAN
IVAN VAN
(Get in my van)

[blood stop]

Wonderful style! I might clean up the smoke effect a little bit and the placement of the character's right foot is a bit awkward. I would love to see some hue shading within the drawing. Using blue shadows in this case would look really cool! Keep it up, it really does look beautiful!

MatthewLopz responds:

thanks man that's some good critic i def get ya on the placement of the foot, when it comes to shadowing, i try to make my drawings have plain colors with no light or shadow, lately with a few pieces i've experimented with some basic shadowing but it's not something i wanna get too in depth i feel like having no light or shadow is one of the things that people use to identify my art, but maybe a few shadows here and there on this one would have looked nice, again ty for the critic and the nice comments ;D

[Red, Black and Blue.]

I love the feel to this! It's just eye candy! The background looks lovely and the effects are done perfectly. Now I just need to find my 3D glasses. Happy Independence Day mate!

GrimJimmy responds:

Hey thanks! Happy 4th to you, too.

[Viking Axe]

The texturing and surface imperfections look lovely! However, since this is a 3D model, I might find another way to attach the blade to the handle. Looking at the model makes me nervous that if I were to swing the axe the blade might fall out. This might be a personal nitpick, but I hope you get what I'm saying.

HighKing responds:

Thanks for the C&C! But the way the head is attached is by a wedge, being driven down by a hammer in the middle of the shaft at the top. Which basically squeezes the shaft against the head and stops it in place.

[1OO FANS on NG]

Congrats man! However, I'm not here for that C:<
I've fallen in love with you style and just how expressive it can be. I might experiment with some shading though. No no no, don't do the crazy rendering I do. (Please, you'll regret it.) I just might suggest having a brighter highlight on your pieces. In the case of the tank I might add a desaturated sort of gold. Something just a little brighter on the tank to make the drawing just pop a little more. I assume your light source is the sun so I might add a darker shading to the demon and crown to show that it's back lit. I would add more of a shadow of the demon on to the tank and possibly darken the dark orange you have on your tank already. Just keep in mind light sources. The skulls should be fine, but I might add more fading mountains in the distance. I think it might be interesting to have the words in the back were drawn as it they were a giant mountain carved into.
That's about it! But why are the zeroes in the "100" in the title Os?

GrimJimmy responds:

Thanks for the advice!
Also, the "O" zeroes are for style.

[Wander's mask]

I love the concept of the mask itself, however, the mask needs more rendering and this piece overall needs more "meat" to it. Pieces like this can stand alone, but they do need a little extra to do so.