Decky's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[It's All Blooming Now]

Extremely impressive. The sheer amount of depth that you have gotten from this image is staggering, I'm also a fan of the ghost-like creatures and the textured fade around their eyes and smoke trails, they look truly gassy (in a good way not a blotted, flatulent way). A great use of a mainly neutral colour scheme, keeping the piece easy to look at.

Just a couple of small things stand out to me as needing improvement. The trees seem a lot less crisp then the rest of the image, maybe a very thin black line around some of the edges. The cage hanging from the tree also seems to be lacking. It comes across as an after thought that could have benefited from some more time. I think this could be me but I would have cropped just the top 200 pixels, as it seems like just a little too much space up there.

All in all this is a really good piece of art and one of the best I've reviewed on Newgrounds for a while, keep creating the macabre, you're good at it.

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[These Goddamn Bats Sketch]

As a massive fan of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas I was instantly drawn to this piece when I saw it in The Review Request Club. I think that you have missed something by not making it more Ralph Steadman inspired with the think swooping black lines and deliberate ink splats. what I'm saying is that it is hard to create a fan piece for something with as distinct an illustrated style without paying homage to that.

Taking that aside you have created a decent sketch here. It just appears to be unfinished and needs more though put into it. Ideas, like maybe the ash/smoke turning into bats.

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[Angry Head]

Interesting, you have improved dramatically since I last reviewed a piece of yours. I don't think I could do skin as well as you now, it looks superb. Having said that there are a couple of things that stand out to me.

The eyes, I get that you were clearly trying to make them different so have stylized them in the way you have but I think that it just hasn't worked as well as it could have. Maybe if you had made them seem more like spray paint that could have worked.

Another thing that I would have changed is the background. The textured effect is a little too much for my taste, if the texture was but onto a separate layer on say Photoshop, then the opacity turned down or even a gradient effect put on it so it fades out from the center to highlight the stripes it could have looked better.

There are great bits about this piece, one of your best. Heading in the right direction, keep it up.

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[Not a Life]

I personally find it hard to review piece such as this because I'm not sure to think of what appears to be just a pattern with a filter over the top. Never the less I'll give it my best shot and try to get past the fact that it's not my sort of thing.

I find the amounts of black a little sparse, I think you could have gone into more detail there with maybe some different patterns overlapped on the top with different transparency levels. Something in the center to draw the eye more to it would be good to, maybe a tribal ring of sorts.

As far as patterns go it's not bad but as I said it's not really my cup of tea. I'd say the next step for you is putting something in front of that background.

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[Doctor]

Love it. Simple as really. I've always been a fan of any artwork that has a Victorian doctor's mask in it. Wanted to get a replica one for myself for quite some time now, but anyway, on with the review...

A couple of things that I noticed could have done with some improvement were the hat, I feel it seems a little flat topped, if it was just a little taller it would have worked better, even a full top hat would have been good, it is a Victorian doctor after all. There's also a smug along the rim of the hat that could have done with editing out. The hair (?) that drapes down the back of him seems a bit basic and lacking detail for my liking too.

It is a great piece and the fade from his hair and the shadows at the bottom is a particular good point for me as it is done very cleanly, the glean on the eye is also a highlight. Keep up with your art and I'm sure you will create something even better next time.

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[Last Chance]

A great improvement on previous works. Your use of shading to create depth stands out to me as something that was missing from your other pieces.

There are one or two things about the cyclops that I noticed could do with some improvements. Firstly the eye and mouth seem quite flat to its face, like it's painted on or some kind of mask, more detail around them could bring out the mouth and sink in the eye. Secondly the foot that is furthest away looks a little too triangular and misshapen to me. Thirdly the bottom left (viewers left) rib shouldn't stop before it reaches the edge of his torso like it does currently, it should continue behind the leg.

The guy is done almost without fault although his closest leg looks like it's kinda bent in a funny angle. This is only a small error and really not a huge problem with the piece.

As I stated before this is the best art I've seen you produce. The background is epic, maybe a little more detail on the ground wouldn't have been a bad thing but the sky and sun are perfect as is the rock that is behind the cyclops. Keep it up.

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ArcadeHero responds:

Oh... So... Thank you Decky :)
Awesome tips and review :)

[Madonna and Colt]

Very interesting, I get the feeling that there is some reference to something that I'm not getting but taken as just a piece it's a real triumph of simplicity, the circular frame was a great touch too.

It took me a while to notice that there was a bird in the piece, maybe it could have been a little bigger and the right leg just seemed a little too thin at the knee. Too be honest these are just nit picking opinions as I do think this is a great piece and really couldn't be improved much at all.

Keep it up

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[Wildrose a.k.a Jenine Spencer]

I have read the other reviews that you have got for this piece and there are quite a few good points being given. So much so in fact that I'm finding it hard to think of something to say about the piece that isn't mentioned right below me. If I were you I'd take as much help as Absinthe is willing to offer you.

The first thing that jumped out at me when I saw the piece was her knees. They look kinda out of shape, almost painful to look at. Also her left leg appears to be slightly bigger at the thigh and calf to me.

I did note that nobody has mentioned what they like about the piece, so here we go: The hands are great, I really struggle with them myself but I think you've mastered them here. The hair is also shaded and shaped perfectly for a cartoon of this style.

Keep trying to improve and I'm sure you will eventually.

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[Django Unchained fan-art]

There is a simplicity to this piece that although charming I don't feel fits with the film. Quentin Tarantino as in my opinion always been about over the top violence and heavy use of dark vectors in his movie art. Obviously this is a different take on things but it's too much comedy,even for Django Unchained which is not the most serious of films about a serious subject matter.

The piece is humorous and that claws it back some stars but if a boarder with some kind of wild west pattern on it was used it'd make it more suited and also make it more talented yet simplistic instead of just simplistic.

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ArcadeHero responds:

Thanks for review, i'm agree with you.
It's just a simple fun pic :D

[Hell and Landlord]

A really amazing piece, The way that it is drawn put me in mind of illustrations in an old fairy tale book. As I wrote that I read the description and see that was the inspiration. It's simple, haunting and makes the viewer use their imagination to guess what is going on in the piece.

Not much to improve on, I'm just not the biggest fan of how the girl is drawn, the proportions seem a little off as she appears to be very broad.

ewtrtw responds:

Thank you for your comment and opinion! It's really important for me)