Decky's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[female beauty]

Very impressive.

The way you have capture a sense of femininity and fragility in this piece is next to mind blowing. The elongation of the neck adds to the image and the earing simply couldn't have been done better making this one of the hardest art works I've reviewed on Newgrounds.

The only thing that I can spot is there seems to be a strange, dark, wavy effect at the very bottom of the figure that looks out of place, I would have spent some time in Photoshop to remove it.

An epic piece, please do keep it up.

1forthefallendreams responds:

Thanks very much for the kind words,and I appreciate your constructive criticism.I will take that in account in my future art !

[Archer and Hawk]

A nice hero and pet design (though, I wonder why it couldn't be used).

The shading on the cat and hawk is simple and effective, I particularly like how it's applied on the arms and head of the cat. I would, however, have put more time into the blocks at the bottom of the piece, a subtle stone texture and some shade to add depth would have taken the image to a new level. The sky background is a nice touch.

The Hawk would have worked better as a character design if it had more features; talons, some feathers coming from the back of the head etc. Currently, it feels like more time has been put into the cat character.

This could have been better but it's not bad at all.

Keep it up.

StitchedSquid responds:

The main problem with why I thought couldn't enter it was because I was worried that the proportions were too realistic and it may have not been cartoony enough. I'm currently working on a new entry, albeit it still may not be eligible since my style uses only proportions similar to real life.

[Buizel takes a swim]

A really awesome piece. I love the way you have captured the reflection of the sunshine coming through the water on the Buizel's back and the texture of the coral.

Maybe another Pokémon lurking in the background in the lower left of the piece would have added a new element to the image, a kind of predator and prey vibe. Alternately, a small Krabby hanging around in the coral.

It's really had to pick flaws in this so you should be proud of it.

Keep it up.

Littlepinkmonkey responds:

Thank you!
What you say is very true, I will take it with me for my next work

[Unidentified (Hitmonlee + Dragonair pokemon fusion)]

One of the best Pokémon mashups I've seen so far.

I especially like the detail in the background with what I can only assume is the blurred strobe of this fastly approaching creature. The terrified trainer below is another nice touch.

I'm not a huge fan of the light edges to the cliff face to the left, if they weren't there I think it would have made for a better looking rocks (if there is such a thing with stone) and maybe there's too many of the dark streaks coming up from the bottom and right of the piece.

An easy 4.5 stars
Keep it up

MycosynthWellspring responds:

Wow, thanks! Yeah, I agree about the rocks. I wanted to move those out closer to the camera to differentiate them from the gorge in the background, so for lack of better ideas just tied to outline their contour.
I kind of see your point on the dark streaks too - as in to limit the amount of areas with lots of sharp contrast to shift the focus away from the unimportant parts. Makes sense if that's what you meant. I just really wanted to go for that classic "superfast-worldblur" effect you can see comic and manga artists implemend to convey motion - probably overdid it, not entirely sold on that.

Thanks for the feedback and cheers, I'd definitely keep it up in the future :D

[June patreon pinup - Jane SHepard]

Not a bad pinup drawing. I like the use of warm colours, obviously used to match the hair colour (I'm guessing this as you stat a name in the description. Not familar with her but I'm guessing you didn't pick her hair colour) it works well with the setting of a beach. Keep the sand in the background very simple was another good idea.

I would say though that her lower back looks wrong, with all the lines in there it makes her look as if she skin like that on a bat's wing across her back, all demonic and Hieronymus Bosch. I would have softened those lines to give a more feminine look.

A good illustration. You did this Jane Shepard proud.

StudioPirrate responds:

thanks my friend.
I'm trying a new looser faster style with my brush strokes, not always blending everywhere to keep the picture dinamyc, but you're right, her lower back could have been worked up a wee bit more.
I'll pay attention to that next time ;)

[Medieval House]

Very neat, I like the little touchs such as the detail on the corner bricks and the supports under the wooden ledges.

I personally would have given the texture on the white and grey exterior more depth to achieve a rougher, more medieval look, a wooden texture for the struts would have been good too. Maybe make the windows transparent. It's a pain (or pane. Get it?) but I think the soild light blue windows look can really ruin a 3D model.

A good, clean model. You should be proud of it.

jsabbott responds:

I had actually planned on using hand-painted textures for this model but they just did not look right at all. Hopefully at some point in the near future I will re-do these models with either hand-painted textures or real-world textures.

[marble]

A really good example of how good 3D can be simple too. The second I saw this I could envisage it being overlaid with type and being used to promote something, in other words it looks like the graphic from a good quality corporate piece, not a bad thing.

I like the use of a brush like texture on the marble and the reflection at the bottom is executed brilliantly as well. Good stuff.

ZflxDVerdammt responds:

thank you this pretty much made my day! :)

[Payday2 -Wolf]

A great illustration, though if it was me I would have made the American flag sub graphic larger so that it came from the edge of the image and possibly the lower, right corner of the flag going behind the characters left shoulder. I would also say that having the character going off the bottom of the page with some trousers would have improved the look.

I also agree with AtomicAstro, the hands are a bit small.

Other then these things it pretty awesome.

RedAndrew responds:

Thank you for your criticism, most of this is unfixable now, only for a future, but I'm thinking of fixing the flag and make it larger, still behind his head, also the shoulders, that's just how I see it as a better image, sorry. But thank you for your advice.

[sush!]

Nice work. I like the simple colour scheme and the background that continues the use of circles for the suckers and spots on the head.

The odd little bits that I would have done differently include the eyes, which seem a little off to me, Though this might have been a personal choice made by you to make the character a little cross-eyed. I'm also not sure I would have had the shadow going straight through the spots on the head, maybe a slight off set would have made this look a little better. These are very minute issues I have with the piece.

It's a good piece of cartoon work, keep it up.

gummyart responds:

Thank you so much!

[Proud Parent]

A great illustration. I like all of the little details that you have added such as the highly textured feel to the bottom right corner. It looks almost like it's made out of wood to me. The shine on the bottom lip of the jester is a brilliant example of how to draw lips. I may look back to this if I need a reference for lips myself. The same can be said for the teeth.

I have to say that if it was me I would have turned the shadows darker after I had scanned it in with some photo editing software and maybe turned the saturation up on that circular background and the blood. I just think that it might have made the details pop from the image more.

Epic work as ever.
Keep the stuff coming.

SourCherryJack responds:

Thanks for the review man, really happy to hear the praise on the the mouth, that was something I put a lot into so I'm glad its catching some attention. I totally agree on the background's reaction with the blood pillars, I was originally going to do a much more intricate background the whole way through but ran out of time so lesson learned for next time I suppose.
Thanks again, I'll definitely keep 'em coming!