Fro's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[KP's new selfie]

This is kind of fun.

Is the character closest to the front of the picture the one holding the camera for a selfie? If so his arm is in a very awkward position and should be facing more towards the front instead of to the side. The line art is some of your best compared to more recent submissions that seem a bit blurry and sloppy. There's a few spots that could use slight touch ups such as the one finger on the closest characters hand has a line that's way too thick compared to the rest and the lines from what I can assume is some sort of hoody string goes into the finger line a little bit.

Is he thinking about watermelon? That's a weird food thought. I'm thinking it's actually pizza, but with how small the dots are it doesn't look like it's representing pepperoni so I'm going with watermelon here.

I don't like the term selfie in this picture since well... a selfie suggests that you are by yourself, hence the name... selfie. This is more of a togetherie. I imagine this is what a group of friends this age would do in a picture in real life so I think you've captured the feeling of friendship pretty good here.

It's like, alright everyone do something cool for the picture. Guy up front hasn't slept in a few days and gets the full wrath of the camera, two out of the remaining three do something cool, but the one guy has no clue what to do in the amount of time given so he gives the generic thumbs up.

So just some random stuff. The guy giving the thumbs up has an awkward stance. It seems like we should see more of his legs than what we see here. The guy doing the yoga type pose should probably have a part of his foot pop out somewhere, but it just kind of disappears. His toes should be popping out between the front arm and body of the guy up front.

I also think that there's too much empty space on top. If your picture was cut more like it's icon I think it would look a lot better. My eyes get drawn to this empty spot and am left with a feeling that there should be something there.

Overall, a fun picture. I like your style. It would be fun to see this one colored in and where you used dark thick lines for shadows like on the dabbers neck you could use some shading to represent the shadow instead.

KingPug672 responds:

Yeah I appreciate it. I get what you mean, yes the selfie was in an odd position, but it BTW the random thick lines are part of my personal style.

[Yumification - Air Battle]

I like it a lot. (Points to madness combat poster on bedroom wall) Chances are I'm being a bit biased because I'm a madness fan, but oh well.

This looks like a Neo/Agent Smith bsttke scene.

Is that an extended clip in the handgun or is he just happy to see me? Or is he reloading?

The red may be a little too intense. It kind of takes away from the details of the characters a little bit.

This style would make a really cool Madness animation. Any plans for that in the future?

YumiPan responds:

That definitely is an extended clip and I definitely wanted to go for a matrix type feel.

I am a beginner when it comes to animation, I only use madness sprites, but I am slowly working my way to more fluid drawn animations and might use this style for it.

[How to get Modded]

Wait... I thought you just took a kids picture off the internet and photoshopped "I'm sorry Tom" over it... This is.. an amazing rendition of the events that happened on 4/1/19.

I will cherish it forever.

DrSevenSeizeMD responds:

No I made this myself with sweat, tears, and broken crayons, JUST for Tom Fulp!

[Barn Owl]

I don't think I'd change this one up at all. I think it's actually pretty stunning. I love the details in the eyes and the entirety of the picture has this really nice balance to it.

LiamRomK responds:

Oh thank you very much.

[Cute little pichu]

Nice job.

Something about his eyes and emotionless features give this kind of a creepy feeling though.

Brandobotic responds:

Thank you and yeah he has a bit of a thousand yard stare... Still cute though😁

[Valentines]

Could use a little Fro, but it'll do nicely.

ZetoSoul responds:

Maybe someday.

[Punky Face]

This got reviewed by the Review Request Club after I left the site for awhile. :( I missed it by 7 years haha. Well, better late than never.

Was this taken as a picture or was it scanned in? I feel like if it were scanned in it would have been pretty easy to make the quality a bit higher and to zoom in to make it a bit bigger. The only bad that I have to say about it is how small it is and how it's a little fuzzy. I also didn't like the choice of lettering on the top. I feel like it wasn't very fitting with the theme of the picture.

Other than that it's hard to get into the gritty details of this submission because of how far away it is. It looks like it would be a pretty awesome tattoo design though.

Should I add the tag? ... yeah why not...

~ Review Request Club ~

Decky responds:

Cheers for the review Fro.

As promised I will reply to them all once I get round to it.

Thinking back I believe this was an upload from a picture taken with a mobile phone :/. Not even smart phones back then. So yeah, I was young and foolish. Not a piece I show off anymore.

Cheers again for the review.

[Onslaught]

I really like the background and colors used here. The shading and shadows were pretty awesome. On the topic of shadows I feel like the shadows of the rocks and his body maybe should have been facing straight back instead of to the back right corner. I understand that there seems to be a strong light source taking it that direction, but the shadows seem to completely ignore any effect that the lightning around Jack Wernicke would have on the direction of the shadows. Also, it would have been really cool to see a shadow of the boss with a darker outline to really give a good feel for how intense the battle is about to be.

I feel like some of the proportions are off a little. The lower body is very long while the upper body seems to be a little short. The arms bug me a little because the forearms are the same size or bigger than the upper arm. The ankles seem extremely tiny for the size of his legs and the neck seems odd for some reason. I think it may be how much of a point it comes to on the top. On the hands the fingers are odd sizes. It's weird that some fingers that should be smaller than the thumb in girth are actually thicker.

Overall it's a really awesome piece and a new approach on a Madness character. It would be pretty cool to see a flash series created using characters in this style.

Swffr responds:

I did the shading and lighting really late at night so it was kinda rushed, i'll keep that in mind for future drawings; Agreed, the body anatomy and proportions are off and should have been adjusted accordingly (this was originally just a pose sketch) I felt like this was perfect for Jack and incorporated it anyways. Overall, a lot could be added and fixed on every aspect of this. I appreciate the time you took to critique my drawing, thank you.

[Madness Day 2017 gif]

So this kind of blew my mind. To this point, even after looking at and reviewing hundreds of submissions I had no clue that you could post an animated gif. That's just awesome.

So I really like the style and shading all around. The blood splatter were neat, but since this is animated it would have been cool if the dripped a little and were a little more "fluid" if that makes sense.

The quality is a bit fuzzy. I was wondering if that had something to do with the process of uploading or if it turned out that way before you submitted it. If it's the second one then there needs to be some cleaning up before it gets submitted in my opinion.

Overall an awesome little gif. that was simply mad.

CaptainJackTHAC0 responds:

thanks for the feedback! I just found out recently you could upload gifs as art XD

[Japanese Tiger]

(Basically insert copy and past of my last review here, but don't actually do that because it wouldn't be a good thing to do in the review section)

Again, could use some contrast like your last piece. Maybe a red dragon attacking the the tiger? In all seriousness something red in the background instead of just the white could really make this stick out and look better.

MonoFlauta responds:

Almost same copy and paste of the last review hahaha. Same thing, just copied it on paper and give it a shot. I guess that by that time I still believed I could get better at drawing haha