Fro's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Cammy]

Pretty decent.

I noticed a lot of small things that slowly pulled the score down from this little by little. Let's start from the top... and by that I mean the top of the picture, which would be her legs. Looks right between her hands. Oh no white space that shouldn't be there! I'm assuming you forgot to magic eraser that out and turn it into the background?

So let's work our way up her body and down the picture. There's the white space again between the breast and the arm! This is where I wasn't sure what you did. If you make this part the background then it makes her body look rather weird. Her breasts are already odd shaped, but this would really through off her chest section. If it were part of her shirt it would probably look a bit better.

Other than that it's a decent piece of art all in all. Like I say for most pieces of art it would be cool to see her in an actual background instead of just against the transparent grey of newgrounds.

masterTUTA99 responds:

Thanks a bunch for taking the time to review, and to notice my rookie mistakes. It truly helps to have someone take some time to help me out.

[Inside]

Man that's awesome!

That's something that you would expect to see in a horror movie or game such as Silent Hill. I want to hear more about how you made this sculptor. It looks like a piece of wood for sure, but I can't tell if you put fake teeth in or sculpted it/painted it to make it look like teeth.

Anyway, there is something to improve on. Your presentation of the picture. Get the person out of the picture, but a nice background behind it such as a spooky scene outside later at night or just a dark corner of a room. Anything to make this thing look a bit more evil.

You could scare some kids with this thing at Halloween. :P

kralid responds:

thanks man, well its actually a piece of wood i found, i made a mold of some guy teeth and put them there, actually its the only photo i have of it, someone stole it, then i found it but whit all the teeth broken im planig to restore it :)

[Rough Draft OCT REF: Kazumi]

Not bad.

The only thing that I can notice faulty with the girl is how wide her shoulders are compared to the rest of her body and also how the body is a little off. I feel that the size of her head and shoulders should make her about 3 inches taller, a couple of inches wider at the hips, arms, midsection, and legs.

The guns themselves don't look that great. The clip that comes out of that gun is way too small for how long you have made the chamber. It's almost like the guns were made backwards. Even the smallest guns are just as long as they are tall.

The quality of the girl is done well though. What you would expect for the style that you used. I personally wouldn't mind seeing the character put into some sort of background such as a street or an alley. (Even though it was a character design it's nice to see where the character would be)

Also, what's up with the quality of the picture? It's a little low for what you would expect photoshop to export. On top of that the words on the picture are slightly too small to read comfortably unless viewed in full size. The background is actually nice, but like I said I would enjoy a scene better.

All around a decent picture, but I feel that the ratios are off a bit.

Digishinobi responds:

Thanks for the comment! ^_^ yeah this is a little over a year old, and now I'm in art school and have developed my proportions ALOT more since this pic. I'm happy you finally got around to commenting on this! I'm still trying to figure out the whole scouting thing, so maybe you know :)

On a side note: here's an updated pic if you wanna see: http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/digishinobi/mm-final-round-cover

[Newgrounds Knight]

I like it.

I know that you wanted to make this different than the newgrounds level icon, but there is one missing eliminate from the level icon that you should include in this piece. That would be the shine. Your knight looks like his armor never quite shined even when it was new. It has that dirty gold look to it. The shine gives this epicness to the knight.

Other than that the drawing is pretty well done. I think I envision the knight a little more bigger in terms of muscle mass, but I guess a guy in armor and a sword doesn't have to be all buff and whatnot.

It would be sweet if you put a background to this picture. Perhaps instead of having the icon be so big in the top left hand corner you could import the blue aura as the background to the picture itself. That or scene where the character is outside because I think blue and green would compliment this picture well.

JakBaronKing responds:

Truth be told, I'm not very good at photoshop.

This is just using a paint bucket.

As for the background, I do believe the contest I entered for this piece required a solid white background.

[NG Logo Redesign Final - HW]

Nice, simple.

It's nice and simple, but it could use a little more to make it more interesting. The grey really doesn't fit the newgrounds grey, but I guess it doesn't really have to if you're making a new logo.

I like the gradient that you used, but like I said, it could use a little more. I think making the shape 3D or at least adding a shadow to it would make it much better. I personally think it would look best if you were to make the NG 3D and to make the Newgrounds have a shadow or reflection of some sort.

Overall, nice, simple, but could use a little bit to make it better. Congrats on the A+ and everything.

JakBaronKing responds:

It's funny you should say that.

Because I originally intended to use a "shadow-effect" on the logo, but my teacher said it was a bit much.

He said "Simplicity is the best impact for logos"

It's not so much as making an awesome lookin' logo.

But rather something so simple and catchy that in a mere half second a person from afar or driving really fast on a freeway will be able to recognize it.

Too complicated logos tend to be miss-looked because everyone's in a rush.

[Oh the Joy of the Undead Party]

Hmm, I may see a couple problems here.

I think that there are two potential problems here. I say potential because the one may actually cause the other one, but it's hard to tell. The picture is actually very busy. Perhaps a little too busy for the eyes. There's so much going on in the main picture and no real focal point.

Maybe it isn't too busy content wise though. I think it's more about the amount of black in the room. All this black makes it hard for the viewer to tell what is what. It might be better to remove a couple of characters in general or maybe even just get rid of the black and white checkered patter on the floor.

Overall, the characters are done well, the picture looks pretty cool all in all, but it's really too busy to be a "great" piece of art in my opinion.

linda-mota responds:

Yea, the bottom is busy, even I got confused when inking the tiles. I was pressed for time when I did this for a contest on DA. I'm not sure if comic pages have a focal point, this was a silent comic that conveys a story, but I digress.

Thanks for the reveiw, it really helps. =)

[Seras Victoria]

I really like this one.

I don't like it enough to put it under my favorites, but I really like the character design here. I'll start with the only complaints that I have and they really aren't anything big.

The first thing that I notice is the arm and hand above the head. The position that it's in just puts it in an awkward spot where it looks like it's coming out of her head. The second one being that the tongue has a line through it where you had drawn the mouth. This makes it look like it's coming out of the side of the face and not out of the mouth. The last one being that I really do think that putting this character in a background of some sort would have been better this time around.

Other than that the main thing that sticks out to me is how great the colors go together. The reds, blacks, and fleshy colors are amazing in this piece. I'd love to see this stuff in a flash or movie of some sort as it's really close to looking professional.

An all around great piece of art!

linda-mota responds:

Heh, thanks for the reveiw man. It's really helped. I do agree the arm is in an akward place, thanks for pointing it out. =)

[Symbiote Ex: KING]

Nice, what did you use to draw it?

This looks like it was done by hand for sure. It seems that you used a black marker, black pen, and... what else? how did you get the grey and lighter black there? Perhaps I just have your list of materials used wrong, but it just doesn't go with those two things. What did you use? :P

I think it's a really cool character design. I usually comment on how I like to see more of a background with characters, but the way that the major color was black, the white actually acts as a nice contrast and makes the piece very pleasing to the eye.

I really like the face that you have in the upper left hand corner. The detail and the small blotch of yellow in it's eye really goes good. I would like to see a picture of this character from the front like the face there. Maybe you have in in your other art and I'll find out if you do.

An all around good character design and good presentation.

linda-mota responds:

Everything I do is by hand. No digital editing, I only use digital editing if I'm low on black ink for a solid black background. I used prisma ink pens for the smaler details, cpoic markers for the color, and Higgins black ink with a paintbrush for large areas.

I would have done a background, but this was just a character concept drawing. So yea. =P

Thanks! I wanted to give quel a better frontal veiw for his character, I will eventually draw entire scenes for his story as references.

Thank you! That means a lot! :D

[squid]

Yay, pixel stuff.

Hm, I do like pixel flashes, but as art it really needs to have a lot going on to be interesting to the viewer. This seems to be something that could be created in a few minutes. It's very simple, not really bad, but really has nothing going good for it either.

I recommend doing something with it to make it stand out more. It could be as simple as putting it in some water, whether it be floating on top of the water or underwater. You could even get a little abstract with it by giving it human features or clothing. I could see this squid with a monocle, fantasy hat, and cane for some reason. Hell, stick it in an office and make it a really original piece of art.

So yeah... sorry for the really short review and the fact that I really don't have anything to critique on just adding more content to the submission, but that's really the only thing that I can think to improve this piece.

Magical-Zorse responds:

that's cool

[Halloween bats]

Hm, very simple.

I might be a little generous with the seven, but it's probably worth more of a 6.5 in my opinion. :P It looks like something I could probably create in paint or flash with very simple tools. It's also something that I could probably draw with markers, color pencils, and paper in about 20 minutes. So effort... I can't really comment on that because I don't know how much you actually did put into this piece, but to me personally it doesn't seem like a lot.

So on to what I think you could do to make it better. I think that making the stars a lot smaller (almost like your smallest one) would really add a lot to this submission. Randomly placing them around the picture and increasing the quantity would help as well. The idea is not to put too many on, but to put enough on to be effective.

I also recommend moving the moon to the upper right hand corner. Right now it seems too small, but if you were to decrease the size of the stars it would prevent you from having to increase the size of the moon as it'll just look bigger in comparison.

The bats are alright, but I have one issue with them. The bone part of the wings should be connected by a somewhat transparent skin like a real bats would be. The wings that they have here would make them fall right to the ground as it wouldn't push any air around at all. :P

Anyway, a nice little style, but it could use some detail and a few odds and ends here to make it a much better submission.

SystemOfAtte responds:

Well i did it about 20 minutes + 10 minutes to figure out how and what to do it..
Thanks for the review. And the bats are suppose to be like that because they are more dark bones than skin (because it's suppose to be a part of halloween)
And of course the moon and stars are just for not looking too boring :D i just wanted it to be finished as fast as possible (LOL!)