Fro's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Harrison MkII]

I hate to start off a review with a request, but..

Do you think that you could give this bad boy a paint job, make it animated, and covert it to something such as an avi file? If you could then you would be coauthored on a Christmas/star wars parody that I'll be submitting this Christmas.

Alright, no more request, but please PM me if you're interested. I couldn't tell if my eyes were playing tricks on me or if there was a shadow below the walker. I guess that's how you want shadows to be though so great job there.

It's a great 3-D image and I've had a little practice with using some 3-D stuff many years ago back in high school. It wasn't the easiest thing thing in the world, but after you figured it out it was pretty easy. I'll admit though I haven't made anything as complex as this so great job.

I could definitely see this in a setting with snow, blood smeared into the white snow, smoke in the distance and perhaps some soldiers running by slightly faded in the background.

So yeah if you make this with color and background it would be by far one of my favorite pieces of art on newgrounds. As the plain model it kind of goes down to the lower section of my favorites and more for bookmarking purposes then having it as a favorite.

Kinsei responds:

thank you very much for the review.
I might be interested in a collaboration, but I have to get some other stuff straightened out in my life first.

As for the paint job every one has been wanting, I do have one, but I have been holding off on posting it cause I am working on repair bay that the mechs go in to, and I want to post them all at once. After that I might do just the model with a paint job.
As for the shadow, that is just a way I rendered it. the lighting isn't even really worth anything, I just threw in a global illumination and took a render.

[The Doggy Goes...]

I guess the question that comes along is...

What in the hell is wrong with your hand man? It looks like you are a 50 year old obese man just by the drawing of your hand. XD

Anyway, the details in the wrinkles were rather well. I just don't see this being a realistic hand for some reason, but if you say it's your hand then I guess it's your hand.

The pointer finger looks like it's bending at a crazy angle. Personally my finger isn't that flexible and when I try to copy the movement it gets much deeper. So either your finger itself is very flexible and bends in ways it shouldn't or you should add more depth and make the inside of the knuckle look like it's a little bit father away.

Again with the thumb as well. You either have a double jointed thumb that points in an odd direction or you just didn't get the angle right. If your thumb bends that way then alright, but if not then it seems like it's way too curved to be attached to a hand.

I guess what I would have really liked to see in a picture like this would be something to fill in the dead space of white. Something like your hand being on a surface such as a table or even just a shadow of your hand. Maybe even a little bit of something in the background as well just because the white space makes it a little bland.

I wouldn't mind seeing a hand from the other view because I thought you did a good job on the detail in the thumb and wouldn't mind seeing what the finger nails would have looked like on the other fingers as well.

Captain responds:

Thanks for the in depth crit. My hand isn't anywhere near as wrinkly as this, I just wasn't completely aiming for anatomical correctness. I just made it a lot lumpier because it was more fun to draw that way.

And my thumb does actually bend that far :P

[Alien Hominid Zombie]

Really good piece of work.

I love the cartoon style drawing here, but I also like the fact that it had quite a bit of detail even for a cartoon. I like how the left eye is very evil, but I feel like the right eye should look a bit different. The very open round whole (even though it doesn't have an eye) almost gives it a friendly feeling. I feel that if you made it a bit squinted like the other one or perhaps had some extra carnage hanging from the socket that it would have worked a bit better.

Also, the tongue gives it a bit of a friendly feeling as well. Despite the fact that he looks like he would tear me to shreds and that he looks like a killing machine, I just don't feel that fearful when looking at him I guess. I feel that you could have made him a little bit more bloody as well.

I'm thinking that perhaps if there would be more of a background that it would have been a tad bit better as well. The background that you used did look great, but I envision an old/dark ally with some sort of garbage in the background. I also think you should have had the severed body behind the main attraction of the picture somewhere in the ally behind.

An all around good picture even though I thought of a lot of things that I personally felt could improve it.

[Barrett .50 Cal]

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I spotlighted this in the Review Request Club if you don't mind. This way you'll get a few other reviews along with mine. :)

This really is one of your best guns that you have drawn. Alone it's a great piece, but as the entirety of the piece it would be even better if you had someone holding the gun, preferably to their eye, like they were getting ready to shoot at something.

The gun itself is awesome. It has this very good 3-D effect that I think is because of the way you made the lines and the usage of shadows. It almost looks real like I could grab it right off the screen and shoot somebody with it right now.

When viewed in it's biggest size you can really appreciate the gun in itself. While very simple, it's still done rather good and probably couldn't be made any better itself. I think the only thing that could make the picture better as a whole would be to add somebody on top of a building holding this gun while they are getting ready to snipe someone.

Great for a flash game or movie as well.

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fallensoul289 responds:

Thanks for your review and I think it's one of the best reviews for this one.

[madness combat 9]

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I know I must really sound like a broken record when I review your stuff, but it's simply because the same thing could really help your pictures become better. The introduction of a background with some detail. Like in this picture it could be something as simple as a desk in the background, door way on the one side, etc...

I do like how you almost set this one up like a comic book strip. Is that something that you have ever thought of before? It might be cool to make some sort of Madness Comic or something.

I also think it would be kind of cool if you tried to introduce some color into these with color pencils. With the ones that you shade it wouldn't be a good idea to add to much color such as the Jesus one that I just reviewed not too long ago, but with this one I think it would be a good idea.

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[Jesbus MC8]

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A quick question before I really get into the review of the submission. What's that in the bottom left and right hand corners on the bottom of the picture? It seems like you cropped the picture right where something was done. Perhaps you should have cropped above it if you wanted to leave that part out or something.

The first thing that sticks out negatively to me is that you did continue his body all the way through the picture. He's just kind of cut off there in the middle and I think you should have kept going. Also, the hand on the magnum is a little off since the end of the hand should be lined up right on the end of the magnum.

I also think that the gun should have been a bit more detailed. Jesus himself is pretty well detailed and the gun being plain kind of takes away from the picture a little bit. The ring above his head could have been done a bit neater as it wasn't exactly what I would call circular. :P

The best part of the picture has to be his face though. It is very detailed and almost scary looking. The eyes give it a very nice scary touch making me think of him here as a cold blooded killer of some sort.

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[Jesbus watching over hank]

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When I see this I see some bad, but mostly good things all around. It's hard to catch the right angle on the computer screen as most angles the lines were too late for me to really so the picture, but as soon as I found the right angle the lines were dark enough to see the picture clearly.

The drawing of Hank is very good. The drawing of Jesus is also pretty good, but I though Hanks was a bit better. I also rather enjoyed the blood and thought that was one of the better parts of the picture.

The gun isn't drawn very good and needs to be done better. It looks very odd and shaped weird towards the end of the gun. I also think that the introduction of a background would help a lot. More than a background though I think that drawing the ground would be very nice.

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[Pancake]

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Hm, this use to be my favorite breakfast back in the day when I was a child. Having pancakes every week I can tell you that your pancake almost has too much perfection in it. Meaning that it's too circular, there isn't any rough spots, bubbles, etc.. Anything of that sort. I think that a good picture of a pancake would include these faults as the perfect pancake is in fact has its faults.

The syrup and butter look pretty good. Perhaps the picture itself could look a little better if it was on a plate or had some sort of background to it. By itself it doesn't look the best. I think simply a plate with the remaining picture being the table that the plate is on or something of the sort.

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chesster415 responds:

So flaws in the pancake and a plate and table. That makes sense I was trying my hand at some 3D artwork, backgrounds aren't my strong suit, but I'll work on them more in the future.

[Goomba's Last Moments]

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Wow, this is the first art review that I've written in quite awhile. Let's see how rusty I am.

The title is great because with the shadow you can tell someone (Mario I'm assuming?) is above him ready to finish him off. The shadow of what I assume is Mario looks very good and the shadow of the Goomba is also very nice.

The color of the floor looks rather good. I think you used a good combination of colors as they all seem to go together quite well. You also used good colors in the Goobma itself.

I do think that the lines that you used in the Goomba did look alright because it gave him a very cartoonish type of feeling, but I also think that you should have cut the thickness of the black line down a bit to make it seem a little more neater.

Overall it is done pretty well. Good use of colors and shadows. I do think the lines in the Goomba could be a bit thinner though.

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chesster415 responds:

Cool thanks, I did want a cartoonish cute look for the goomba. They always get portrayed as a generic enemy.