Fro's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Why So Serious?]

Why not so serious?

The first thing that I get when looking at this is, "He doesn't look very dangerous." I almost got a feeling that you based it off someone else, perhaps even based it off of yourself? It just seems way too friendly to be the Joker, especially the one in the recent Batman movie.

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Other than that very well drawn out. Much better than anything that I could ever do with or without a tablet. If there was some way to make the HA!'s in the background seem a little bit more bloody then I would suggest you could do it and also the plain gray background would have been better as something more detailed. Perhaps a brick building? For some reason I just think a building of some sort should be put there, maybe a dumpster on the bottom with some garbage bags laying next to it.

I think that all goes with how he looks too friendly too. Anyway, good job on your first drawing. Very well done especially for your first time using a tablet. Keep up the good work and hopefully you keep submitting quality stuff.

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Viridis responds:

Thanks man. I am considering redoing the whole thing now that I am more familiar with my tablet. Except I'd probably do it in Photoshop, not Flash.
Thanks for the review <3

[Zombie]

Very good for flash.

You did a great job on making this and it's great for flashes. I would know since we used it in my Resident Hall Evil flash. I really don't think there is anyway to improve something of this sort. It's done very well. Great colors used and very good all around. The night sky that you added was a great addition and looks really cool along with the zombie.

The zombie is kind of cartoon, but if that was what you were going for then great. I think a more realistic zombie would have dried old skin instead of the green skin that you used, but I know where you were coming from for sure.

I think the real question now is could you animate that zombie fluently? Or would that be something out of your league? I would love to make a zombie flash someday with you if you could get something like this animated.

fallensoul289 responds:

Well I meant it to be kinda real but still cartoon. the skin is meant to be green and yes I could animate it fluently.

[Colin]

Hmm, let's see here..

The part where you used a "ground" for him to sit on didn't look very good in my opinion. I think it should have been a bit more solid or not there at all. I'm thinking not there at all would actually make this look a little bit better. The reflection was kind of cool though and really isn't something that you could have without the ground being there, but I also think the picture could have done without it. Don't get me wrong though the reflection looks good, but could have also looked good without it at all.

I don't know wtf the picture is of, but it's kind of cool nevertheless. The blurred background makes the character stick out more and the colors used were pretty cool in my opinion. I do think the character could be a little bit more round though as the straight lines didn't look the best.

Overall, and odd piece, but not terrible. Had trouble between giving it a 6 or a 7, but being terrible and not knowing the most about art I'll give it a 7.

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[Mike (colour)]

Weren't you just scouted?

This is actually very trippy to look at directly and indirectly. The colors almost made my eyes cross. How did you draw this whole thing out? Very simple, but really gets the job done. Looks great with colors and I don't think it looks too great without the colors myself personally.

The white strips that you left color out of also made it look pretty cool. Having the blue and red on opposite sides and then the other colors around made the piece of art feel very balanced.

An overall decent job. Very simple, but gets the job done. Looks like something someone would want to put as their background on their computer.

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[Seaside Sunrise (Colored)]

Very cool!

I really enjoyed the colors and blurred effects that you used on this piece. Very small and lack of detail though. I think that perhaps it looks pretty good that way, but I think you could add something like a couple of birds flying by into the sunset or even just a man standing by the tree leaning on it with one of his arms.

Other than that very nicely done and I really enjoyed the colors used in the piece of art.

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[Loneliness in Blue]

Nice

I really liked the cartoon style here. You seem to follow the same theme of blue colors used in your animation and art work. Is this just because you like the color blue or are you trying to get to something deeper here such as emotion?

I do know the blue really helps the emotion here. As we couldn't already tell the man was lonely and sad, the blue just made it stick out even more and really pointed it out. Also, blue is my favorite color. :P

The cartoon style was very nice. It explains the squiggly lines and where the color just seems to be off by a little. I like the lack of detail actually, because it really makes sense having little detail pointing out the loneliness of this man even more.

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Insanimation responds:

Thanks for the review..

I dunno, I guess I think blue just works with anything I'm trying to put across artistically, and it's very neutral.

[Dark Ram Demon]

Not too bad.

The Ram head of the demon looks rather good in my opinion. Perhaps the color of the top of the gown or his clothing meshed in with the bottom of the ram head a bit and made the lower part of it harder to see.

The hood and the lighter colors on the clothing look good, but I do think that the colors on the clothing should have been just a tad bit darker. Not by too much, but a little bit.

I think the same could/should have been done with the wings of the demon. I think they should have been much darker. I guess I'm just not a fan of all the little white space in between colors. :(

The feet or the things under the clothing were a bit weird in my opinion. I didn't really know what they were.

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[dreamy cloud]

Pretty cool.

The color mixture was a pretty good choice, but for some reason I think it looks a tad bit too blurred or almost faded out like it's been in the sun for too long. Obviously it really hasn't been out in the sun for too long, but you know what I mean. :P

I personally think that if the colors were much richer and that there was less of a blurry effect that this would look great. Not really art that tells a story or anything like that, but not bad all around.

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kiwi-kiwi responds:

Hello, first of all thank you for the review.

Right now I'm doing some background art, this started out as a nebula, needless to say it ended up something completely different.

I guess I exaggerated with those blur settings and colors could use a bit of enhancing here and there so I'm going to try to make another version using your suggestions and hope it'll be better.

Once again thanks for the feedback

[Carrot Clock's Father's Day]

Not too bad. :P

I guess the question is.. did your father enjoy the present that you made him? Or perhaps its... did he understand the present that you made him?

A few odds and ends that you can really do to improve this piece. See how the green on the top of the carrot's are really really green and as you move down it just suddenly turns lighter green? This would look much better if it was more of a blend or slight change as you went down. Dark green on top and slowly turns lighter green as you work your way down the picture.

The orange part of the carrot was done slightly better, but could still be improved slightly. The grass was also done rather well. Perhaps the best part of the picture itself.

I think another thing you could do to improve is to add something in the background. Perhaps a tree, garden, which would go along with the whole carrot thing, etc.. Just a nice detailed background to add some extra excitement to the picture and make it look better. The white background really doesn't cut it here in my opinion.

The coloring itself looks like it could have been done a bit better as there is a lot of white showing.

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[Servant of the Gods]

Woah, favorite of mine.

The blur effect makes the creature in front really stick out and just really adds a lot to the art piece. I can almost imagine this as an animation right now. Thunder and lightning in the background, rolling black clouds, and a slithering creature coming out to reek havoc on anything that my be near by.

Beautiful art work and by far my favorite piece of work that I have seen on newgrounds so far. Perhaps a little fire could be used where the tree was struck? Even though I guess that wouldn't happen until a split second after the lightning was gone.

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EchoRun responds:

Thanks. :)

Yes, I don't think there would be fire until the split second after the lightning, too, so I left it out. I have an idea fir a companion piece for this which might have more in it soo... perhaps more effects and stuff then. Maybe. :)