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[Self Portrait with Characters]

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It's not what I would consider a Self Portrait. In my opinion (and it could be/probably is wrong) it's a false perception of how you either think you look or what you wish you would look like. I'll point out a few reasons why I feel this.

The eyes of you (which I'm assuming is the middle character) are huge. The eyebrows are very thin and have a very weird curl down to your nose. I know my eyebrows go the opposite direction with their highest points in the middle next my nose and the lowest parts on the outside.

The mouth is very small compared to the nose and the chin/face structure isn't something that looks like would be on a human without plastic surgery. Perhaps you are very muscular, but the portrait of yourself looks like you weight well over 200 pounds with no fat at all.

So yeah, as a drawing I think it's great and that's how I'm going to rate it, but I myself can't consider this a true self portrait. Of course, that's all being said without me knowing what you look like at all.

Yeah, in all of the pictures the eye brows seem to be backwards to me. There were some pictures which had more detail than others, but in the ones that didn't have the details you've could have put a lot more in. Specifically the guy with spikes (in his hair and his body) has great detail put into his hair, but the character right to the right of you doesn't have detail in his hair.

You did a really good job with the longer hair on the girls. All around you did a good job with details and everything, but I find a few things here and there that I picked out. Nothing major by any means though.

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AkujinRuukasu responds:

I pretty much made a manga version of myself, which I aimed for. I see that I made my neck a little bit too wide. To this day, I actually weigh around 165 lbs. I also had my head a little bit downward. I have to agree, I kinda made my eyebrows too thin and too downward. Now that you mentioned the eyebrows being bass-ackwards, I did some comparison among the manga version, live version, and my drawing version. I guess I had them the wrong way without realizing it! I think I see where you are going when you compared Akujin's and Akiyoshi's hair. I was afraid of overdoing the hair and putting it off-balance. Thanks for the compliments and suggestions. I'll be sure to keep these in mind. Oh, one more thing, there's only one girl in the picture.

[Cube City]

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First thing that caught my eye before anything else was how the road ends by rising into the air above the ground level in the horizon. Tisk Tisk, we should have gotten out of the drawing floating roads in the air when we were small children. ;)

I like that there isn't any color other than gray and white in this piece. It does give it a certain feeling. Not really a sad feeling, but almost the feeling of an old routine that someone is bored of doing time after time. It just kind of drains your energy and makes you "not happy." The picture does a good job of giving that feeling.

Did you use a regular pencil or some graphite drawing kits? Either way don't push down so hard to get the darker colors like we see on the road because the bottom left of the road gives off a nasty glare. This can be avoided by using layer after layer of a 2-B graphite pencil or one of similar shade. I know that it takes longer to do the layer on top of layer technique, but it does get rid of the shine.

I felt that the shading was good for the most part, but on some of the buildings that are closer you have these random dark lines that really stick out and don't look that good.

Other than that though I really like the picture. I always loved drawing cubes. I think you did a really good job on proportions and positioning of all the buildings. Nothing really sticks out like it's not the right size or that it's out of place.

A couple of things that you might think about adding to this piece could be a city on the other side of the horizon with buildings rising. They would be relatively small, but they would do a good job at covering up some of the empty white space while at the same time sticking with the cube style.

I also wouldn't have minded seeing some shadows thrown into the picture where the buildings would be casting them. On one last note, take better care of your art. I can see the wrinkles and lines of where you folded this and threw it somewhere. :P

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ZJ responds:

Thanks, bro!

[The Elegant Parasite Black]

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It's cool that there is a story behind the picture, but the better thing to do is to do is to create a picture that instead can create a story for each individual person that looks at it.

When I look at this picture I don't really get much from it. I think it has a lot to do with it's simplistic nature and major lack of detail. The color black might have been too dark in this case. I feel that if the color was a bit lighter that you could have really put a lot of detail into the creature at hand. A mixture of colors would also be better fitting.

So yeah, more detail and a better array of colors would have made this more appealing to the eye. I also would have liked it better with some sort of background.

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Celx-Requin responds:

I guess if I ever do use the character again, I should have more going on.
But for this specific piece it is what it is...

Thanks,
- Celx

[Two]

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To get full respect from this picture I suggest that the viewers click on it to view it at it's full size. It really shows how much work and detail was put into it.

It's a great picture, but I think that the change is too sudden. Is there a way that you could have made the change a little more subtle because it's really just one face and then another face, but at a much deeper level we know it's not like that in real life. If someone is double faced in real life then there are the two different sides, but somewhere in the middle it's more of a mix of characteristics and emotions. It can almost represent a struggle for a person to find out who they really are and it's as never as clear as you have represented it here.

Where it splits also isn't directly down the middle. I don't know if that was on purpose or if you meant it by there is more good in a person than there is bad in a person. If it wasn't meant to be like that then I guess I am complaining a tad bit about how it isn't split down the middle of the face.

Off of the negatives though. I really love the use of red in the hair far to the right. It's almost out of place, but yet at the same time very fitting. It's hard to explain, but maybe it can be explained that even with good there comes some bad, but it's not always a bad thing.

The face structure made me a little confused as I couldn't tell if it was a girl or a guy with really long hair and girly like features.

So overall, I feel that it could have been a bit more symmetric and that a more subtle blend in the middle could have given it a deeper meaning. I do feel that it's a piece that people can allow themselves to imagine what it means to them and it might be different for everyone. I won't take any points off for the minor things that I spoke of.

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InsertFunnyUserName responds:

Subtle blend is a good idea and yeah, the face is a bit disproportionate.

Thanks for the review :]

[Self Portrait]

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Very nice picture all around. I thought that the background that you used actually went with the picture quite well, but updating to add a background will also be pretty cool as well.

My favorite part would have to be the color that you used in your shirt. I felt that that area of the picture was done rather well and is the best part of the picture. I also enjoyed the way the hair was very fitting with the entire thing.

I love the way the face is pointing, but it seems to be shaped quite odd and not like it would appear in a real picture or in real life. The right side of the face (when looking at it not your actually right side) it the side that seems to be shaped odd.

The left side eye also seems to be shaped unrealistically and doesn't fit with the picture overall. I wasn't too thrilled about the color used in the face, but I really don't know what I would recommend to make that better either so I can't say too much about it either.

All in all though I feel that you did quite a good job.

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Scarifying responds:

Sorry I probably should of updated on the author's comments that I actually did add the background which is that black one. So this whole piece is finished now and is going to be entered into a contest my teacher told me to participate in. I also did not like the face as much as the rest of the drawing. The left eye is one of the parts that I was mentioning in the author's comments that I did not like. To me it is very noticeable but hopefully it is not too bad. Thanks for writing a review and I am glad you liked it.

[CoolJaw Comic Preview]

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Very simple, but yet very creepy at the same exact time. I think this would make a very cool animation style and I love how the white and the black really look good together.

The picture itself looks like he could tear someones face off in a matter of seconds. All around, it's a very simple piece, but I really like the way the color was used and the simple style. I wouldn't mind seeing some sort of background here such as a building or the outline of a dark room.

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Celx-Requin responds:

I was going for something a little darker, the finished product will have cool dark settings, I just need to work on making the backgrounds seem polished.

Frankly creating buildings, and streets isn't one of my strengths, but I'm working on it. Anyway thanks for the review, and glad your back in the club...

Sincerely,
- Celx

[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

[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.

[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.