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[Pyscadellic Birds]

I also like how this turned out.

I'll first start with the "bad" and then work my way to what I think is good about the submission.

The little circles that you used on the bottom right hand corner looked out of place. They looked good, but nonetheless just didn't match up with the rest of the picture for some reason. They are almost an eyesore and just doesn't mix well.

Other than that though I think it looked pretty good all around. I love the mixes of blue and orange colors as they are my two favorite colors. :3 They also just look very good together. The small use of green was just about perfect. Anymore and it would have been too much and too much less would have made it too subtle.

The border would look out of place, but because of the plants on each corner it gave it a nice feeling of balance. Because of the black in the middle with the birds the black on the edges also gave it a great feeling of balance. The birds themselves looked really great.

Overall I think if you replaced the part on the lower right hand corner with another orange section that it would have looked much better. It's a very simple piece of art, but very nice nonetheless. Worth the look in my opinion. Keep up the good work.

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TheThinWhale responds:

Thanks, I really liked how the colors turned out too

[feel what I feel]

Hmm...

Again, I like the messages that I get from your submissions, but I just don't like the art work that much in itself. Seems too simple, almost kind of sloppy, etc.. I don't know how to explain it and since I don't know much about art I don't know what you could do to really improve it, but since I know about how art makes me feel I can still give you a decent review. :P

From this submission I get the feeling that the two people have different feelings or emotions and the one person is saying that, "You should feel like and because you are different nobody is going to like you."

The other person almost looks revealed that the person is telling them this that they will finally fit in as long as they act differently and cross over to the different color. (which represents conforming to become popular) Even though this person feels a bit better there is still a little part of them that knows that this isn't right and it's not the way things should be.

(odd how people see art isn't it O.o)

The purple side of things seemed a bit distorted, which even helps me along with my envision even more because things on that side are distorted and people aren't the real person that they really are when they conform like that.

Hmm, like usual good messages that allow the viewer to think what they want to think, but I still think it could be better done and the artwork is kind of crude/rough.

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Silent-G responds:

thanks for the review, although it was a bit wordy and you sounded like a confused cheerleader. I am, however, glad that you thought it was crude.

[help me out]

Odd..

The character in the front was probably enough in my opinion. He was just very big and with the other two guys the screen seems very full and distracting. Perhaps if one of the doctor looking guys was removed and the big guy in the middle could be shifted over a little bit while one of the doctors could then shift over again giving more "white" space and allow people to focus on the piece of art better. (Just more space because things can be hard too look at when cluttered)

I want to ask why you put some color on the two doctors? It just seems that it goes against your style. I also like the sky that you did here, but again it's a bit crowded as the words seem too close to the sky and too close to the big guy in the middle. Unlesss that's what you were going for the entire time.

I can also see this being made too crowded on purpose. Perhaps as the guy says Help me out here, it's because the two doctor guys want to help him for some reason, in which he doesn't need help for (since they do look like death and very creepy for some reason) so hence he does need help, but it's to get away from the people who are trying to help him in the first place. O.o (I hope that makes sense. It does to me at least) But then that would explain why everything was cluttered because it gives an impression that the big guy just needs to get the hell out of there.

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Silent-G responds:

holy shit you answered all of your own questions. thanks for the review.
P.S. they aren't doctors.

[may I take yours?]

Perhaps I don't understand?

I think the colors that you used in the sky were too straight. Especially if it's in a desert where there is a lot of heat waves and things off in the distance are going too look wavy/distorted a little more. I also think that the change of color in the sky should have been more subtle. It just goes from one color right to another color without any blending. Just really doesn't look good in my opinion.

The things that I did like in the picture were the ground, mountains, and sun though. They seemed to be down much better and I really liked the color that you used in them. I do admit though that the yellow color in the sky kind of clashes with the yellow color in the sun. This brings up another problem that I have with the sky though. Perhaps I'm wrong, but shouldn't the order be yellow, orange, and red? Having the lighter color in between the darker colors just seemed weird and out of place.

I don't mind that you have words there for us to read, but do think about not including words sometimes so people can't think of what it means to them without the bias of any extra information in piece of art. I also would have liked the words out of a text box. The words seem cartoonish and the text box seems too straight and professional to match with the words. Perhaps if the box was more cartoonish itself also. (Did I just make up the word cartoonish? Firefox says I did)

I almost like the simple black and white character that you used, but I think you should have made the body as detailed as you did the head. Also, the shadow almost looks like a part of his body instead of a shadow. Perhaps a different shade of black or gray could have been used for that or you could have used just a bit more thickness since shadows do tend to be a bit thicker than the body every now and then. I also find it kind of funny that the glasses don't go behind his ears and just kind of sit on the side of his face.

I do see some sort of story here though. A man, who is lost in the desert still has the etiquette and civility to ask if he could take someone else stuff for them so they don't have to. At least that's how I interpreted this piece of art. The man has a very kind/gentle face too.

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Silent-G responds:

I don't even no how to respond to this. thanks for the review I guess...

[Blue Eyed Dragon]

Woot my favorite artist!

The first thing that I'm drawn to on this piece of art is the very beautiful blue eyes that you have gave the dragon. Then I notice the posture of the dragon and after a second look it doesn't look so much like a dragon anymore. It's just very human in nature, which of course you were going for.

From the smile on the face you get a very nice, gentle, and relaxed feeling from the picture in it's entirety. The smooth green colors against the cracked wall in the background also add to this relaxed mellow feeling that the piece of art gives off.

Like usual I can't critique your art as you have done a very good job. It's very detailed and just looks professional all around. Keep up the good work.

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EchoRun responds:

Originally I wasn't trying to make him 'smile' - that was just supposed to be following the line of his muzzle. Like how bottle nose dolphins look like they are smiling or something like that I suppose.

The other more human characteristics also developed over time, the first sketch certainly didn't look so 'soft' or friendly. That's just how it turned out. Funny that. I quite like it though, make the image something of it's own creation, instead of just mine. Like a good story develops on it's own.

Thanks for the review.

[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.

*First comment was before reading author comments*

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.

[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.

[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

[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. :)