Fro's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Ola K Ase]

How much sir? I'd like to purchase the piece of art for my living room wall. Do you ship across borders like that?

MonoFlauta responds:

I would love to, but it will be difficult to do that from my country haha.
Anyway, thanks for the review and probably you will be able to find something better for your living room wall!

[Hunting in the Woods]

I really like this. The forest, trees, and deer really work well together. I'm not sure if I like the color of the person standing in the picture as it seems way out of place with the other color choices, but perhaps you had a reason for that.

I could see the woods being used as a background in an animation. Great job.

MonoFlauta responds:

Thanks! This was an old thing, as always, the art is not my strong part but well, had fun doing it!

[Stranger Eye]

I see in one of your responses that you didn't use a scanner. Like mentioned in my last review I highly recommend focusing on the lighting when taking a picture of this for the future. It's really hard to see this one, but you can tell that it was really good with or without the blur.

Let me know when you submit something else so I can check it out.

NekoMika responds:

Thankies and can do

[Skuvari]

This is a neat drawing. I think it looks good, but what was the method of getting it onto the computer? It kind of looks like you maybe took a picture with a cellphone or other type of camera and then saved it onto your computer? Maybe scanning it on would have resulted in less of a blur or maybe even just turning the lights up to get better clarity on it.

NekoMika responds:

I took a pic with a phone, I was kind of a dunce at the time, sadly no longer have the drawing anywhere.

[me in chibi]

I refuse to say cute for a couple of reasons.

I'm not calling a picture of a 15 year old boy cute even if it is just a piece of art and also because I don't really find it to be all that cute. I think the better word to use, and this is just my opinion, is dull.

I use the word dull not only to explain the lack of said cuteness, but also because I have no clue what the emotion is. Have you ever knew somebody who had a hard time showing their emotions? I do and on top of being a good person to make fun of it's also a tad annoying when I have no clue if he's happy, sad, angry, joking around, or serious. This picture follows that theme.

The look on his face could mean several things and not being able to put your finger on it can be a tad bit annoying to the person viewing it. Is the character trying to be cute in some way? I hope not because it's a terrible way to position your face if you were. Is he scared of something and he's yelling, is he yelling to a good friend, or is he that kid in the chorus who's nervous so he stands up very stiff and sings quieter than the others. (It looks like the last one so far)

He could also be really surprised or frozen in fear. I think frozen in fear would be the look to go with here. So let's build off of it and see what we can do with this picture. Let's bring up that word dull again and use it in a different way. Can I suggest using it as another word for empty? I always stress this in my reviews. Would you rather see a piece of art with a character with no content around him or a character with a background? I think if you asked that to a general population that the majority would pick having a background.

A background could have showed the emotion on his face. You could have had him in a Christmas theme and we would have known that he was surprised or excited. Put him in a dark environment with shadows or some ghoul and we automatically know that he's scared or frozen in fear.

I think I can envision this piece being in a bedroom with the only light source in the room coming from a small glow outside of a window and the rest emitting from a door that is half way open. The light shines into the room, but is covered by a mysterious and scary shadow, which drapes over a portion of the light like a blanket.

Onto the character itself, the shading could have been a tad bit better, but I actually really like it. A lot of people don't put the time or effort into proper shading and shadowing. Even though I jokingly poked at your character by calling him dull and bland I do find it to be well done. The reflection in the eyes was pretty cool, the proportions makes him look very cartoony, and it's just a neat little guy all around.

Overall it's a nice piece that could really be cool with some extra content and feeling put behind it. Simple things like I suggested can make a piece of "art" into a piece of art quite quickly. Keep on working in your spare time and I'll be interested in what you come up with.

~ Review Request Club ~

lgnxhll responds:

Thank you, ill keep working on putting a little more into my drawings.Thanks for the citisizem and complements.

[Lay off the coke, Garfield!]

I think it needs a lot of work.

It's definitely something that I would title as a sketch and not exactly something that I would want to showcase as my best work. I actually think it's a small level above the old Charlie Brown stuff that I made and it's probably only better because I tried to follow the art style as close as I could and yours has it's own personal touch. (Which is great, I love that you added your own personal touch to this piece, it's the best feature for sure)

All around I feel it's very sloppy, even for a sketch. I don't know if you needed to use pencil for the whole thing, but in my opinion it doesn't really look good. I would have loved to see cleaner thinner lines and shading with colored pencils instead of the normal gray pencil.

The window, the shadow, and the other places that you used a darker shade really don't look good at all. All in all the setting is rough at best and needs to be much neater before you have a good picture. The best thing would have to be the character in the middle even though the one side of his head looks like you messed up pretty bad.

So my overall opinion is that you need to take more time on this. Use thin and neat lines instead of the chicken scratch that you used on the majority of the picture and add some color and shade with the color instead of the black and gray. Those things should give the picture a better look.

~ Review Request Club ~

Blue-Dolphin responds:

Thanks bro, good to hear actual CONSTRUCTIVE criticism around Newgrounds for a change. But yes, it is a rough sketch, a REALLY rough sketch, I got the idea randomly in class to draw a beloved cartoon character huffing lines of snarsh, so I asked a girl in my class to name a famous cartoon character, and she said 'Garfield' I referred to a screenshot of a Garfield episode for the face features (The lines on the head and all that) but the image came out COMPLETELY different than the reference image itself.

But, the whole 'theme' I guess you'd call it isn't about the art quality, it's more of the story behind it, to show things like people you wouldn't even think twice of ever doing drugs, really do them, or how the government hides the fact that cocaine is widespread across the whole of North America, or whatever you as a person think it represents, I know it's not the most mature image, but it does have some effort in it, not artistically per se, but on a deeper level it can have the ability to turn heads and say "Woah, that's Garfield, and he's doing DRUGS!".

But altogether I spend maybe half an hour on the Garfield, and the table with a 6B pencil (All I had -.-) and I spent not even 5 minutes on the backround with a characoal stick.

But thanks again, Fro :)

[Tom Fulp: The Beard]

A picture that I could have made fairly easily. :P

This looks like a picture that I could make fairly easy, but it doesn't mean that it's not a good picture. The art is good, but in my opinion it doesn't look like Tom really at all. I might not have seen him in real life, but I think the big thing that throws this picture off is the hair. (Which actually seems to disagree with the review behind me so whatever lol)

Also, it's pixel art right? Why take a copy/paste of the newgrounds tank on his shirt when you could have created one out of pixels to match the rest of the picture? Anyway, I like the character and it's something that I would like to see in a flash game for sure.

Speaking of that, why not put him in some sort of scenario? Make him slightly smaller and put a background behind him. I'm sure it wouldn't take too long to put him outside with some scenery or even put him in the office kicking ass like usual. Perhaps forcing Luis to do the dirty grunt work or something.

An all around good picture, but I just hate to see a character by itself. Add more content around the character to show us what he's really about!

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EventHorizon responds:

Thanks for the review, I honestly draw this piece of art was not difficult although I have drawn with the mouse, I used gold because the background was the same aura of the icons of the directors then gave them a touch of important this character will see very soon in my new game, but for now it's a secret.
thanks.

[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.