XwaynecoltX's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Darkness]

Fantastic

~~REVIEW~~
Wow very nice, i was very impressed here, now this is the kind of art i like to see, and love the style, how long does it take you to finish up one of these pieces? my wife took a few classes, so its kinda neat, but anyways, really liked the shades on this and a great pose you have of the character, im thinking it would be neat if say you added a moon maybe in the upper left corner, with the light shining on the guy giving you room to use some other type of lighting shades in that case, or even use just a light post, just an idea that might make it look abit more interesting, but from this piece its really neat and impressive, I am just thinking it needs something in that area where there is noting, but its pretty good as is just thought i would throw out a few ideas, these types of art pieces always seem to be my fave i enjoyed reviewing it and hope to see more of your fantastic art pieces, anyways keep up the good work.

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
As mentioned some more lighting effcets such as moonlight or even a lightpost.

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[Give me a break..]

Needs abit more

~~REVIEW~~
Interesting art piece here and this actually seems to fit well for a "DESKTOP" screen, i still feel that something can be done with all the overhead bland areas this is something i tend to comment on alot of art pieces, but i guess you didnt add much so that the "ICONS" can be seen better? but if not you should fill in the bland areas. maybe something like an overhead "CITY DROP" but you could possibly do it in a light shade as to not effect the desktop icons, well just something to think about, your character looks pretty good very good colors i like the pinkish colors while everything else is more blandish, now if you didnt want to go that rout of the backround you could still do something with it like some shades but again lightly so it doesnt effect the icons from the desktop, but anyways hopeyou enjoyed the review i know i enjoyed your art piece.

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
the over head area needs something maybe it be shades of light colors or some backdrop or something along them lines

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kmau responds:

I actually use this smaller version as my desktop wallpaper now, with a black space containing all my icons surrounding it to make it look like a window. A real background would make sense now, but I don't feel that something like a city skyline would fit since she would be indoors looking out.
Well I still have the .ai soooo I'll probably try to come up with something.
Thanks for your review, always better than 0 / 10 .

[Taudzi Wallpaper]

Needs abit more

~~REVIEW~~
Now this was kinda neat, i like your character here with a big yellow head, and looks like theres a story here to tell, and looks like something is going on, the backround is kinda like a blast so i wonder what this guy is yelling or talking about, so with that said i feel this needs an audiance, maybe if you had at the bottom of the canvas shadowed heads, like if the guy is speaking to a croed of people, now even with that i wouldnt mind also seeing some text in here to give the viewers of this piece something to go on, more then just the image, some random crazy text would be nice such as "YABBA DABBA DOO" allthough i wouldnt put that in there just an idea to work off of, all and all you have some good work here, great colors for the backround, funny character and some story within the story, so work with it more and tell us more. hope the few i deas i did show help abit, anyways good luck

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
needs some text above his head, maybe some people he is talking to give it some story.

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DonStracci responds:

Thank you for the review! In fact the background was made pretty fast just to make a wallpaper. I made the character without the red light and with transparent background at the first place. I always do so in order to introduce it in a animation. My plan for this character was as you said to make a crowd but in a video, making every single persons one by one and transform them in a 3d layer as the character aswell. Thank you again for the review, feel free to ask me if you want more informations.

[Ventus]

has a few bland points

~~REVIEW~~
I remember playing kingdom hearts and this was not a bad piece at all, i love the "SWORDS" coming out or just being a good effect, im thinking you could have more of an effect though, also i noticed you have some bland spots in more of the upper right to lower middle, just seemed abit on the bland points more, so while your character and the swords is a nice effect i would love to see more with this and fill in those blank spots maybe with more effects like you did with the swirds and or some other characters, to be honest i feel this whole piece needs much more effects like with a glow effect kinda like waht you been doing with the swords and such, hell it might be funny and amusing and kinda random if you placed some cute character like a "BUNNY" in the bland spoot it would reall show some random effort, but anyways you have a good piece here and i enjoyed reviewing it hope to see more from you soon.

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
as mentioned. add some randomness at the sametime filling in the bland areas

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[Heavy Sword]

Awsome

~~REVIEW~~
First off the blade is very impressive, i love the "TWIST" and its been so long since i played majars mask so i dont remember anything like that, but you 3d version of this is very impressive, i love all the little added axtra features like at the end of the handle the red ball, and the blue like crystal in the blade, now i think those two points i mentioned could have a sorta glow effect like maybe the "SUNLIGHT" is hitting there, and if your gonna have a sunlight hit the blade, the "GOLD" edgings should have a much more brighter shine it should already have a brighter shine without any sunlight hitting it, but anyways the sunlight is just an idea to give the blade more of that effect and to standout more, something to think about i guess. but anyways you have a good looking blade here, i posted a neat idea that can help to improve on your already neat wepon here, so keep up the good work i like what you got here.

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
Have some "SUNLIGHT" beaming down on the blade giving some shine to the gold coverings and or other parts of the blade

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Nanakisan responds:

actually i originally thought of a glow effect for the red and blue crystals but immediately discarded that because of how long the render would have taken.

[Timpered]

Love it

~~REVIEW~~
Hmm well notbad when i first saw the thumbnail it looked like a neat character, to findout it was part of the tree kinda i thought that alone was a good and creative idea and style, so good idea there on your part, i was also enjoying this and hoped you would have made it all on a larger canvas and such, but you did have a decent amount of content, the "TREE" was very neatly textured what was that? now as for your character, he was yellow and happy and kinda cute so i guess it worked outwell, as for things to improve on this like mentioned the canvas size could be larger, am also thinking you could spice it up abit with more trees and more yellow guys in them just for some extra added pleasure. well just an idea to show more of whats going on in your picture it kinda gives more story to it aswell, or even just have a "SHADOW" of that same character back there in the backround something along them lines, anyways good work.

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
ad more in the backround may it be another character and or other trees, and also a larger canvas would be nice

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[First Moleskine Drawings]

Notbad

~~~REVIEW~~
Well notbad first of all on your two sketches and such, it took me awhile to get to and find your art so i am glad i did you have a couple of nice sketches here, but i must say they are still hard to see even a close up version, but regardless they were both pretty good i thought have some sorta story to tell and nice sketches good line work especially with the hair and all, it could use a touch of color even if its just pencil or even pen, you have some nice stuff here i would love to see how you can process this with maybe photoshop and or paintshop pro, to really beable to give it some bright and fresh colors, would really be something neat, anyways good work, and i look forward to reviewing more from you soon

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
the artwork seemed very hard to see from the computer so maybe somehow you can maybe outline the work with a darker pen or something, some mixture with photoshop would also be nice and allow for some fresher color thems

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Luxembourg responds:

Thanks for the review! Your score was pretty fair, although your review itself was a little peculiar in the language department. I get what's wrong with it, though. I've been improving with darkening lines, though, and I recently had some ebony pencils that I used to make thick, black lines. Problem is, I don't have a scanner anymore!
I usually only digitally touch up on pen drawings, by the way.

[Robot Jones]

lol i like

~~REVIEW~~
heh well i must say this was pretty neat i especially like the checkard backround, the robot is funny and silly looking, there is a white backing to the character? it kinda looks odd over the checkard backround, maybe something could be done there, Iwouldnt mind seeing some color in the robot, maybe like on that globe on his head just a tad though as to not take away from the whole black and white theme you have going, as for the text, i would have that in another color besides the yellow as the yellow matches up too much with the checkored backround, well hope thses things i noticed might help to improve on this, anyways good luck on your next entry.

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
try and remove as much if not all of the white paste or backing thats around the character also the texting in yellow should be a differant color as the backround matches up to much with it

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[Blibbles .hack//G.U.]

Hmmm notbad

~~REVIEW~~
Heh well this was notbad i like your character, there were a few points i thought looked odd and maybe improved on, such as the legs look abit on the short side aswell as the head looking somewhat small, I like that you added some sorta backround, but maybe have a backdrop scene instead of just the color theme, another thing i noticed was maybe you can have his hair on his head and end of tail more "FURRY" like with that shade of blue you have it looks just plain and smooth, so add abit of depth to it if you can, well its a nice character looks like you have something here go with it and improve on it.

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
i would like to see the hair improved with a more hairy like or in your characters case more furry like, the leggs look out or portion and slightly on the head aswell

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[Punky Face]

Its notbad

~~REVIEW~~
First of all its notbad, a few things could be improved to make it a much more "ALIVE" art piece and such, First of all i think this whole piece should be larger the drawing is very good it just needs to be presented in a much larger view, the words just above it are also kinda small if you made that abit more fancy maybe thicker line work on the text would also help, and also some color would make this standout so much more then what it is, even if you had one part colored say like you made one tooth say red or something that might be an interesting idea, To improve on the drawing itself i would put an earing on that ear, it seems like its missing that, other then all i said its a pretty decent drawing, keep up the decent work

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
A few things i mentioned, like an earing, some added color and some improved lettering at the top

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