XwaynecoltX's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Glad Påsk 2005]

Easter fun

Ok this was fun to look at and has those wholesome fun "EASTER-COLORS" and innocence appeal to it all with the chick. I think the chick was nice to put in the corner with the wings coming out, but why are the wings so damn spiky and long? I think you used them to make a background, or this was fire or something different you were going for, but it makes me put my eyes all over the place because the "BIRD" looks like he got screwed up with or born off. I think the "EGGS" are "CUTE" and well detailed as Easter eggs should be, but I wonder why they are so small? I would always make them a bit bigger in width as their oval shape is a bit lost here. The text is nice and clear and have some good 3D like drawing to it. I would have loved more color in the background tho. I love the border around the entire thing as the double black lines seal this in, but it is nice to see the chick pop-out near the edge and see the look, and you signed it "BOB"? Is that your artistic name? I wonder, but it was good to have your work signed because I did like this piece. Overall I would just work on the things I mentioned, but nothing too much to change and it is good despite that.

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
The background needs more color, the chick needs to have smaller wings, and the eggs could be more oval, but nice work and fun to look at.

~X~

Cyberdevil responds:

Haha well my art's just full of question-generating details huh. XD Especially the old ones, to which I no longer know most answers. I think you may be right! Pretty sure the wing breadth wasn't anything related to fire, as we don't have those traditions over here. Might've been to also resemble a bed of hay, or a nest, of sorts - spring/Easter being a time of such decorations. The eggs were more of a small decoration, but could've had those as a bigger focus indeed. As for the Bob, that's my real name. Back in the day I moved between real name and alias quite a bit in my signatures - these days it's usually always cd.

Thanks for the reviews again, and glad you're noticing/appreciating the details! Old art though it may be.

[Jap]

Interesting

This one here was a bit "INTERESTING" but in a cute way. The hole from digging you have coming out of the picture into what seems to be the city was a nice touch. I like the way the hole finds a new place, but why did you call this "JAP" if you dug to China? I think the overall city scape is fine, but it doesn't seem to be Chinese to me. I mean, you lack the cultural "ASPECT-OF-THE-CITY" in your background. I think it could have used some "CHINESE-WRITING" or maybe more cultural stuff that they would usually have there. I like the building tho as they do show the culture with the one tower building and it would appear you added some smog, and we all know that China is riddled with smog these days. I love the colorful sky lines you have going down the background and how it looks like a colorful world and sky. I think overall this is interesting, I think the pipe could have been bigger and not so small, since you are talking about digging a hole here, why not have the pip more wide to give off a person went through it? I do like the story you are telling here about getting to the other side, or digging over to it, but I would have loved to see maybe a person coming out the other end as well. Good job tho and good efforts in your execution of the idea you had going on here.

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
Add more chinese culture and characters to the background and make the pipe wider.

~X~

Cyberdevil responds:

Well there's the temple-like skyscraper in the background right? ;) But you're right. Not much else. I have no idea why I called it JAP either! All valid points, thanks!

[My little waffle]

Really nice

So this here is some amazing work you have such beautiful lines in the black and white very fine lines and the art itself just came off very beautiful I really like the face expression aswell my only problem is that you don't have anything in the background and adding more back there might accent the main portrait a bit but overall this was a nice piece of black and white style here so nice job indeed

~X~

someplaceelse responds:

Thanks for the feedback :)

[Easter Post]

Mail call?

Okay seems you like to do these Easter posts and they are very sweet and simple, but that can really work out well with your art. I like the line detail and how smooth it is, very close to vector art and as well has that ink art style. I think the use of the yellow inside of the black was a nice touch and really helped you give it a bit of depth. Why didn't you add more of a background here? I think that would have made it more festive, maybe add some Easter stuff since it is your normal Easter post. How about the eggs like last time? I think it needs more. I do like the background like texture details around the letter, giving it a bit of personality like the letter is important to accentuate the meaning of the mail. The same can be said of the details around the letter and the yellows and black lines they have to match the mail itself. It ties in well with that background detail you have going on. Some of your awesome original text here would have worked too, maybe something alone the lines of "YOUVE GOT MAIL?" or something silly like that. It would be cool to add that in there or just to spice it up here and there. Overall a good one, nice smooth solid piece of art here and good eye of using yellow to add that depth. You are really good with lines and ink work so please keep this stuff up, but more backgrounds!

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
Add a background and some text to this one and it'll be more complete

~X~

Cyberdevil responds:

If that's wordplay and not TV show reference: exactly. XD

I think white backgrounds make for easy inclusion in posts and such (on my own site, where the background's white). I aimed for a Clip-Art like style too, which goes well with the traditionally white Word document. Solid outlines to let it stand out by itself. Definitely not one of my most advanced pieces though - it was more for the pun. Thanks for the advice; comment!

[Orange Wedge]

Wow

That was pretty amazing and the little "ANIMATION" was really good it made it even more funky then before, you have some really nice pieces of art here I like the style here and was pretty artistic, so nice job all the way around, hope you keep making stuff like this one.

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
I couldnt find anything to really change up on this.

~X~

OrangeWedge responds:

Thank you, really!
I have plenty of things I worked on in the last months I still haven't uploaded.
Stay Tuned

[Dying Superhero 1]

Okay

Ok so this is another one of the times you will reuse another older piece of art to go with a new idea and create a new submission. I am fine with this, but only in terms of improvement and not the way this is striking me. I think this one here is a less granded piece than the first one and lacks a lot of your original flare, like the text work you always do youreself, here you have a basic font from any software program you just wrote in, and while that is just fine, I have grown acostume to your original style of making your own text. I don't think you should lose that in your work. I think if you are always making your own text or font rather, you should stick to the because it makes us aware that this is a "CYBERDEVIL" art piece and brings things into perspective on original work. I would love to see you redo this one with your own text and style and maybe not use the same characters are before, but something you design yourself. I know you wanted to make something involving "SAM AND MAX" but perhaps you could create your own duo to fight the justice of the world? Just an idea, but I do like this piece here, the spiral like blue/black background is good for a cover, and the characters are spot-on in terms of fan-art recreation. Okay overall.

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
Add more of your originality to this, your own text, your own characters, etc

~X~

Cyberdevil responds:

Agree, the font in particular's really basic here, and overall it's pretty bleak and boxy... but at least not so much white eh? ;) I'm not sure why I went for Sam & Max fan-art considering I've barely played the games, but a retake on this might be fun... will consider!

[Mencere]

Faded

Where is the art going? it is so whited out. I mean, I see something "GOOD-HERE", but it is soooo faded! The texture details are almost whited out here, they seem lost in this. I wonder why you picked to make it so much white covering it up and overall masking the details? I think you over did it on the amount of whiteout here, but it is an interesting piece. This is very abstract as you say, but things are just so subtle and hard to make out. I do like the texture effects you've got going on here. The way it looks almost peace like, like sand inside a snowstorm. I wonder what inspired you to try this out? I love the overall feeling you get looking at this as well, like you're lost in a dream, so that part works out well for you in terms of the look. I would have changed your brightness/darkness settings and made it a more darker and maybe fixed up the contrast inside this one. I think you have really good ideas and you're always trying things, and that is something I like about you. You're different and edgy and for abstract this does work well. I think you were using the darkening brush in this as well and that did help you in some areas, but overall it was good to see something different from you. I would keep trying this out and next time do something that isn't white?

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
As stated above, this is far too white and faded. Try to get more darkness and less white next time. Even try playing with your image settings.

~X~

Cyberdevil responds:

I guess I like white. :) Bright colors. Haze. Not sure what inspired me anymore, but I like the impressions you got from it! Lost in a dream sounds particularly nice. Might've been something like that I was going for.

[CyberD Top]

Interesting

This wasnt too bad for another paper sketch, So for this one I gave 3.5 stars because of the sketch itself and is much more "RAW" artistic value, I would really love to know who all the characteristics may or may not be lol, I feel like you have a lot going on here and could use more detail and direction on where to place characters. They seems really squished together and unable to coexist well. I do like it but each character is a different size than the other which is fine but it isnt very consistant for some of them right beside each other and their placement is off at times like some characters look like they are floating. Id definately try to get this converted to a more digital style with thick ink lines like you usually do and then add up color for more style and a better means to tell everyone apart. I like the characters and I notice some NG ones and ones I am not sure of but overall a nice piece. I also love the one character hitting the other with that key lol I did enjoy it just put more focus on the elements of finishing this as oposed to a sketch and youll have a great NG history piece.

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
Add up some changes in porportions. Add color. Add ink lines in a digital setting with your art program.

~X~

Cyberdevil responds:

I wish I could remember who they were too! XD Not sure if the guy with glasses is NG Staff or Steve Jobs... or could it be a buffed up, more sinister (in the name of competition) alternative you? The dude in the middle might've been gluttony from Fullmetal Alchemist, and the CD guy at least is 100% most definitely me! Alien Hominid in the metal mask...? I'm just guessing now. Also I'm pretty sure that key's a flag! ;)

[Grattriss 2005]

Nice

Ok so what language is this? I feel like I need to get out google picture translator and investigate, but regardless it is a nice little addition. Is this a lottery card? I feel like it is but you need to add some $$$ signs into it to imply the winning of money, or maybe the symbol you used here is that sign? I am not too sure, but it does look good and has great symmetry overall. I think the orange and green coloring was good and the line work was good as well, but I wish the lines were thicker and heavy in some areas as the symbols themselves were heavy and thick and that should really match with the lines themselves, especially when you use the boxes or stratch box area with such a large thick line intself. I think that is really your main issue here to just keep things flowing in a nice way from line to line and not make it look like too much of a sketch if you want a realistic looking lottery card feeling here. Overall I did like this one and I hope you'll do more, but maybe an English version for us boys in the USA? Nice job tho.

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
Just change up your border line thickness to match the boxes and give it a flow overall for this piece.

~X~

Cyberdevil responds:

If you read the description you'd know the answers to most questions above. ;) Good point with the winning implication though. The symbol's the official brand - 'triss' being a wordplay on three and clover/slang for money. Don't think a translated version would make much sense, and it's old work now, but thanks for the continued reviews!

[Youtuber's Anxiety]

Nice idea

So this was a nice idea and a good "COMIC" too I actually think you could make a comic series based off you-tubers or something like that, your art style is there and you have some deep colortones and it all comes together very well, but anyways very nice work here I like it.

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
I actually think you could make a comic series based off you-tubers or something like that

~X~

MookGames responds:

Thanks for the feedback! I'm currently working on some bigger projects, but I'll definately keep your input in mind