Galneda's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Hands on Bottom]

Poster.

I would buy this poster in a heartbeat.

The only thing that throws me off is how the progression of hands switches from left hand to right hand a couple of times...but fuckit, that's creative. 5/5 10/10!

[Dual overkill]

Good Practice art, it's looking good!

But if you don't mind, I'm going to be a little critical to help you improve.

Consider the guy, "NOT-Marcus". Let's say that the direction facing out from the front of him is zero degrees. His hand supporting the rifle looks like it's accommodating a rifle at 45 degrees from him, and the rifle is pointing almost exactly 90 degrees. By having his fingers arranged in that way, it's implying depth to the guns dimensions that simply don't seem to be there.

I understand practicing in your weak-spots...it's why I draw legs, feet, and noses a lot. But people below me are just like "ehh, work on drawing humans" and not pointing out what looks "off" to them. Allow me to try and elaborate best I can.

"NOT-Marcus" has a bit of a baby-face going on. He looks young to begin with, but having that youthful appearance while having so much...MASS to his head, coupled with wearing a backwards baseball cap just makes him look like a giant pissed off baby with a couple of scratches on his face. The cleff in his chin sort of helps with implying age, but it's not enough...the skin in the wide, vacant spaces in between his eyes/mouth and ears are too smooth. Try adding even subtly defined cheekbones, wrinkles, texture, and even facial hair. Remember at all times when drawing a face, beneath it there's a skull. Someone with a face that big should have meaner looking eyes than just two horizontal lines and a circle within a circle. Proper use of shadowing could help with this too, but moreover study how eyes could look...research for your character and then make it your own based on what you SEE.

The girl is just baffling to the situation in my opinion. I mean, the scenery behind them is nice and serene, but he has a gun and looks pissed off while she has...heh..."firearms" ...there's no visible enemies in the shot. Not even bodies of conquered foes, or any sign there's a conflict at all. So either these two are running into battle with a purpose, or HER arm spontaneously combusted, NOT-Marcus is running away from her afraid he'll get burned, but she's totally into it because she enjoys pain.

I mean...what's her story? I fail to see the tactical advantages of hoochie shorts, a thong pulled up high, and a white tank top for battle. Even NOT-Marcus seems more geared for a Slayer concert with his lucky John Deer hat than he is ready for combat...the only items that even remotely imply "war" to me based on their clothes are belts that only seem to hold a limited number of bullets like for a revolver in the wild west...and I don't see holsters on either of them. Hell, with her, ALL she has a thin little belt that either holds 3 .45 Long Colt bullets or 3 Triple-A batteries...and I don't see a dildo holster for her either, but I imagine she's gotta do SOMETHING for herself when NOT-Marcus is around...her arm appears to be an effective Icy-Hot for those long lonely nights.

Finally, it's their body language that's kinda awkward. Look at the bandages around NOT-Marcus's enthusiastic skull knee armor...now look at those same bandages that are supposed to be the leg in the background. Because they're similar in size and angle, it almost looks like he's a creature with one fat armored leg to hop around on instead of him running with one knee in front of the other...which, I might point out, is a really odd way to run when you have bulky armor around your legs...

She doesn't look like she's running as much as she's about to fall over, captivated by the camp fire in her palm. Her tattooed arm, if you look at the line that leads up to the shoulder, I don't think that should be a solid line...there should be a break, even a small one, right after the back of her armpit. Moreover, we got contradicting perspectives, looking down her torso for her breasts and looking directly beside her legs...if her waist and legs were at that angle, we'd get a different picture for her torso...but I'm all for getting the cleavage in the shot, so the legs may need to be revised to compliment that perspective.

Keep up the good work! Keep drawing! Voted 5.

Deathisawesome responds:

I have to start with saying that this is probably the most awesome comment ever! Thanks for taking the time man :D

True, I tried to get that right untill I finally just gave upp :/

Alright, I'll do a big sketch full of faces, with a skull under, no big babies here :P

As for that, it's more like they're a team, though it's hard to explain exactly how I thought. I might develop that for later art, but for now, she's something of a mage or wahtever while he is some sort of "guard".

LOL, well, I felt for drawing that way :P

Well, that is only one leg you see there, maybe I was to subtle when I drawed that though.

Good point, I'll try to have that in mind for my next pic :)

Big thanks, most helpfull review ever :D

[Geisha Express]

Very cool!

I love how you've balanced the color theme all throughout this...as a whole it's already wonderful, and then it draws you in to notice all of the neat little details.

The background crowd was handled very tastefully. My only problem with it being the Cowboy hat guy (top, center. Left to the scarf wearing body) is only partially inked. Sure there are lines that are excluded here and there among the crowd, and it does well to add definition without drawing too much focus...but what stands out for me is how the line from the bottom of his pant leg comes up to the knee and just abruptly stops.

Moreover the lanterns inside the motorcycle canopy seem to be RIGHT in front of the bikers face, and close enough to the Geisha woman that it would knock her in the back of the head should the bike start to move. While they look great there, from a design aspect, it seems to attribute to unintentional hilarity as opposed to a whimsical theme that's established quite literally everywhere else; the advertisement, the waitress with the couple in mid-ground...

Everything looks great. Once again, I love the color choices you've made.

And two more things; why is the rear tire suspension attached to the tail pipe? Also I don't see any shift pegs :P

Voted 5! Keep up the great work!

LordDF responds:

Awesome review man. You're totally right, there's a few issues with the bike.

As long as people enjoy the piece, I'm happy with it. Hope you can check out some of my new postings too! :)

[Sinner's Pain and Punishment]

Pretty captivating.

There's some pretty cool visuals meshed into this. I like the figure clawing at their own face, sharp teeth, with the tongue thing in the top right, and I also like mouth eyes in the bottom left.

But there's some pretty goofy/wacky looking faces or details that shift it away from being completely menacing. The oversized nose, middle bottom, for example looks moreso funny, especially with his fu man chu tentacle-stache. The very top-right, bug-eyed grin thing that's sort of a mix of Hellsing with Trollface is a little goofy lookin' too, but that might be because of the styles of teeth. You have a portrait of different maws all over the place here. Some human looking teeth among sharp, demonic teeth...but up in the top-right, at least, you have cartoon piano keys. See what I mean?

There's also many missed opportunities to make use of shadows to your advantage. Blur your eyes looking at this and focus on blackness. Some of the coolest features are engulfed or incorporate shadows...ESPECIALLY the bottom right half-face (really cool and atmospheric), the two in the top left, the scream face with a figure in it's mouth, and the one I pointed out was one of my favorites (face clawing). If you incorporated MORE shadows into this piece, it would have been more eye-grabbing, because the faces would pop out...even if it were as simple as a burn tool or just shading appropriately in between faces...it might be too light. That top right section could use just as much or more shadows as the bottom right section has. See what I mean?

If you want dark...go for DARK, and see how subtle lighting can help things in the scary shadows pop out...if only just enough to be noticed. It would improve the intended atmosphere you were going for here tremendously.

Voted 5! :D

7darkriders responds:

thanks for the review and the overside nose is called "tengu" wh no ich is a mask that has myths or use for plays, some folk tales in japan says its a demon (akuma meaning demon or devil in japanese) i included this because its part of a demon and its from japan but hey its japans idea it may look funny as u think but i dont think ur wrong but its myths are interesting and i added the dragon whisker moustache similar to any karate films you watch like a master or expert karate's beard i want it too look ageing and wisdom like you know wat i mean. Sinners Pain and Punishment is a collection of mixture of dark and ghouls and things you see from hell i include worldwide wheather if it be english, italian, spanish, greek anything i find interesting as long as its myths are good to read.

and also for the top right one is a goblin or imp face you like to say but i know what u mean but the teeth you ask is wrong i got its teeth if you ever heard of "soul eater" its manga and anime very nice and i took the moon's grin as you can see his teeth has this piano fat teeth like and in my art demons are ment to smile in pleasure of pain and suffering and sinners are meant to suffer for the cost of thier sin.

i guess so and yeah i understand thanks for ur advice but im happy with my work but i guess i could tone up and tone down on some part

but thank you for the great review phobotech :)

[Exiled]

Ooh!

I think I quite like this! The white light source coming from the right does the cloak good...from what we can see, everything looks great. The green tint reminds me of a Type O Negative album.

But everything is quite reserved...yes, this figure is very mysterious, but it's only such because it's teasing us over how vague it is. We got a pointy, oldschool Italian doctor's mask (they used the beak to stuff with herbs under the notion that it acted like a filter for the air you breathed so you didn't get the plague...it's either a doctor's mask or it's Halloween :P) We got sort of an arm, tastefully concealed to avoid having a hand drawn, and we have the bare necessities to establish he's holding the reigns of a horse.

It would be better if we got to see more detail as to WHO we're looking at; what kind of person was exiled, because based completely off of what I can piece together, it's a masquerade gladiator monk plus his camera shy buddy that likes to wear horse heads whilst wearing a leash.

It would be better if we got to see more than just 5% of the horse. In fact, there's so little of the horse, it could have easily been left out, and saved from cluttering that side up so we have the Exiled and the leaves and settings to focus completely upon.

It would be better if the leaves were different leaves at different angles to better recreate what a flurry of blowing leaves would actually look like. The motion blur effect is used in good taste on a couple, but it's pretty obvious it was one leaf copied again and again.

The sky, background/environment looks superb. The color tone is great, and the robe is so excellently detailed it's treading Frazetta territory.

This would absolutely rock as a comic book cover...like a Renaissance telling of "The Spectre."

I voted 5. Everything I said here was honest from me. Keep up the great work! :D

[Madness Comic Cover Test4]

Wow!

Very cool! Wonderful and creative style to it all...I'd pick this comic book and read it immediately, because I'm a sucker for style.

[Comic Book 1]

Hmm...

I'm genuinely interested in what's going on, and I COMPLETELY support adventuring into comic production...but I got some beef with a couple of things.

I'm not sure if it's the scanner used or what it is, but the quality came out a bit blurry. Bottom right text box? I can't read it. It's like I'm trying to read something drunk :/

Additionally, when setting up the text box's position, try not to set them up at the very edge of the entire frame. Open up a comic book, any published comic book, and there's a border in between the text box and the edge of the page. It might not apply to the artwork, but that can sometimes be the case too...it just helps it feel organized.

I don't so much mind the handwriting except that it's very small. Viewed in full size, and I have the feeling that I'm over-focusing on the words...this COULD mean they might need to be a bit bigger and more legible, because if I'm having difficulty reading it, I know for a fact there's a few friends of mine with glasses that would have a really hard time.

I want to see this continued! I want to watch you and your work evolve! Please keep it up, and I hope I've been helpful. The tanks and jets look great! Color is unnecessary, not a lot of opportunity to show off environment, but in the next page it could be helpful to clearly establish the location.

[Magenta]

I dig!

It's like a cyberpunk kabuki mask, and that font beneath it looks badass! I especially dig the grooves that come down from the eyes to the corners of the mouth, but with those grooves continued above the eyes and connected at the forehead, it creates this shape right smack dab in the middle of the face. That shape somehow throws out the illusion to me that the face is actually much smaller.

Perhaps that detail has yet to grow on me, that's completely possible. If it were me, I would have lead those grooves to right next to the outsides of those white tabs at the top. That way it leads down to the eyes which lead down to the mouth instead of giving off that compacted shape in the middle of the face.

Once again, though, that's just me. I personally think this thing kicks a whole lot of ass! Great style :D

Cope2K responds:

Yeah thanks I might fix that I see what you mean about making it look smaller than it should. And that tagging isn't a font I actually did that myself, thanks for the comment. Glad ya dig!

[Fritz]

Very nice!

I like the trippy font. It's also a very human expression, but pretty slate on expressing his comedic personality.

The shading all around looks good, I like the gradient applied to the tasteful background. The sweatshirt is shaded to look realistic, and the shadows around his neck look right.

It only seems a little too dark near the top, and one detail I wanted to point out is it appears that the mustache seems to be on top or in front of the tip of his nose. Possibly it's an optical illusion, but it's merely what I perceive.

Still, all around this looks great! Has James Fritz seen this? I think he would be flattered :)

Good job! Voted 5

CaptainDale responds:

Thanks man, the expression is like that because James' stage presence is very self deprecating and a running joke on the radio show is that he never smiles.

I flubbed the nose in that respect, the part the mustache is touching isn't supposed to be the tip, but I guess that's what it looks like.

Well thanks again, and he has! He even made it his profile pic on facebook for a couple days. I didn't put my name anywhere on it but still, it was nice to see that.