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[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.

[Surreal]

This IS surreal!

As I try to view it in full screen, it remains exactly the same size!

There's some impressive symbolism with the character's ethereal self watching from behind him...breathing ethereal air down his nexk and into his...her?...sweatshirt.

The black fire...it would've looked exceptional if it were comprised with warm colors. Y'know, like a fire would look like. Yellows, Oranges, Reds...MAYBE whites? But instead, I'm not sure if we're looking at some sort of BP oil spill, or Tar come to life...

...or maybe it's a reference to THE PIRATES OF DARK WATER. That show kicked ass when I was a little kid! A bunch of faggy pirates with a flamingo monkey on board a ship with one girl to keep it from being an obvious "out and proud" pride voyage? And that monkey had a thing for melons, and that faggy Captain was some kind of...son or heir or some bullshit, and he had like, this "Eye of Thundara" crap going on, but it was like...a sword that got broken into a dagger, and he was being chased around by OTHER pirates, so he lead this ship to try and kill "THE DARK WATER" or some shit. Which was some sort of sentient monster that lurked through the seas and ate ships and terrorized everyth- THAT SHOW, WAS BAD THE FUCK ASS.

4 for the Dark Water reference, nothing else.

[Starcraft Terran Medic]

Nice!

Ever since somebody pointed out that the first Starcraft Medic's voice actress was the same voice of Julie Winters in The Maxx, that's all I picture beneath that visor. Still, this looks badass! The lighting is great, both interior and exterior. Her visor has a great shine, that I can't recall was the same or not on Raynor's visor...it just looks great! Keep up the good work!

[ClokWerkMech]

That is BADASS!

The chrome finish on it looks really convincing. While at first, in the earlier two photo's I wasn't really digging the tripod feet, when it's got that shiiine to it, I think it works. Now that I think about it, with a chunky torso making it as hypothetically top-heavy as possible, maybe those feet make logical sense...

The arm reach also makes sense in the design of the mech...takes stress off of it in case it needs to reach something on the ground, and bend over as little as possible. With those massive cogs around the shoulders, it's believable if it can swing some mighty punches.

The visor gives it an effective, menacing non-stare...any inspirations carried over from the mech in "Da Pink Knight" or was that a medieval prototype to this? :P

I think it looks phenomenal. The 3D is convincing enough that if it weren't for the pixel-y background, I would've assumed this was a tangible model...and if it were, I'd be keeping an eye out for it in the store so I could decorate my desk. Voted five!