Galneda's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Jani dressed]

She's a cutie! I love the floating bun, and her overall hair shape is fun.

Catinyt responds:

Thank you!! x)

[Commish: Jehuty]

ZoE will always have a very special place in my heart. And by heart, I mean cockpit.

Looking back at your earlier piece from 2021, you've been improving by leaps and bounds! Beyond the Bounds, even! Keep going!

EthanDoesaThing responds:

Thank you very much!

[Mist and Faure]

Wife and I are having a debate- are those flowers in the frame surrounding the left girl, are they wilting or are they a reference to flowers that grow upside down?

She likes the left girl, I like the right girl. They're both really cute and we love the art!

Asawanda responds:

They are lily of the valley. These flowers in each mural refer to the background and personality of these girls. Purity and Innocense for Mist (left), and the Kaffir lily shows nobleness for Faure (right).
Glad you two like this art :D

[A very much so average day in the beach]

My anatomy improved drastically by having a session where a group of fellow artists and I sketched a live model. If you can't find one of those to go, you have resources online to practice with.

Find a model that showcases a feature of anatomy that you struggle with, and with a pen and paper or pencil, charcoal whatever, put down everything you see in front of you.

Your paper is the camera. Envision a 3x3 grid if you have to and just take it one step at a time.

As for this piece, try to include shoulders to frame where the tits are in relation to the body. Challenge yourself by NOT chopping off your model from mid-thigh down...render those knees! Draw the feet! You know what your weakpoints are...the only way you're going to grow as an artist is if you address what's difficult for you, and experiment by stepping outside of your comfort zone.

You got this!

Prismisho responds:

Thanks for your advice! I'll definitely keep this in mind for the future.

[Tebu (Mocobandit)]

After she rolled her ankle in the ring, she just kept eating while she healed. Eventually tying her shoelaces became too strenuous and one day she just hung up the boxing gloves and never put them back on.

Years of overeating and underexercising tipped the balance of her health equilibrium so far to one side that all of her organs became strained. Atop of regular accidental injuries while performing mundane daily tasks, her respiratory issues came with cardiac issues. Digestive problems evolved into diabetes, and then her kidneys started to falter.

One day during a routine dialysis appointment, she tried to think about when did it take such a dramatic turn, because she had vivid memories of being active and in-shape. All she could remember was a photoshoot with cake; a timelapse project with a Cardbordtoaster.

She languished with her obesity for the rest of her short life.

"The brightest stars burn the quickest" was engraved on her urn, where her boxing gloves were delicately mounted.

Cardbordtoaster responds:

"You can now play as Luigi!"

[Death The Wolf]

I loved how they upped the horror with him, they did a great job, and this piece does a lot to capture how metal he was. Great art!

I kinda wish the piece was a little wider/broader in scope, because with the viewpoint condensed between his blades, it feels a little cramped. Like, me as a viewer, I kinda want to scrunch my shoulders up just to fit in the window. This also constrains how dynamic you can make him appear, because all we have is his head, the cloak, the blades and what they're destroying.

He was always at his most menacing when we could see how he was so totally in control of the situation. He's a giant compared to Puss. He is stillness in the distance. He is relaxed in his approach.

But then again, when he's right up on you, he's lethally fast. Which is exactly what this piece captures. The motion blur on his sickles are done in such a way that the reflectivity of the blades still reads really well, even taking into account of shading as the lightsource is obstructed on the bottom right tip. The red sparks matching the flare of his eyes are a great touch, and I'm in love with the grit in the texture of the highlights.

Was this done in Photoshop or Clip Studio Pro? How did you achieve that texture in the lighting?

LucHD responds:

It was done in procreate

[Dead Dolls]

I know next to nothing about Power Dolls, and I'm a huge realmech fan. This art makes me want to learn more! Really cool atmosphere you got here.

GloomFlower responds:

Power Dolls is a lovely series, tough-as-nails strategy games with a more realistic approach. Very much in similar style as Heavy Gear, the mechs are treated more as heavy infantry or walking IFVs, rather than walking tanks or anything of that nature, their strength lies in speed and agility in shitty terrain.
The games themselves very much lean into this aspect, with most missions being sneaky guerrilla ops against superior forces, having you lean into stealth and ambush tactics, focusing on specific objectives over just killing bad guys. The mission design is intricate as all hell, with varied objectives, challenges, twists and turns, to the point where mere play-by-play description of events would pass for a half-decent chapter in a military sci-fi novel.

Only the first game was sadly ever translated to English, but at least it is easily available on your favorite abandonware sites. (is this endorsing piracy? Ain't nobody selling that thing anymore)
For the rest, things get a bit tricky. Not only do you need to emulate either PC98, or put together a setup for 90's Windows games, that shit's all in Japanese. Which is a bad combo with the aforementioned intricate mission design, complete with pages and pages of briefing documents.

Totally worth it, though, if you have the patience to stumble through the whole shebang with Google Translate and elementary basics of Japanese you learned in your darkest weeb years back around the turn of the millenium~

[Sum Phases]

The lighting on these faces are really impressive, and I respect and commend the effort you put into filling the spaces between the characters. You turned a doodle into a really strong flex, and it spurs something in me to create again. Never stop, keep grinding!

Ozrk responds:

Dude, you have no idea what your comment means to me.
I'm glad you enjoyed! <3 <3
Stay tuned.
Thank you so much!

[Throwin' Shade]

Curious, did the printed design handle the white gradient blurry glow well? If it was printed at all, how did you get the shirt made? Did you run into any difficulties with this design, and did you catch yourself learning anything along the way?

ChutneyGlaze responds:

you know im actually wondering that myself🤔 every shirt i made turned out really well but this is the first time doing something like this

[Transformers Tuesday: Glorious.]

You even nailed the lighting on him standing in the icy shadow of a mountain, with harsh snowblind sunlight in the backdrop. Fucking outstanding, 'ol Megs looks mighty and majestic.

HeartisttheArtist responds:

Thank you so much! The colors are almost the opposite of Megatron's, so I wanted that contrast to really pop. I'm glad it worked, thank you so much for your kind words! I'm glad you like it!