Galneda's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Skate deck design]

Very cool! I especially like the color pallette, but I love the skulls.

HeartlessArts responds:

thanks man im a fan of your shark kaiju gig poster :)

[R2-D2 Zombie]

I love it! I especially laughed because with the missing third foot, he would have to do that back and forth wiggle as he lurched towards his victims.

Slowed down and distored "WOOWWWWWWWWW!!!!"

Easy Five...not sure whose blood that is on him, but the less I know, the better.

PKShayde responds:

Thank you so much, I'm really happy about your enthusiasm XD

[Vacation For StrawberryClock]

For an MS Paint job, this is actually pretty good! I like the choice of colors.

If you needed to improvement, I'd keep an eye out for shadows in relation to the light source. You kinda had a little bit of that going on with the highlighted contours of StrawberryClock facing the sun, but the illusion is dropped because of the lack of shadows on the sand. Even if you just did an eye-drop tool on the sand, opened up the color pallette, and made that color SLIGHTLY darker, it would've worked.

Nicely done, voted 5

TheGamechanger responds:

I'll take your tips into effect. Thanks!

[Bear With Me]

Enviable hair/fur strand detailing and shading. Wonderful job, and it's evident you worked hard on it. Fav'd and Fived!

TheLoyalMeat responds:

Thank you very much man, took me a long time so i'm glad it shows, appreciate it :)

[Nightfall]

Everything about this is masterful. The sky, the water looks real...the horizon, and the illusion of depth by shading whats closer to be darker, and the further land to be softened. I love the ships, its just...wow.

What is Vue and how did it particularly lend a hand in this things creation?

1600 responds:

Thanks! Vue is software for creating 3D environments that I used to create the sky and water and some of the land. I actually don't know how to use it all that well yet, but it's really convenient for making a base image to paint on.

[Pleasure]

"So much wrong with this?"

Are you nuts? This is great!

stnkjuc responds:

Teeth, lower lip, and her left (our right) eye lacks depth. But thank you, it means a lot! :)

[Cosmic Horror]

The raging river of people are just as compelling as this monster...holy cow.

The only thing that particularly look out of place to me are those drawn-star pentagrams. We have the starkly-realistic, living and breathing, mass of nude bodies streaming and bending into this horrifying other-worldly demon...and then we got these stars that almost seem to hint at "innocence" or "youthfulness" and it kinda throws me off from the epic spectacle of hell that the rest of this beckons to represent.

Why the stars, in that fashion?

Still voting 5.

Xaltotun responds:

You described it very well, and the stars were all intentional. Maybe they don't have the effect I was hoping for, because you're not the first to be put off by those, though. Anyway, thank you. :)

[Kratos as a Lady]

I'm in love with that face of hers. Great work, great lines! The feet seem a little small, too me, and the angle viewing upon her HEAVING BREASTS is a little weird at first, but her far shoulder makes the angle sensible. (Do you see what I mean? There would have been nothin' wrong for a profile view of those tits, but seeing them from above while we're mostly seeing the side of her is a little odd.)

Again, I love the face. Great job on the hair and legs too...and hell, the tits rock, the chains rock, great job, voted five!

Sabtastic responds:

Hey thanks for the insights!
Guess I just fell victim to that damn 'escher girl' posing. lol Snappin' spines for visual appeal---

Gah I gotta start keeping an eye out for that. I know I've done it more than once.

Glad you like her face so much..! I tried this sweet little 'flipping' technique where I reversed the image to see her face from another angle-- it really helped to make things look more balanced and to work out imperfections.

That, and having a photo reference helped. xD

[Happy Days]

I love it! My favorite details being the hooked-metallic tentacles and the toothy grin of the monster. The style on everything looks fantastic.

I have to ask, because I have NO idea how you do it, but how did you manage to get the comic-booky "dot-matrix" kind of shading? Is that a pattern that you overlay on the whole thing and erase where you don't need it, or is it much simpler/more complicated than that? I would cherish a response on the matter.

That's all I have to say about it, lol. I can empathize with the feeling of starting an art piece months ago and sludging along until its completion...I've been there too many times. But hey, it got finished, and it looks great! Don't beat yourself up about it, Mr. Front Page feature! Keep up the great work! :D

BryanV responds:

Thanks, man! It was done in Adobe Flash. I just set the color of the brush to a dotted pattern and then lock the pattern, and then just brush like I normally would. The only hard part was getting it to look right as flash would create a weird messed up pattern if i would zoom out to get a better look at the drawing so every time I had to do that I would just save it as an image. So.. yeah.

[Chalk Pastel Self Portrait]

You nailed the face, and the hair looks good too! I can see where your concerns are routed in the shape of the hand (wrist area, finger length) and the shading of the shoulder. Chin up, though! It all comes with practice...and dude, chalk pastels have a bit of a learning curve on them...I could only pray something I was fucking around with, using only chalk pastels, would come out half as good as this...its WAAAAY out of my comfort zone, and the only way to expand on YOUR skills as an artist is to push the boundaries of your own comfort zones.

That said, Mission Accomplished!

Keep it up dude! It looks good. Even if you hate it, never delete this; for it will serve as a testament to how far you've developed in retrospect...and shit, if you don't like how THIS turned out? You're aiming highly for yourself. Settle for nothing less, and keep on developing and improving.

372 responds:

Thanks dude, you always leave the best comments<3