GamerTheory's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Ashley]

I love this style. The muscle definition on her shoulder is a really nice touch, and the anatomy is much better than the majority of Newgrounds art.

On the other hand, you should draw backgrounds. Your character art is cute, but you're severely limiting your ability if that's all you do. I speak from experience. Learn from my mistakes.

Also, I swear I've seen your art somewhere before, or at least something similar--it was all cute, short-haired girls, but in stickier situations. Maybe one of the -chan sites?

Caine1989 responds:

HF, LB, GB. Not sure where else haha. Well at first i will work on the bodies untill i found a stabil look, then later i will work on backgrounds. Thank you very much for your review.

[Rogue]

The attention to detail in this picture is great to say the least. The 8 ball in the skull and the faded ghost behind the amoeba(?) are especially nice. The colors flow together well and, despite a softer style, manages to look a lot like Castle Crashers.

All the soft coloring draws my eyes away from the central figure though. If that's your intention, feel free to ignore this, but if not, try to draw out the focus of your picture more in the future. This could be done with slightly bolder lines or colors, or just moving some of the clutter in the background off to the side and keeping the eye-drawing stuff near the figure.

Erbmaster responds:

Thanks, I'll take everything into consideration :D

[Frizzy]

Drawing traditional after a long time of digital always throws me off.

On this picture, her face is small compared to her hand (or her hand is big compared to her face). If you hold your hand up to your face with the bottom of your palm aligned with the bottom of your chin, your fingers generally go about halfway up your forehead. This girl would be able to reach the top of her head with her fingertips.

I wonder, why didn't you finish this? You could get away with cropping out everything below the clavicles and drawing her shoulders (which I mistook her hair for at first). Yes, the hand is well-done, but if that's there, shouldn't there be at least one arm as well? Or is this a famous artist's style that you're emulating that I'm not aware of (entirely possible--I don't know about too many well-known artists).

I've always liked seeing anime-style drawings with more realistic proportions, so I'm liking the size of the neck. The shading is nice, the hair is good, the face is proportional to itself, at least, and her hand is accurate.

bloominglove responds:

Thank you very much for your review! :D

I'm still very much an amateur with anything relate to proportion. Still a long way to go! :)

[Ashei]

This is odd, but not for any bad reason. She looks vastly more cute than sexy, even naked. She's not posed provocatively and what you have of the background doesn't emphasize or promote eroticism. Really, this has the feel of a fine art piece in a stylized disguise.

Her right forearm and left upper arm look too thin in comparison to their counterparts on the other side, though I wouldn't call that a failure by any means.

Her upper torso, head, and arms look like they belong to a different figure than the rest of her. It's difficult to spot, but I don't think the twist of her torso and the angle of her lower body quite match up. I'd say either turn her lower body back or turn her upper body just slightly further away from the camera. I could be wrong on that, though.

RadioactiveToy responds:

Thanks for your review, now I wonder if it's too late to make those corrections though I can see what you mean by her upper body and the rest of it.

Aaand I made them, I think.

[First Commission Oil Painting]

Fine art indeed. I love seeing well-done realism on Newgrounds.

The kid in the back's hair comes off his head kind of a lot. Mentally draw the line where his skull is and check the hair. I may be wrong on this, though; I've seen kids with high hair before.

That same kid's left eye, to our right, is just a tiny bit higher than the other one. It took me a long time staring to pick that out, though.

Lastly, and I add a disclaimer to this one that I'm terrible with light and shadow, how is such intense red being reflected on the back kid's shirt? Does the front kid's shirt glow? Or is this some aspect of lighting that I'm not aware of.

It took me awhile to pick out those three tiny things. There may be more, but I'm not skilled enough to pick them out if there are. Awesome work, overall. You must have put a ton of time into this, and whoever's buying it won't be disappointed.

DonStracci responds:

First of all thank you! You made me see some things that I didn't notice! As you said because of the hair it looks like he has a bit too high skull I can manage to reduce that a bit when the current coat of paint is dry. For the eyes on the other one, you can notice that his ears are also a bit horizontal, it was meant to be done like this with the eyes, however as you said it could have been less high, I hardly can change that mistake thought, lastly, I will eventualy add some more glazes to darken the shirt refletion. Again, thank you alot to taking time to critique, really appreciated!
-Mat

[Rocklander]

Hey, this is pretty decent. I've always been hopelessly attracted to messy hairstyles and strong eyes.

Not perfect, though. Her arms are the first thing that jump out to me: her left arm is longer than the right, and both forearms (I believe this is what the previous reviewer meant) are thick compared to a slim body. Also, a human's wrists align about with their crotch; on this girl, they're just below her navel. This can be remedied by making her forearms longer. Last thing for that area, try making her fingers align a bit better. They separate from her palm as random places; they should be going in a slight arch, with the pinky being the lowest and the index finger being the highest.

Her legs looked really nice to me at first (and the front one still does), but even considering foreshortening, her back leg is really small. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm assuming you did that because you knew that there was a gap between the legs just below the crotch and wanted to accommodate that? True, there is a gap, but it's often too tight to even fit a finger through. That sounds pervy, but think about it artistically.

Going back up her body, her sleeves look too two-dimensional. The way the white rings are curved, we should probably be seeing a little bit of the insides.

The coloring and shading are pretty nice. If there are flaws with either, I'm not skilled enough to point them out.

bocodamondo responds:

yeah those are exactly the errors i noticed later after i allready finished the artwork...man i hate this

but yeah thanks for your fair critic here
next time i'll try to keep my eye on the anatomy of the artline VERY GOOD so a fail like this wont happen again

cheers

[Sanctuary of the Soul.]

I'm going to have to agree with Aci6's review for the most part. It looks nice, yes--like something you'd see in a side-scrolling game, and I admit I clicked this picture among others on your art page because I thought it looked the most professional.

Simplicity is more complex than you'd think. When you go for a simple picture, each pixel counts. Everything must serve a purpose and help convey the meaning of the picture. While you've got atmosphere done well, I fail to see what's going on here. At first, I thought that was a dead pile of bloody flesh on the ground, but then I saw that the "blood" was brown and my next thought was: "Oh! The statue dropped his cake!"

The smaller your picture is, the more each pixel counts.

All in all, the art is solid (except the pile of... cake?), but even though it looks like it's trying to convey something, I can't tell what it is. Honestly, I hate giving out stars or numbers to rate a piece of art, so take them with a grain of salt. Pay attention to the body of this message, not the stars.

<deleted> responds:

I will do so.
Some people ask me what some of my art means, I think not all art doesn't necessarily have a meaning.
(And the "cake" was a pile of gore :)
The meaning of this piece was to give a feel of darkness, gloom and "loneliness" (A little obvious but even I don't even really know what it fully means which is one reason why I personally like it)
Thank you for your honest, and constructive review.