MycosynthWellspring's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Hayao Miyazaki and the Tales He Told]

You have a pretty nicely developed technique and painting style.

I like the composition and all contrasts. Forms you depicted here are pretty convincing. And you did a really good job with Hayao's face - I have to give you that.

However, upon closer inspection I find the anatomy kinda wanky. Both Satsuki's and Hayao's legs are way shorter than they are supposed to be. It felt like you just ran into the bottom of the canvas when initially planning the composition and instead of extending it or moving the lines up, just forced the legs to end at the bottom of the screen. By that same error Satsuki's shoulders feel too wide in comparison as well.

Wolf's legs also feel like two stumps protruding from where his chest is supposed to be - there's a third leg in the background behind them as well as supposedly his tail, but the fourth is nowhere to be found :s

The robit's left hand also feels out of place just poking through some random crack between characters - you didn't ahve to stuff it in the painting just because the character has two of them :p Also: the princess' mouth looks like a lipless slit that was cut through her face with a knife as if through a mask. That one confused me the most since you did quite a decent job with other characters faces.

Anyway Cheers m8 and gl.

SamJV responds:

Thank you for your comments I really appreciate them. Pointing out the faults in the image will help me in the future to make something that is more polished. it was very helpful to me, thank you. ;)

[COTM Terry Pratchett]

This piece is really up there for me in the August challenge.
I have no idea how people are able to attain this kind of flow using traditional medium - That's just mind boggling to me. I wish I could see this A2 sized magnificence in person though. Gotta look pretty crispy.

"Terry Pratchett" doesn't actually ring a bell for me (for better or worse I dunno), so none of the imagery tickle my nostalgic bone or whatever, but dam, this piece deserves at least a runner up from what I can grasp with my limited understanding; very respectable work.

I may be overhyping it, but I can't help it since it's non-digital and yet looks so solid and well-composed.

Cheers m8 and GL in the competition!

8th-day responds:

Hey, thanks for your feedback and kind words! I appreciate it.
Yeah, it was a challenge and it actually took me around ten days to complete the picture, so I'm pretty happy that it turned out nice. I'm glad you like it.

Maybe you'll like to check out his books....the Death wearing that hat, for example, is a reference to a story where Santa Claus is "killed" and Death takes up his role to ensure that things go as planned...resulting in him dressing up as Santa, giving out presents and practicing his "ho ho ho"...one very funny story among many

[A master of his craft (Hidetaka Miyazaki)]

The Black smoke/Blur around the edge looks kind of pointless, distracting and unfocusing. About one third of your painting is just black space that is not occupied by anything and is not even the part of the drawing. Try avoiding that for better composition's sake.

As another adivice - look into shapes more.
You indicaed a lot of individual shadows from creases and folds, and they sort of look acceptable to the eye, but then the overall form of the guy's body is percieved as flat and two dimentional sheet.
Try to experiment with more tonal contrast or look into cel shading tutorials to improve on that front.

You could find yourself quickly improving in the near future depending on how much time you devote to simply drawing.

Cheers m8.

TheSoeren responds:

Thank you very much for spending time 'analysing' my Picture. I added the black blur just because I really didn't know how to do that much background and I was out of ideas.
I will definetly watch a few tutorials for shading, composing and cel shading.

And I'm really, really thankful for your comment. I didn't expect anyone caring enought for my Picture. Cheers

[J.R.R. Tolkien's World]

All in all a nice painting.

I like how you strayed away from depicting the main cast.
I mostly like the composition except for Gandalf on the foreground. He's sticking out unnaturally to me like "Hey there! I'm Gandalf! Derpedy-derp!"
I'd honestly put a Silmarill or maybe Narsil's broken blade there instead of him or something.

Also the shape behind the John's head didn't click as a Hobbiton doorway to me for quite some time - seemed like an open pocket watch until I thoroughly explored it.
It could've benefited a lot by the means of an infamous headbanging candelabre of doom hanging from the ceiling, or some other interior decor IMO, or by straight up putting a discernable silhouette outside the door too - like a Nazgûl rider in the moonlight for instance.

Cheers m8.

Tsitskhvaia responds:

Thank you for advices mate. Your comment was really helpful.

[Monty Oum]

It looks like you are very timid with your values, especially when shadows are concerned. Sketches from your wip looked very promissing, nothing quite wrong with them as far as I could see (I'm not an expert tbh), but when you color them the characters start looking VERY flat and formless.

Here's a friendly advice: look into "cel shading" - it's going to help you improve dramatically. It's basically a "backwards shading" technique that can help you understand forms a lot better.

Cheers m8.

DarkSpartan38 responds:

Thank you very much for the advice. I know I still have a lot to learn when it comes to digital art there are so many tutorials for Photoshop, but I simply can't afford it so I use SketchBook Express 2010 and there are not very many videos that can help me with it so spent most time doing trial and error seeing what works and what doesn't.

[Bulgy-eyed murderer in Green Clean Park floating in space.]

Salting the slug-aliens is definitely the most unorthodox way to approach the bulging eye murderer theme that I've seen so far.

Not sure if grayscaling was a deliberate choice, but I feel like this kind of cartoony piece would benefit a lot from using living colors.

Good job anyway m8.

SollyArt responds:

Thanks for the feedback and the complement man! This is my best work so far and yes the salting the slug-alien is a bit odd lol. I wonder if the Morton salt pose my villain is in is at all noticeable. I definitely see your point about the color as I had considered that aspect myself. I would like to play around with painting it at some point to see what it does, but feel the b&w gives it a bit more mystery than I could probably pull off using color. I grew up enjoying the old b&w Alfred Hitchcock films and feel they would loose a lot their intrigue and mystery were they shot in color. It is cartoony, but a diabolical murder mystery unfolding too, so this is my Dr. Seuss meets Alfred Hitchcock haha. All in all the b&w was intentional, but I may one day get around to re-posting it in color. Again thanks for the feedback and complement!

[Extraterrestrial Killer]

A MOUSE?!

Dang it son! that's pretty good for a mouse drawing! It's not really conveyed that he's a murderer here, but DAM - I'd give it a passing grade for sure.

Cheers m8.

britsie1 responds:

Thanks :D True, it doesn't really show that he's a murderer but then again it is a bit in contrast to the secritive part if I were to show him killing someone. I imagine he is an assassin waiting on the ship for a victim to come strolling in the park... or something like that haha.

[Murder Time]

Ladies and Gentlemen: Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg Bullseye - a bastard lovechild of Gary Oldman and Colin Farrel.

Srsly though: Loved your take on the "secretive" descriptor.
Mhm! Such a cool painting!

These random cindering cracks of the recent fire around the bedroom feel kind of superficial, considering that all the cloth and miscelaneous items have been unafflicted by the said fire.

Hmm..I didn't really explore the idea of "repopulating" the burnt down bedroom. I'd just go for more charred surfaces and blackened stuff. Embers would've long been extinguished by that time though.
lol maybe i'm just taking too logical approach to the environment then.

Anyway: great stuff m8.
Cheers.

MartsArt responds:

Thank you, and yes when you have princess bedroom with conference room and murderer all combine in one environment I thing trying to logic the sh*t out of it is not exactly healthy(for your brain) ;)
That's something for my therapist to deal with ;)

[Holiday snapshot]

Haha.
Wut.
Srsly tho: this blew my mind. 4 stars just for that :D
I don't even! I suppose that's the correct reaction.

Goddam! Just noticed an allien dude taking a leak in the background. 10/10

CheekyChace responds:

Lol thank you it was a fun piece