COM1's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[VENOM]

I think this art is very clean and expressive. Feels ready to be animated in my opinion. I also love that you put some shadow on venoms back teeth and under the eyes. Really helps the image look more lively, and helps the viewer understand the image better. Good work! Got a lot of empty space on the top there, not sure if that is an artistic choice but i would suggest changing your canvas size to focus on the image if it wasn't intended.

Skeet-Daddy responds:

thanks! i appreciate all the kind words! the negative space is just there because my plan for this piece was initially to add a city-scape background (i still. might eventually) so i just had all that empty space and didnt bother cropping it. Glad you like it though!

[Wavedash - Thank You Sakurai!]

My favorite bit is how the text sorta splashes on the screen, and I really like how the lighting on the floor grows with each word added. A nice detail many would miss I think, but still appreciated for the effort it shows. Very nice animation

magpyfeather responds:

Thank you! It's supposed to be like the Smash logo fire, and I thought "hey, fire makes light", so I decided to do that.

[Magical Scary Pair]

I think it looks great. My preference is Boo for how expressive it is. I can't help but feel some more variation in the line width would help it feel even more expressive and alive. If you are using a pen, try different pressure settings and experiment with a range of line widths and where to add those accents to your characters.

[Dragon Princess Cyon]

All you need left is to use different types of brushes for different surfaces. Mainly if you want to use textured brushes for shading. The reason being is that people looking at the art will see patterns and make assumptions with those patterns. For example, the hair is shaded with the same texture as the hat, so someone looking at this could assume the hair is also some sort of customary dressing, rather than hair. If you went full cell shaded then that wouldn't be an issue but its textured brushes that can misinform the viewer. Otherwise your character design and facial expression look nice.

[Logan Phresh Fanart]

Definitely a very stylistic piece. It's a bit hard for me to articulate a review of work that is a bit abstract, however I will say considering most of the piece is flat colored I wonder if it would have looked more uniform with hard cell shading than the textured brush used. One thing I definitely would suggest is to keep the highlights under the line layer unless it were a theme in the image for the line work to be affected by lighting. I mainly see it on the left side of the hair and beard where the lines and slightly washed out.

[It's 1 in the fucking morning.]

I dont know why but I like whats going on here. That facial expression is great. I think there is enough light colors (im assuming its white but im not pulling out the dropper tool to check the value) on the character, the circle behind it makes it look a bit too bright. Some more contrast on the background in relation to the foreground character in future works would help them stand out more.

[New Face]

I think this mashup looks great! Better than the original to be honest. Also like your coloring. Good work!

[I DON'T WANNA SEE THE NIGHTMARES ANYMORE!!]

Your piece conveys fear very well in the character's expression. I feel your water mark and text on top are a bit too distracting though. I know it sucks to potentially have your art stolen, but I'd recommend looking into less obtrusive ways to put your credits. The text could use a hand done touch, maybe sketchy looking handwriting to make it look more intense. Other than that, neat work!

[Tella Type PLUR]

Reminiscent of news comics with the wavey lines and all. Looks neat.

[chch!]

The face and the colors, all I can think is the word "adorable". I really like those big expressive eyes. More so than that, the gritty, messy nature of the colors that provide the right amount of contrast to guide our eyes around the subject. Fantastic work.