Knuckstrike's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[[Pencil] A Field of Ice]

Very nice

I really wanted to review this one, particulairy because I really like it.

What I think is great about this picture, is the cold feeling this has. I could put such a cold atmosphere in a picture like this. The small stars on the ice (at least, I think it's ice) and the rocks that look cold and hard really add to that.

The dragon is well drawn too. I guess it's an ice dragon, which you don't see too often. I'm not sure why both his wings point to one direction though. I think the dragon would be even better if he took a pose with both of his wings next to him, not both on one side, and spreaded.

I think this picture would lose its charm if you put colours in it. The sky looks really nice with only black pencil. Grey is just the right colour for the rocks and the ice.

[Sitting By The Sunlight]

Awesome

I liked that, however it's an horrible (as in zombies, not in badly drawn) painting, at first sight it looks like a very happy painting.

One small negative point is that the moon looks more like a sun to me, with the orange glow of the moon itself and the red in the sky.

But still, it's a wonderful piece of art. It's detailed, and the different coloured hills give a nice illusion of depth. And she sitting there being content about the people she just killed finishes the piece.

By the way, until now I didn't notice that it was Nene who killed Pico, Darnell and the rest. It makes me wonder who the rest of the people are she killed.

ZombieMonkey responds:

I originally wanted to include some UBER kids. So it easily could be them :P

[Girl brushing hair]

Calm

What I like too about this picture is the green paper. It gives more of a forest feeling. I like that the bottom right corner is almost white, while the top left is darker green too. It gives the illusion of a luminous spring. Did you do that with your eraser, or was that just a mistake with the flash during the making of the photo?
It doesn't need colour in my opinion, by the way.

The anatomy of her body is perfect. No wierd, misplaced body parts or other odd arm curves. Her face is really nice too. Very calm.

What I would've liked though is a bit clearer surroundings. The flat surface she's sitting on doesn't give the impression of nature / a forest. If she hadn't dropped her hair in the water, I also wouldn't have known it was water. Though you have a clever technique to let people know it's water. So mixed feelings about that.

[Fionna]

Cute

I can't say I've seen adventure time, but from what I know of her and the show (and google images), she looks alike. Her backpack looks natural, and her posture, and how she stands, looks nice too. The bunny ears and the hair like that make her cute too. Though her hands seem a bit oddly shaped.

The under part of her body, and especially her legs, are nicely drawn. You kept pretty close to the original, and that's meant in a positive way.

To make it a bit more appealing, you could give the backgrounds more of a style, like floral, or some other forest-naturish trees or bushes. The green circle looks a bit too simple. That can be the style too, but I would've liked it more if you made a somewhat more detailed background.

PinkRose11 responds:

Thank you :) Yeah, the hands are bad, and they were the last thing to do so I kinda rushed it. And I will work on backgrounds some more (Im so bad ;_; ) Thanks again!

[Nightwolves]

Amazing

I've been wanting to review this for a long time, mainly because I thing this piece is the best of all your art.

One of the two reasons I like it so much is because the atmosphere is set great. It's not hard to imagine a club of small children like this in real life, it may as well be that children like them sit on the roof of my house at night. You can see the contentness, and also a bit of fear in the eyes of the children.

The children themselves are the second reason I love this artwork. They seem to all have the same emotion: doubt. They wonder if they really need to be here. Only one kid isn't doubting, the sitting kid. He's probably the leader of the group, and likes it here. Though you can see him best, the best drawn character is the girl in the back, I don't know whether she is Kim or Amy. She's pretty cute.

That's just the story that's the most obvious in my eyes, and the story I think of when I see it. But you can make up all sorts of other stories, and that's also the charm of this piece of art.

[Dead of Winter]

Chilly

This is just not as good as your other pictures because there isn't much in it. The background is all one colour, and there isn't any shading or difference in the snow.
The drips of blood and the foot sinking in the snow are nice effects though.

I won't give this a low score, because the lack of detail is also what attracts me to this picture. All the attraction goes to Nene, who is drawn great. Especially the scarf and the cloud coming out of her mouth make it really look like it's ice cold there.

To make it completely great im my eyes, you will have to make a bit more detailed background, but not so detailed that it pulls all the attention. I certainly am not able to do it, but maybe it's possible for you?

[The Tone Fulps]

Awesome

There's nothing wrong with this picture. It has a good theme, the guitars and everything fit really well. And most importantly, it seems really finished.

The comical style of this piece of art is great too. The small details like the crack on the floor finish the piece completely. I also like how you did the background. Where there would normally be an ''empty'' space, is now even more detail.

Maybe some sort of audience would make it even better. Some flowers being thrown at them (Or rotten tomatoes) would give it even more an idea of a concert. Now it looks like they're not playing, especially with the drummer holding his drum sticks to his chest. Some musical notes in the piece will give a more dynamic feel.

[Ross Fenton and the Explosion]

The shading is a bit off.

The shading seems really wierd. The front of Ross' jacket is the brightest, meaning that the light must come from between the viewer's point of view, and him. That would mean, because the explosion is the light source, the explosion is smaller than him. And certainly not in the distance.

Ross looks pretty cool. His mouth is perfect for this painting, and so are his eyebrows. You could've reflected something in his sunglasses though, to make it a bit more detailed. His right hand seems very off too, it looks more like a pencil than a hand.
To make it a bit better, you could do something with his red jacket too, like buttons or a zipper at least.

It would be somewhat nicer too if something exploded. And by that I mean that now it's just a random explosion. It would be nicer if something like pieces of metal, or whatever exploded, flew around the painting.

You could've done something with the right of the painting too. Just making it black doesn't seem too realistic with an explosion next to it: at least there would be some light, and maybe something to see.

MisterTig responds:

Thanks for reviewing. I found this review helpful, and you've give me great tips for my future art.

[Room 1]

Too plain.

No really, it would be nice if we would have had something to look at.
This drawing is made out of only 27 lines, and only five different colours, so there aren't any details to look at. Things like the text on the door that is just a line or two makes it unfinished.

Spend more time on detail, but most of all, check your art one last time before you submit it. Out of the already very few lines, most of them are a few millimetres too long, meaning they stick out.

By the way, I'm not an art expert, but it seems to me that the line under the grey parts to the sides means that it's all one wall, without an opening. It seems to me though that you wanted to have an opening there in the wall.
Talking about the openings, something should come out there. Maybe just a hand, but at least something, to give it for example a bit of a scary feeling.

In general, it almost seems that I spent more time on this review that you on that art piece.
It's 3D, sure, and for practicing it's a well done picture. But it isn't a great picture to just look at as art.

[Trying to be gangster...]

Such a difference

I'm not really an art specialist, but in my opinion the wall seems to be done so much better than the potato. The wall is really great, in fact, it looks more like a wall than the wall of my house. The potato looks a bit too smooth, it would look more like a potato if you made it look a bit uglier, and with a bit more detail.
The eyes of the potato look nice though. A bit silly.
Last, the lighting. It looks good if you look at the shading around the potato, but on and directly behind the potato there isn't any shading at all. I at least expected some differences in his hair colour. Though you don't need too much shading, since the light shines on the front of his head.

PlusPlusKid responds:

dude, the wall is just a texture!