Kwing's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Happy Winter Solstice]

Very crisp, the lighting and color scheme are totally incredible. The cans in the back look pretty rough and the 'cocoa' on the machine looks like the letters are spaced pretty unevenly but your model is gorgeous and the linework looks damn near flawless.

[Ecorche]

Jesus, you've really outdone yourself with this. I couldn't even list a dozen of these muscles. The rough linework looks really great here, great coloring too.

[Blonde on black]

Really incredible. Scrolling up from the bottom, most of it looks like an old photograph, especially because of the contrast used. This entire image is nearly flawless, the only issues I can see are the jawline and slightly asymmetrical eyes. The nose looks a lot more drawn than the rest of the image (which seems almost photorealistic) but there's nothing wrong with it.

Incredible work.

Flashmovieboy responds:

Thanks for the feedback :)

[Daily Sketch January 6th 2014]

I'm really not sure what to say except that this is a really clean drawing. Every goddamned detail looks perfect and just blends amazingly. Looks like the cover of a novel or something.

[edmund]

It looks like there's a fair amount of laziness here. I really like your work around the eyes (the right eye reminds me of the album cover for I by Meshuggah) but I feel like there's a better way to do almost everything that you did do.

First off, if your aim was just to make this odd and disturbing, I would have done away with the string around the eye and opted for some copper wire instead. The other eye could probably use some more smudging around the border that runs around it, maybe stain it with something gray to make it less defined?

What really bothers me though is that you just stuck some string in different parts of the body to make stitches. Did it never occur to you to actually rip it open and stitch it back together for a more realistic effect? Would have been neat to see some kind of gray stuffing bulging out of the sides. You also could have soaked the edges of the tears in something to make them pop out more.

The Frankenstein sackboy is an interesting idea, execution seems mediocre to me.

[Origami Raptor]

Really great work, I've always been a fan of black and white artwork. The lighting looks nice and soft whereas the shape is crisp and well-defined. The slightly pale outlines of the image give it a slight glowing effect. Towards the middle the lighting and folds get kind of intricate and almost abstract, which kind of bug me seeing as I'm not really sure what I'm looking at.

AlexierXVII responds:

Thanks Kwing! That's one hell of a review. The lighting part that bugs you, if you look closely, it's actually the shadow of that tail sticking out, the contrast in the shadow is very high, but that's suppose to be the shadow of the tail. Hope that helps. Again thanks for that awesome review.

[Ghost girl]

What the fuck...? Her face is so cute, why'd you have to go and make her boobs the same size as it? Really great work though.

The way the legs cross seem a little off and the feet seem strange too since I can't really gauge how her weight is balanced. Overall I like the slightly unreal style you have going on here.

[Earth's continents]

Cool idea but this image just doesn't 'do it' for me. I think the biggest thing is that there just isn't that great of a resemblance between the body positions and the continents. Peering into the background it looks as if you might be hinting at the outlines, maybe you should have done that a little more clearly or found some other way to point out the shapes a little more clearly. I also think it's kind of strange that the women are wearing almost the exact same things - no traditional saris or anything.

Ultimately I feel like the implication and the whole geographical aspect should be jumping out at me immediately instead of me relying on the title to understand what it is. The body-continent thing is a direct reference, not a charged political or moral statement, and I think that's why you can afford to be a little bit more direct.

By the way, I would really love to see a penguin laying across the bottom of the picture.

[Vercing]

Holy shit. You seriously didn't think of posting art on Newgrounds before now? This is really fabulous work. I love the lighting and proportions. The horns and shirt stick out as being particularly detailed, though I also love the eyes and the precise curvatures by the bridge of the nose.

One general issue I've noticed is that the lighter shades of this image just seem to have transparent white over them, and it gives the picture a false sense of bloom. A few of the lines are a little too soft in my opinion too. The undershirt and backpack straps are big examples of this.

Still, really good. I had no idea you could do stuff like this.

ShinsukeIto responds:

Always the first to comment, Kwing. Many thanks!

Your reviews are always a treat to read - quite poetic, might I add.
Your criticism, along with a fresh pair of eyes, has also helped me in considering aspects that could be improved, and for that, I thank you! ^^
My art isn't THAT good, haha, you're making me blush! >u<

Thanks again for the review, and also for the five stars!

[Give It To me!]

There are a lot of things I could nitpick on here, but when I step back and look at the big picture you mostly have the proportions right and things look nice and steady. It seems like with a bit of tweaking you could fix this up a lot.

One of the odd things I noticed about the characters' postures is the way the knees don't seem to bend the right way. Either they just don't bend at all, or perhaps the slender proportions of thighs and calves make the positions seem a little unrealistic. In addition to the zombie's left leg being a great example of this, the girl's right seems not to have quite ENOUGH of a bend in it, and other minor things like the zombie's right calf just seemed slightly -off- to me.

The slight blur on the edges and on the floor reflection are nice and bring focus to the characters and the center of the image, although I felt the reflection was just a little too clear for my liking. Still, the bright colors maintain the focus; in particular, the girl's pink hair and pants give her a certain vibrant appearance that stands in contrast with the more grayed-out zombie.

As far as other colors go, the girl's scarf seemed to blend just a little too well with the tank top, which, for a moment, gave me the illusion that they were the same piece of clothing until I zoomed in. Perhaps a slight color change there would have been welcome.

Finally, and most importantly, the first thing I noticed about this picture that kind of annoyed me was the depth of the hole in the zombie's torso, or rather, the lack of depth. The clothing isn't bloody enough, but more importantly the hole makes him appear paper-thin. Simply adding a nice big crescent there would have made it look much more realistic, even if it would have made the hole look a bit smaller.