Kwing's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[It's Your Lucky Day]

The high saturation in this picture is really interesting, particularly in the reds and yellows. I like the contrast with bright figure vs. dark room, but I definitely think it would have been a bit cooler to expand more on the shadows to bring out the contrast. Overall the shapes are nicely surrealistic, which fits the color scheme and makes for a cartoony yet sober look and overall mood. The splotches do an exceptionally good job of mixing simple outlines with more complex particle textures.

I guess the only thing that really sticks out here is the symmetry of the nurse, which is somewhat strange considering that all monsters in Silent Hill bolster their eeriness by moving in a very unnatural and unsymmetrical fashion. Other than that you're in good shape.

[The Slender Man]

Wow, this looks truly excellent. The eye sockets make this look a lot less like Slender and a lot more like some kind of skull monster, but I'm not complaining (I've heard the word Slender this past month enough for a lifetime).

You may have only used 8 colors, but you certainly picked good ones! The white, gray, and red make a nice contrast to the darker colors without disrupting the mood of it, while the different darker shades keep things nice and atmospheric. My only real problem is that the dark colors are similar enough, and the image itself is narrow enough, that I can't get a really good look at his tentacles or the forest behind him.

[Explorer]

Loving the pixelation and shading right now. Everything about this is just great. the dimensions really pop! My only criticism is that all of the formations of the rocks and stuff are the identical bridge things. Some stalactites might help make the image look more natural.

[perfect hamorny]

Wow, your stuff in black and white is always the best! I really love the softness of what you've got here, it looks incredible! Not much else to say about this one.

[JCZ Junkbot Fighter]

Outstanding. The color and pose are excellent, and the limbs look fantastic too. The proportion of the body to limbs is kind of strange, but it IS a robot, and if this is a model of an existing bot (JCZ Junkbot Fighter sounds awfully specific) then I can't really bug you there. I'd say the biggest thing that really impresses me is how metallic it looks. Your work is unreal!

[human marine]

Great picture! The lighting and shapes look really well done, and cast a great atmosphere! I think the lights should cast their light outward a little bit more, though, since the fog around the model is so thick. The neck also seems a little bit too long, although that might also be the angle at which you drew it.

[Strickmiez]

Furry Mystique... Can you say YES?! Red hair, blue fur. Really cute. I LOVE the colors you put on this, very intense and lots of contrast. The stripes, shadow, and hair all had VERY pronounced colors, which I really, really liked. The shapes also had a great combination of smoothness and sharpness, which I thought showed itself best in the ruffles of the skirt and wrinkles in the shirt.

The face seemed particularly wide to me but the combination of it with the neck, hair, and ears helped even it out. The facial expression is really good and the eyes are pleasing to look at.

The only things I felt were off were the slimness of the model's arms, and the consistent thickness of her tail. The tail really seemed weird because the fluffiness stayed the same from base to tip, where as almost all creatures with furred tails either have a fluffier tip, or begin to taper off into a slim tip immediately from the base.

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Yes, there is a god, when there still exist people, who manage to actually write a meaningful comment! Thank you.

Well even though I am not so totally into this image anymore, you make me aware again of the nice elements of it. Yes, the head looks a 'little' weird, but my excuse is, that I am totally not experienced with feline characters. And I personally don't like her eyes XD This is my old style of drawing them so big, but it's not like you get eye cancer.... from the eyes XD

Your arguments about arms and tail seem to be alright. Yes, her arms could have a little better shape, and where I read to the end of your comment, I see what you mean about the tail, which is also right. I wasn't aware of that little element, though I have to say, that is a little element of realism, which doesn't seem so extremely important to me XD

[Egypt]

Wow, excellent! You've got some great style! The whole thing is a little asymmetrical for my taste, but little things that were kind of crooked, like perpendicular line over the ankh, were barely noticeable due to how intriguing the fine details were. The shadow, or whatever it was at the top right, seemed a little bit distracting though.

[robotday2011]

Decent Vectors and Colors, Poor Texturing

As stated above, I really like what you have here in terms of shapes and especially proportions, but everything looks so smudged and glossy it hurts almost just to look at it, compared with the elegant simplicity of old fashioned cartoons, or the realism of more modernistic 3D graphics.

[I have a bad habit.]

Absolutely Incredible

The smudge effects make an incredible film grain effect over the entire piece, which creates an excellent film noir quality, as it's in black and white. The blurring over everything and the subtlety to the shapes also look incredible, and the lines at the bottom make the final product look damned stylish. The girl at the top looks surreal, yet impossibly realistic, and I can't help but think that this was done centuries and centuries ago. AMAZING JOB!!