Seriousle's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Kiss]

i would have liked to see smoother line work, notice how jagged it is, and how unatural that makes the piece feel, also the white smudges on the neck? i dont quiet get them either :P
also if your going to shade the chin from a top down light, there should be shading under the nose, and under the bottom lip and top lips :P but i can overlook that from the cartoon picture type, just clean the lines make them alot smoother keep it up and good job :)

ZekiDance responds:

Ah yes I totally agree with you! I could've done more but I just chose not to because I was tired. I might fix it more and re-upload it. c:
Thanks for the advice though! <3

[Ookami]

hey your shading is good i like it i feel it, what bugs me is the big head as you stated but thats fine its a personal touch, but for me, the complete lack of emotion in that face, theres no expression nothing you expect to feel that emotion from someone stuck in an office cubical for 8 hours not a magic wolf demon fighting giant worms.. and that really bugs me, if i where to suggest anything! work on expression get that emotion across that tense battle, the anger ferocity etc try make your viewer feel it.
otherwise! good job :) keep at it

[Space]

I dont fully understand this piece from you, looking at your previous work, it doesnt really fit with what you seem to do, for example, and the whole reason im giving you 2 stars, your previous work your coloring is smooth, your shading is for the most part impeccable, your hand on the dragon ball, fantastic, but this.. the whales lines are clean granted..
the shading.. makes no logical sense at all, it just seems to have been applied almost randomly? then you've thrown the planets ontop which is fine, i can deal with that.. but you have scratched not shaded a galaxy i can only assume around that, which is in 100 diffrent directions its not smooth it doesnt capture the enormity of the picture.. i just really think you have either rushed this.. or it simply wasnt a passion project im not sure

either way, your previous work amazing. this particular piece i could just be an asshole who doesnt get it? who knows :) keep it up and keep at it

LucasMZ responds:

I understand you
In fact this piece is very different of what I like to do. But this one I wanted to make more... "light", without so much details.
A friend of me came with this ideia, he said he dreamed with this and asked if I could draw it, so I draw it XD
Actually I don't had spent a long time making this one, and I think it explains the quality of the geral result.
But thanks for commenting, it helps a lot ^^
(I'm brazilian and I'm not totally fluent in english, so I hope you understant any mistake I may have made)

[Monster]

good clean lines, your shading is good, and the posture is really well executed, 1 glaring flaw to me in my eyes, the word monster across the shirt.. you have chosen to go for a perfectly skin tight shirt and you've done it well with shading and everything, then you've written monster across the top of it, its not bent to the contours of the shirt at all, the N S and T all transcend off the shirt and skip over the crease of the breast, this however if the only major flaw i can see, good piece well done :)

[waterfall]

im very curious was the water an after thought in this? or was it always designed as a dream type picture/ abstract?
im wondering because what it looks like you've done is you've made a scene with 2 cliffs peaking in an arch over a valley in with a night sky, then decided to add glowing water from the heavens that are now rushing through the valley ignoring any realism as its following sideways along a hill :P
overall your colors are really striking and the scene is pretty well done my usual complaint of reviews about shadows are pretty irrelevant here with the glowing water lighting everything up :P

But overall its really well done, only thing for future pictures i would suggest with your valley you've put the same amount of effort into trees in the foreground that you have in the distance, the way of nature is the trees in the distance will have almost no detail at all, where at the trees in the foreground will have all the shading and details in the world, so don't spend as much time on the stuff in the back and focus your details on the foreground :)

ZabuJard responds:

thanks for the review man

[Floki]

fantastic piece really one of the better ones i have seen, im curious though especially with your lighting, so you have based on your highlights a large light from the right hand side, or/and behind on the right side there, however, the inconsistencys come, where you also have based on the left hand cheek light from the top center, the nose has direct right light the chin has light from the bottom right hand side the right cheek is directly right and the forhead has a center light with no shading from the hair :) overall you have around 6 or 7 diffrent light directions based on what i can see just causing some inconsistancy, which is why i gave a 4.5 not a 5, but please this is abosolutly one of the best pieces keep them coming and (best char ever :P )

i just figured most people would like an honest review, because simply being told amazing doesnt give much to learn from :P

Rhasdra responds:

Best comment I got in ages. This kind of stuff helps so much!

Thank you.

[Untitled]

Amazing piece mate, im curious though in lower parts of the clothes, and the outer parts too, your shading went from smooth and it looks like you put in the effort to on the outsides, scratchy and like you rushed to finish? especially prominent to me in the lower quater :) however! please dont think of this as a stab at you, overall the piece is really well done and keep up the awesome work :D if it was a conscious design choice to scratch and focus less on the outer and then work into the facial area then fair enough :)

Luciaea responds:

Thanks for commenting! I actually started shading in the lower quarter and applied more work as I neared focal points... attempting to master detailed vs. illustrated parts of the work. Less of a conscious design choice and more of just practicing getting the important parts as detailed as possible.