TurkeyOnAStick's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[durrrrgans]

a

I enjoy the mountains more than the dragons! Nice shapes, and a decent colour palette.

Apart from appearing a bit bare up top, I'm struggling to crit it at a technical level, since everything does the job.

I don't think the mountains or dragons need anymore detail, since you're illustrating how impossibly BIG these things are.
They're size is so difficullt to comprehend that not even the mountains do enough justice. I think they need some clouds or some atmospheric mist to really show their size. I also think these dragons are just passing through, temporarily roosting on earth's mountains before flying off to another world, since they surely they're too large to rest on those mountains.

J-qb responds:

good point on the clouds/atmosphere stuff.

[Dragon vs Kraken]

r

Oh, I see it's a foggy day now. Alright.
The pic's very adventurous, making it a tangle of lithe shapes that are only distinguishable by their colours. The detail on the dragons face looks great, too.

Whilst you're looking at creating an unholy tangle, in pics like this composition is the key. Can you use your other tentacles/body to point you to your focal points in your image, or help you follow around the action in the image.

Otherwise I find the dragon head doesn't align itself to the body, and the rear horn should be rotated anti-clockwise to provide a symmetrical dragon head. Some more suggestions of mist wouldn't go amiss, and I think the mane hair could have used a bit more attention.

A good attempt, and hopefully it paves the way for more epic scenes.

ZaneZansorrow responds:

I guess I'm still a long way to go to understanding some key things in my art, I'll definitely keep in mind on ways to demonstrate "focus". Plus remembering to fix up anatomical problems >3>

[Sleeping Giant]

d

I'm liking how you've shown the depth of the image via the dark-foreground-light-background, and the blurriness of stuff up close and far away.

I find the central hill covers too much of the dragon up for it to capitalise on it's content, and too much of the dragon is visible to make it shrouded in mystery. Also I find that the bold straight silhouette of the mountain make it difficult to appreciate there are conifers on the hill - no matter the distance.

Ramatsu responds:

bummer :(

[onLy]

To MC

(at the risk of saying something incredibly stupid, and totally contrary to the original artist's reason)

The panelled line on the face: yeah, when you see robot illustrations, the seams follow the shape of the body, rather than forming a straight 'slice'.
However:
- I think the artist already knows this, since the panel edges on the torso follow the shape.
- The vertical line on the face doesn't destroy the pic; I find it helps draw your eye down the whole image.
- It's an interesting feature, since it seems that the robot has been posed at this precise angle, and makes you wonder what would happen to the contour of the seam if the head was just turned towards you.

Or not. But I still enjoy what that seam adds to the face.

All in all, nice earthy colours, great hair, and some nice brushes used for the background and skin. Can't fault it.

FallenBane responds:

There's a lot of thought put into your comment, so it's far from being stupid, I assure you. But you're right - I made the line straight too add a more...surreal feel to it, I guess? If that's the right way to put it.

It's pretty interesting how all of you are interpreting it though, haha.

But anyway, glad you like it!

[My Only Friends.]

Yup

I'm really enjoying the fresh take on the characters, especially those blue and yellow fellas who could fit right in. The ideas you've included in the costumes are ace. Those hands on some of the guys are pretty teeny-tiny, though.

[Parade]

+10 Floodsaving points to Zane

Colours are great, and the brushes you've used on the border and the blokes are just as fab. I also like the bandy legs.

I think if you spent a few more mintures, you could refine details on the front drummer's face, though. Also your drum is a bit squashed up top!

ZaneZansorrow responds:

Now that you mention it, I do notice those faults, thanks for mentioning it turkey :3

[Precious Grass]

Urf

Whilst I enjoy the occasional fractal, I have no love for this, nor any of your other submissions. For two reasons:
- It's ugly, simplistic and contains no patterns.
- The pic is randomly shitted out from a Render Filter in GIMP. There is barely any artistic control whatsoever (apart from colour gradients and other filters they decide to toss on), and can be made in 5 minutes.

[Skyrim]

summaries are for suckers

ooohhhhhhhhhhh

The story and joke is spot on. I reckon you could provide empty versions of the final two panels, and let people insert their own punchline in.

I tend to look at the pics before reading the dialogue in comics however, so I could see the punchline coming before getting through the set-up. For that reason I think the panels would work better if the two were clearly separated: noir in the top half, Skyrim on the bottom.

The other reason I wanted to review is that lazy eye is freaking me out.

[Musketeer]

aight

Just want to point out to the two guys below me that you probably have seen this before. I think Cosec has had a clear out of his art portal entries, and reuploaded them recently.

Cosec's a fab artist, tho. Worth keeping tabs on.

<deleted> responds:

Yes, that's correct. Thank you.

[Mixtape Symphonies]

Ack

Every time you submit something you tick all of the boxes to my heart (bold vivid colours, creative content, textures, etc.).

Keep hitting the right buttons, please.

M1as responds:

Oh Dear. I think the kindest and warmest critique somebody ever wrote for me.
<3