TurkeyOnAStick's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Robot]

Tobor

Great highlights, great rendering, great perspective.
I hope you're proud of yourself.

I've deducted a point because you haven't yet tagged this robotday2011, and that's just silly for something of this standard.

Please remedy this.

J-qb responds:

remedy-d

[Just want to be real]

Just Now Treatable

Amazing linework. No joke, I saw the WIPs and I was looking forward to the final result.

However, the colouring/lighting destroys it.

The details you have in the head, body and hands are lost in the darkness, and the only thing we're left to look at is the lipstick nose and the palm of the hand.

Is the nose meant to be glowing? The glow around it suggests it is. However, it has a shadow, and is just not white enough to be the source of light. You've also got highlighted brilliant white ridges dotted around the plates which, due to the lack of secondary light source, make no sense.

Please make another attempt at colouring the linework.

[Leaves nothing to B remembered]

Misgoverned Bathrobe Element

The linework is great, a cyborg hydra ticks all the right boxes for me!
I think your painting is a bit ambitious, however. You've got a few regions of different colours (red, grey, blue and purple), which don't work together as a whole. Keep your colour scheme simple, and let your linework do the talking.

You've also got some blotchy spots of shading on the hydra, which looks clumsy compared to the details in the linework. Also I feel your castle is a bit impoverished of attention compared to the hydra, and whatever it's seated on looks more like a planet than a hill.

Hydra rarrarararar

Ramatsu responds:

Yeah it was abit of trouble keeping it consistent with a mouse, and the program would close when ever it wanted so I would save it like every few minutes, was a pain in the ass... But yeah I would have to show you some of my concept landscapes for this planet it's huge and it has odd shapes for the mountains water hills, etc. This planet has an unamed number of moons and has 75 suns orbiting around it instead of it orbiting around one sun,

[Nuke vs Solar]

Louse vs Nark

... yeah, looks like Nuke has won this! Although I doubt Solar would perform very well inside a building at nighttime. Great robot designs you've got here.

The colours are good, and done well with the glowing lights. However, Nuke is totally overbearing Solar in the pic. Not only is there a lot of green in the lighting (and solar is yellow), but Nuke is huge, and his arm cannon covers up most of Solar! I'm ok with the proportions of Nuke not matching those of a human. However, he's leaning forward a lot! He'd probably fall over, especially with his size 4 shoes.

A good pic, nonetheless!

Rennis5 responds:

That arm cannon is actually a chainsaw and nuke is one of my main characters that i have been drawing for years so that kinda has to do with why he so dominate in the drawing
thanks for you'r review

[Color Me Red]

Doc Mel Rore

I see what you're going for with the soulless audience, and it's a tough pic to pull off. But TVs are output devices, and not intended for the reception for the performance, only the broadcasting.

She's looking off to the viewer but, even if this was some form of 4th wall thing, I don't understand the purpose in this pic apart from getting a good view of her face. Be careful with the angles of the planks, as well.

Knocturne responds:

Yeah, I guess I was being a bit pretentious with this drawing. I chose the TV as the heads because well, I love drawing tv headed things and because of their inability to function as an audience, and in terms of audiences as a performer I feel like they can only receive information that's displayed by the performer so in that sense all they are doing is rebroadcasting and in that there's a disconnect.

I chose to make her turn away from the audience and have her look down to the viewer's left to strengthen that feeling of disconnect with the audience and the somber mood I was trying to convey with color choise and the overall composition, but if none of that was evident than I didn't really portray it well haha, thanks!

[Loge]

Lego

The thought's there, yeah! I see you want the raging mechancial beast opposite the loving natural woman. I could comment on why this woman is hanging onto this dangerous bastard, but I shouldn't read too much into the scenario - she is in the nuddy, after all. Overall, I'm loving the opposites.

I think the pose of the robot could have a more aggressive clenching of the fist. I think the contours on the robot could a bit more definition too. The highlighting is a bit diffuse for metal, too.

[War Paint]

Wan Tapir

Great pic. I like the shading and the lighting you've got going on around it, and the details are ab fab.

I'm gonna deduct a point since the design is still Mindchamber's. Also you could aim to make the plates look more like metal/painted metal.

[glow squad]

Gold Squaw

Good pastel colours and good shading. It's odd that that you've accounted for the lighting from the pink bot on the brown bot, yet skipped doing this for the other bots. Also the light from the pink bot would come from behind, not in front, of the brown bot. Also since the brown bot is next to the wall, the pink bot has to be pretty skinny to be behind it.

But that's me being pedantic. I think you could create some more dynamic poses, particularly on the green bot (nicknamed Ash), who's just moping around.

Maybe he's in a huff because he doesn't have a floaty disc.

[Non sento niente.]

Sentient En Noon

Rather good. Robots are awkward to display emotion well (due to static expressions), so it's interesting to see that you've flipped this and turned it to your advantage: a robot with a constant expression of agony. Did the creator choose the human form and its emotions to torment it? Who knows.

Face details are excellent, along with the body work and the red glow coming from behind the body ... with some light passing through the body cavities of the bot.

Hmmm .... cables could use some slight highlights, and I'm not sure if the white light is embedded in his chest or hovering in the air (for whatever reason), due to how you've highlighted the chest. Otherwise I'll give you a perfect 10.

[Colored Angry Robot]

Croon Glory Aborted

Reminds me of those photos of angler fish, with the pitch black background, lone light source and large gaping maw! Very scary.

Does it look angry? No, but emotion is very difficult on robots, especially if they don't have a body to express it with. The choice of hat is interesting, so would love to know more about the character.

Shading could be improved, however, the highlights and shadows have very soft and muted edges; this type of diffuse lighting is what you'd expect from something like clay than steel or battered iron. Also the highlighting abruptly stops at the shoulder, even though we can see the neckline clearly. If the edges of shoulders were shown, the lighting from the pic would feel more natural.