TurkeyOnAStick's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[kitty war sneak peak]

I'm sorry ...

... but I like this WIP far too much.
Now every moment this comic isn't finished and on the art portal/on a website I'm going to be overwhelmed with misery.

You bastards.

Got some character sheets? They look awesome.

dommi-fresh responds:

bloody hell we better get cracking

[Music]

Music

Really fun, and an explosively colourful! You've got some nice design work on your characters as well.

The problem is its very cluttered and disorganised. I get the impression the stuff in the background is thrown together; the wing and speaker look out of place.
There's not really much thought behind the colour, either. The girl is wearing reddish browns, yet the guy is white, yellow and blue. Coupled with the random colours in the background, everything just clashes against each other.

Keep up the good work, though.

Flying-pen responds:

Thank you too, and for the letter as well. I'll deffinetly keep going, even thought it'll take some time to get some new art done.

I'll keep your tips in mind. ^^

[mindchamber's red baron!]

Needs more turkey

... yeah, JakBaronKing gave you a rightly chosen request!

The dynamic jump and sword, coupled with the turkey and stream of junk food really gets the Red Baron's junkish, ass-kicking character down to a T.

Off topic, but the colours reminds me of a Nando's menu - spicy portugese chicken! Gorgeous palette and textures, chap.

Marks are lost cos it looks like a portion of his abdomen has gone missing, since he's curving over in a chunk suit of armour, but I still love you, jouste.

jouste responds:

a fair review friend!

glad i encapsulated the asskicker well with his junk food scarfing ways. i had to laugh when you said the nando's menu palette. a total accident but quite fitting for a man who likes his grilled chow! ;D

thanks a pile for stopping by with the review and highscore turkey. it is always good to hear from you.

*highfives*

[Narcissa]

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Really cool, Reginald. Favourite bit is the hot red wings juxtaposed against the cold lights from an awesome mask design.

Suggestions would be not to draw your character concepts so that their feet lay flat on the floor. If you check out Jouste's concepts, for example, the view point looks over the feet, rather than head on.

The pose is also lifeless, and doesn't add much to the character concept. The anger you mention in your description isn't coming across - maybe because of the mask, but her pose seems pretty chilled out.

I also think the robe folds are excessive, and doesn't naturally fall over the shape of the body. The belt doesn't look like it's tied round the body; it's more like a decoration.

Hope you do well this week.

Re2deemer responds:

Those wings were pretty much my favourite part to paint, mainly because I used a very Painter-ish program that had those delicious wet brushes.

The feet were a problem for myself too. They were originally covered by cloth, but then I still drew them sticking out. That created the conflict with the background that you noticed and so I just cropped the as much of the lower edge of the image as possible, hoping that no-one's watchful eyes wouldn't notice them :P
Admittedly she was never meant to be Hulk-angry though, more of a apathetic at all the pain she caused/was about to cause.
Guess I keep practicing those folds then!

Cheers for the review, Turkey!

[Have a Rabbid Xmas!]

Oh yes

Ha, this is awesome! The gift-wrapped presents, cap and xmas lights caps off a great model of a rabbid.

Would love, love, LOVE to see an original 3D submission from you, Peter. You've got the moves to pull it off.

EvilRaccoon responds:

Definetly! I'll see what I can cook up! Thanks for the score and review!

[Care for a smoke?]

We fade to grey

I don't know if it's a preference of yours, but to me you always shy away from having a wide variety of values(?) in your work, which leaves features weaker and a struggle to look around your pic.

I've fixed your pic up on PS on what I think it should be like: http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/3071/idiotm.jpg
Easy job, just pushed the levels inward, and tweaked the colours where the contrasting butchered them.
This has made the eyes piercing, emphasised colder shadows on the face and flaunts your brush strokes.

idiot-monarch responds:

Idk, I think that what you did with the pic is a bit extreme, but I do agree that the values in my pics are off. Even though I wanted this piece to be gray, it does all blend together too much.

[Conch]

Oh great.

Christ, this is awful. Apophysis can prodice so nice fractals, but this is the opposite end - some guy shifting and making triangles with no purpose, and producing something at random.

No form.
No pattern.
No colour.
Tripe.

MarshmallowGherkin responds:

Thank you so much for your /constructive/ criticism.
However, sadly, I disagree with you.
Sure the fractal flames I make aren't the best, but you are severely outnumbered when it comes to these accusations you have made. Everyone else from the various sites I have posted this on have commented on the great combination of form, colour, and pattern; all these things you claim I have forgotten.
Once you change your screen brightness from 1 to 100, please verify that you can see the infinitely repeating swirls, shapes, and patterns, as well as the interesting gradient and obvious shell-like shape.

Please think before posting useless reviews. I don't mind criticism at all, but make sure it is indeed constructive.
Thank you. :)

[Bass Invaders]

aye

Without a shadow of a doubt, its the bottom one. The radial speakers and the colour do it for me.

The text is a struggle to read, tho. Maybe get rid of the drop shadow and put a border round it, so it's more constrasted?
Maybe replacing the squiggly border with the bars from the back of the 2nd concept up?

mraw responds:

thanks, glad u like the latest, its gone to print already tho. i made some slight changes before, ill upload the new one
cheers for the feedback

[ugh]

fart in my mouth

Looks like he's been punched in the face by an oncomig gust of wind.

Low forehead?
Long, untwisted neck?
Red stuff flowing right, when should be making a U-turn left?
You've looked at it too much?

Mouth, hair and horizontals are nice. Mmmmmmm.

sucho responds:

i love that people keep assuming its male. that never crossed my mind. noted once more.

[Self]

Ohmigosh

WOW this puts all your other stolen works to shame.
Even if yu claim to do this in 15, there's no way whoever drew this is as competent with faces than the guy who drew the girls.

Doomion responds:

PM'd.