TurkeyOnAStick's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Fire Wolf]

I'm aware you're making a tit thumbnail to pull in views, but honestly you're not going to attract the people who will rate and review this properly. The shading and linework on your wolf's face are great, and so is your choice of colours. These have the pulling power, so flaunt them!

I think the huge empty space in the north west corner is daring, but ultimately makes the pic seem too spacious. I don't think the glow on the girl works too well, since she has also been shaded like the wolf. Had she been coloured like there was a light emitted from her, then the glow effect /may/ work. I don't think she's been seated on the wolf too well, either.

Diives responds:

Thanks for you review! I appreciate it so much, this say so much about you, you'r a very good artist!
I guess you'r right, really don't know how can I paint the girl if her is the light in the picture, I need more training.
The background is my worst area, I need to work so much in this part..
Thanks for the compliment about the wolf, I will do my best in the next work :)

[Memory]

I really enjoy the warm colours in your autumn leaves in this, and it's really refreshing to see a decent water colour.

However, I do find the hair looks as though it's standing up by itself, and I wouldn't believe it's caught in the wind since the leaves and grass aren't moving in the same direction.

(also the obnoxious review below bugs me)

Luciaea responds:

Thank you!! The hair and the outlining is a stylistic point more than it is an attempt to convey truth. I highly recommend looking at Mucha's girls - both elements are highly inspired by those paintings.

[CHoW 56 Succubus]

WELL I WONDER WHY THIS PIC IS IN "POPULAR ART"
HMMMMMMMMMMMMM

I reckon you could have avoided using outlines on this pic, Kinsei, and the hips are twisted compared to the torso.

I think the colour of your succubus would appear more yellow, since the backgrounds suggests she's under a yellowish light. Keeping this in mind would make your subject mesh with the background more easily, as well, since you're limiting the colour palette.

Kinsei responds:

Surely I have no clue why it would be so popular :3

Alright, I'll pour in a bit more thought in to the outlining. Perhaps trying to blend it in a bit more to the over all character or piece.

A twist in the hips indeed. I was trying to go for a twisted midsection, but it seems to not translate well.

Your right I should have used more yellowing in my highlighting. A result of poor planning in my opinion. I had the coloring done on her for about a day before I started a background. I hadn't even thought one up. So it was just kind of slapped in there.
This isn't the first time I've done this. I really do need to plan more.

Thanks ToaS. its nice to get some feedback.

[Flyguy page 5]

Ha, ok! That's a great ending.
I like the work you put in to the other pages, as well.

Flowers10 responds:

Thanks, put allot of effort into this!

[Mountains and stuff]

Somebody's had a busy week.

Flowers10 responds:

Appreciate it!

[Self Portrait]

Your other pixelised submissions are alright, but this picture and the Scaramanga one rub me up the wrong way. My gut's telling me that one of the first steps in producing them is running a photo through a filter, since the Scaramanga pic lines up, pixel-to-pixel, with an image found on Google.

I hope you avoid doing this in the future, and keep up the work where you develop the image from a blank canvas upwards, rather than upon a photo.

solidpawn responds:

Yeah, I can see how this is a problem. Thank you.

[The Big, the Bigger, and Huge]

That is kick-ass, Zane. I think the landscape could be livened up with some more features, since I can't quite tell if we're on a wateland, swamp, etc ... , but I can't deny that I was stunned on opening the image up.

Both the bug and the bloke blew me away.

ZaneZansorrow responds:

Thanks turkey :3

I'm thinking of removing the tree thing silhouette to see if I can give better information on the setting ;D

Maybe replace the silhouette with a smaller one.

[Krang]

Loving the linework, colouring and shading on this one; the discoloured shading tending to green works really well. Keep it up.

deathink responds:

Thanks man! This took a while to color, but it turned out better than I imagined it would.

[Merry and Pipen]

Oh lordy, I was so ready to love this pic when I saw it on your news post. I really like the linework and the colours, especially from the lightsources in front of the orc and behind it. Really great.

One thing that niggles me is the position of his rear leg a little awkward, since it's a bit screwy with the perspective (the size of the foot and angle of the leg, compared to its position on the ground) and his pose: looks like he's fit to topple and squash the hobbits.

A grand piece, nonetheless. Looking forward to more.

deathink responds:

Thanks man! I am looking forward to showing you more!

[Flood the Portal Friday 12]

Sorry Zane, but at best I like the dynamicism of the ninja-kick to the robot foetus, and the muted muscular shapes you've got going on in the ninja's figure.

Compositionally I think it's a bit lacklustre, and I think you're capable of doing so much more. The frog bot itself ... probably could be more out of focus, if you're focussing on the action in the foreground. I think you could have also made the frog's bonnet more symmetrical down it's centre too, since it's very off-putting currently.

The texture on the parapet is pretty clumsy, too. It's something I shouldn't need to comment on! Would be better if it was rotated and more sympathetic to the shape of the parapet, which could be achieved with the transform tool. The parapet doesn't seem to abide by the laws of perspective that your ninja is sticking too, either.

Good experiment with dynamicism, but I think it might be worthwhile to revisit perspective and composition in your next Flood pic. If you wanted to.

ZaneZansorrow responds:

Lintire beat you to it :P

I'll promise to keep these things in mind.