TurkeyOnAStick's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[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!

[The Happy Machines]

The Epiphany Chasm

Nice background glow.
Colours are great.
Could do with more features in the background.

THAT IS ALL. Bye now.

ImpendingRiot responds:

Thanks Rob. Yeah, I wimped out on the background :(

I appreciate the review :3

[AVAT round 1 - deadly robot]

derp

Great details. Rib cage, spine, this fella's got a body to die for.

I don't share Lego's opinion on colour, I think the solitary pin prick of red is fine. But, bearing in mind this is the only source of light in the pic, it could be brighter. Also as a whole, even if I think this robot is locked in a closet (thinking about where the light switch is), the pic could be brighter.

But, as I said, body to die for.

dommi-fresh responds:

cheers turkey

[Robotic Postapocalyptic]

yawks

Good grief Kami, you're quick off the starting line for the Robot Day art contest! That's a hefty standard you've laid down.

Liking the metal exoskeleton that covers the glowing endoskeleton, and the blank monitor faces makes me think they lay down the law (probably their own!) in this post-apocalyptic setting. Can't comment on your technique since it's tight in this pic, and I'm impressed you had the focus to get it all done today.

Kamikaye responds:

Wow thx ! I drank a whole bottle of icetea and had a striking idea after reading Tom's newspost. Sugar can be a drug.

Im glad you like it !

[Dreamquest Ghasts Hunt]

Interesting

This Lovecraft novella is one of my favourites, since it's an epic trek through the Dreamworld and it's chock full of creatures. I saw your Randolph Carter pic yesterday, and I was hoping you'd have a crack at visualising some of the monsters.

You haven't disappointed, and you've painted it well as usual. I think the lighting on the ghasts could be less brilliant and more yellow to fit in with the twilight lighting of the scene, but I'm being pedantic to excuse an otherwise glowing review.

If you plan to make a series of these paintings dedicated to the story, I'll be looking forward to the results.

ItoSaithWebb responds:

I actually have more and will post them in due time plus I plan to paint more however I have been told and have found that people do not respond well or at all when I throw them all out at once. Just before the Randolph Carter piece I do have the Ghouls from the Dreamlands though if you missed that one.

Glad you like the work.

[Kitty]

Hm

I still don't get how you're referencing the original pic. I made a GIF, and it appears you have matched up the shape of the cat perfectly.

http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/9d2a68eb6408d0d2ba3bbf5660e6d8a8

How are you starting off these paintings? I'm getting the impression you're simply painting over the original. Which is a bit of a shame, cos otherwise the brushwork in this pic is pretty nice, and pops out.

StudioGiselle responds:

Hi TurkeyOnAStick, I noticed you're not the only one who thinks I trace my work so I wrote a post about my methods. I use the grid system. I place the original photo on my right monitor with a grid made in Gimp and then on my left monitor I open the program I'll be using (in this case it was an online painting program; I usually use Gimp) make the same sized grid and then paint.

I used a tool in this one that I wasn't used to and was quite pleased with the results for the kitten but I hate the background. The program had a pencil tool where I could remove the line and keep the fill so I tried filling in the kitten shape all in one go. I had to do it in several stages but it gave it a more vector feel instead of my usual realism feel that I try so hard to accomplish with paint and spray brushes.

I hope this was helpful in understanding my process.

[The soul of the Storm]

Awwww

I was looking forward to a gorgeous image from the thumbnail, since the concept, patterns and colouring of this pic is really tight. I like the idea of having an armour that's similar to pot fragments - that seems like a nice idea to expand on with a more asymmetric design.

My problem is that the bright, long strands of the steam is the most distracting thing in the whole design. The white lightning confuses it further, since it's so similar! I think the steam leaking through the gaps in the armour is a strong enough idea on it's own, but I think simpler, unbranching, fading steam strands which all rise vertically would have worked better.

Keep up the good work, tho, since I follow your other creature concepts.

Undeadkitty13 responds:

i see it now if i tone it down it should look better
glad you like thanks

[Throbulator]

throbbing

Far too great.

I wanted to see how the back of the head looks like in the rendered view, and indeed it looks brain-like.

Good job on the warm coloured flesh and the cold metal feet replacements, too.

Savory responds:

I'll probably make a bunch of maps for it, like an emmissive on the brain!

[The Rabbit and the Heart]

pxxxl

Don't blame your mouse >:( There are a few people who prefer using mice to tablets for pixel art anyway, since you don't need to worry about brush strokes and gradual shading, and more about the bold colours and refining the shape of the characters.

The bunny's good, but the heart and rabbit poo on the ground look like they're slapped in to fill up space, but don't add to the pic.

I'll also recommend Derek Yu's tutorial, which contains lots of decent pointers about pixel art.

http://www.derekyu.com/extras/pixel01.html

EventHorizon responds:

thanks for the review!, ground the brown stuff you see is not the rabbit's poo, really should be acorns or nuts but as I feared people would have thought that was crap, however I'm glad you gave a vote of 6 and thanks for giving me the link on the pixel-art tutorial, very useful.