sixflab's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Little 'topus]

Octopus :3

-The name, while rather simple, made me enjoy this picture so much more. It's a bit ironic since it makes me think of a cute little octopus but it's kind of creepy and not that cute. The background could of used more work since it's messy. More of a blob in the background than an actual atmosphere or scenery.

-The actual octopus has some nice details involving the tentacles and how many it has. Of course it would have eight tentacles but four of them have orange stripes and four of them are just plain. This shows some cool little detail and makes me wonder whether the stripes are just on one side of the tentacles. I thought the head was rather oddly colored but it's not like anything about the octopus is normal.

-Review Request Club

WetPhyseter responds:

I feel a little sick when someone tells me about the background. A LITTLE!

[i just realized something]

Nice

-It's kind of trippy. Like a face inside of another face. Shadowing how something that you once had and was once so strong fell apart and you don't have it anymore. Honestly everyone goes through some time like this in their life and it tugs on your emotional and artistic sides at the same time. It's a bit dark but yet it has a bright outlook in spite of it. Definitely a piece that makes you think. Great Job with this.

sucho responds:

thanks, that actually means alot

[Japanese Wolf]

Review

-It's an interesting design having a said Japanese wolf considering that there aren't any wolves in Japan as to my knowledge. I could be wrong but it just takes away from things.

-The right front paw is just glaring at me right now. While all of the other three paws have some sort of shading that one doesn't have anything other than the fine outline and it makes it the odd one out. It makes it look really wierd and could of at least had a thicker paw outline.

-Other than that it looked fine to me though. The pen drawn wolf howling at the moon with japanese lettering on the side is great and maybe needed to be a little larger picture but it's fine the way it is size wise.

-Review Request Club

MonoFlauta responds:

Yes the most important problem is that i dont have scanner so i took a photo to upload it here

Thanks for reviewing

[Rainbow Tongue]

Great Job

This is definitely one of my favorite pictures on Newgrounds. It's just pure genius.

thomahawk responds:

Seriously? That's a great compliment. Thanks!!

[Oatmeal Raisin]

Yummy

You just made my day. I must get some oatmeal raisin cookies after seeing this picture. The drawing you did makes them look just as appetizing as they actually are. It's pretty amazing that you just did this in art class. My art classes always required me to do a certain thing and it was never interesting.

DLuftStudios responds:

Haha i hated my art class this year, my teacher is strict and a difficult grader. This year i i was the first person to get the first 100 avg in her class in like 3 years. I was expecting this to be remotely good, but thanks a lot man.

[Party Animals]

Gotta Catch Em All

-Well i'm positive they have vacations during the summer so why not have a party beforehand. I think it's pretty funny how you have each pokemon with a different type of party drug/drink. It's missing bulbasaur though :(

foxypanda69 responds:

well bulbasaur would have been on either crack or heroin and i thought that would be just a little too heavy for this. but pikachu does represent pokemon as a whole so... it kinda works out.

[Cleen the Clown]

Clowns

-Clowns are pretty cool in my opinion. Well the ones who don't have a side job as a creepy stalker or pedophile. They are just guys trying to get by in this world by submitting themselves to do hilarious antics and make cool little balloon animals for us.

-Using red, white, and blue for the color scheme is quite common as far as clown make-up and apparel goes. It looks a little odd having the paint around his mouth being blue though. I'm fine with the overalls being blue and all but the face just seems too colorful for a scary kind of clown. The hat seems very flat and needs better shading to give it a better cone shapeHis scruffy looking apparel must be pretty old and a sign of much wear and tear over the years. A bigger body sized picture would be better at elaborating this though.

-The eyes are very oddly shaped and are very different in size. It also doesn't help that the black coming down from the eyes isn't defined enough. It just looks like unsightly blobs coming down from his eyes the way they are. For some reason he is also missing his ears. Unless he had a horrible accident I don't see any reason to leave them out of the character design. He's getting up in his years(many wrinkles) and the spite he has towards children must have risen to very high levels making his facial expression have much more meaning. It's one of the best things going for Cleen the Clown.

-As mentioned before the picture just seems very small and doesn't allow for much detail in the character. It also doesn't allow for any sort of scenery in the background for Cleen the Clown. Maybe he's just inside of a circus tent of some sort. It's blurry at that too. I would of liked this to of had some cool props for him to play around with or someone that he is scowling at. As it is now it just looks very plain.

-Thus i'm left with a longing to figure out all of the stuff that you left out of this picture. As is it's just the beginning and a teaser of sorts. You really need to elaborate on the character for it to be better though.

-Review Request Club

MCarsten responds:

Yeah I know that some clowns are funny and just want to do tricks or plays just for the inside laughing from the public. Cleen the Clown was originally a story that me and a friend created from a sinister clown, with an extraordinary hate from kids, and yeah he's pretty old, if you're intersted in what was his games of death with children is, he give the children a pop with cyanide and then rob them, is really horrible, but was to be a scary story. I agreed with you, that the background need more details, in my opnion when i was drawing, was to be like a "hell" or something from evil. His ear, was to be that more great line in his side, but it's true, doesn't seems like a ear.

Thanks for the awesome review! I'll try to improve on. Thanks!
SpyS.

[Me 'n my Boy]

Looks cool

Dad looks really good but the son looks really disproportioned and could use some work.

ChillyCheese responds:

word

[Time of Immaturity]

Great.

It's just so interesting. The concept of being able to unbutton yourself and wear a human suit is impeccable. People do this all the time but not in the same sense that you have drawn it.

Bullsik responds:

In the context of Gombrowicz and existentialism it works both ways. It's the skin that you have made or it's the skin that others have made to you. The first one is your shield protecting you from the world, and the latter is a cage that the world is putting you into.

[Pretzel Seed Concept]

Well

-I like that you are showing us a nice little drawing of the protagonist in a novel that you are writing. The name description that you are using is perfect for a jester of sorts. I'm quite curious as to all of the things that she will get into in her travels. Are you going to do little drawings like this for chapters or just the cover? It would also be really cool if you could make an animation telling about your novel for additional advertisement.

-The colors of the (raccoon?) are really good. You did a spectacular job of shading and compensating for additional pieces of clothing that she is wearing. There seems to be a triple shade used for the color and it looks nice. Purple, red, and white are interesting colors to use as a combination but a jester should have odd and interesting colors to help with the lulz and sort. Anything to help with the laughter is a great idea. Green trim is more of an earthy color and fits in well with the other colors aforementioned that you used for the clothes.

-The picture is very plain though. There is no background at all other than the grey you plastered the piece on. I understand that this is just a picture showing the character for an upcoming novel but having Pretzel Seed doing something other than sitting would of been more interesting. It's something to think about if you are going to have more character design pictures in the future. Have her playing an instrument or doing something comical in front of a crowd. If anything have a more interesting background color than grey.

-Just some thoughts on your artwork that I thought I should share. It's also a nice change of pace from your 8-bit artwork.

-Review Request Club

Abnorvell responds:

I was very happy to read this review, you basically hit all the nails on the head. This was the first drawing I ever did of the character, consider it "concept art", if you will, so I went with a simple pose excluding a background for the time being.

The choice of colors was something I thought long about, I wanted them to obviously reflect the silliness of a jester, earthly tones for the setting of the story, and darker attributes reflecting the rather dark and mysterious tale.

I have several other pictures of this character and others lined up, not to mention actual scenes with backgrounds. I'm glad you mentioned the part about including an instrument, because she plays the tambourine, which will be included with time. I've had the thought for an introductory animation for the novel, but I won't be getting to that until drawing this and other characters becomes more natural with practice.

Thanks for the great review!