Kinsei's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Ghost Of Death]

...Meh...

Telling people "No Bad Comments" is just asking for "Bad comments"

As a viewer it isn't my job to illustrate your killer for you. As an artist, I wouldn't want to. Why should anyone put effort in to viewing your work when you don't put effort in to creating it.

I expect an response of "I do put effort in to my work," or "I tried really hard." well my response to that is you didn't put/try enough.

[The Bloody Ghost]

Better Than The Last One I Reviewed

But that still isn't much. You still lack any sort of grasp of anatomy or the basics of art.
Look up some tutorials, buy some art books, or attend some art classes, and then study. At this rate you'll just fall in to the endless abyss of crap artist.

[First art]

Crap

And that's putting it nicely.

you scribble around in Ms Paint for a few minuets and expect us to adore it? Hell no.
How about you actually go out and attempt to actually create something worth while. Actually practice some art.

There is no form, there is no design, there is nothing but scribble.

good day sir.....

[Harold the Cuttlefish]

Over All Good...

It has some issues though. But as a whole I think I can enjoy it.

One of the things bothering me is the snow. The snow doesn't feel right. It seems like it was just dabbed on there and has no movement. Its a little awkward.
Another thing is the main parts of the composition is too much in the center. You have the characters, and the background mountain seemingly in the center of the composition. I think since you had the moon over in the left , you should have pushed the mountain in to the right to balance it out.

As for some likes, I enjoy the subtle shadows and lighting. I would think with all the snow about that there would be a ton of bounce light. That would make few shadows, and what ones that were made would be very few.
I think your background sky makes a good solid transition from dark to light. With very little separating the sky from the background gives this a very massive feel.
I think your over all simple background is effective for the piece. even the mountain doesn't draw much attention away from the main focus of the piece.

Very nice.

[Slip and Slide]

I'm Liking This

Well to get matters out of the way, the one thing I really am having issue with is the size. Its kind of small and I would have liked to see this on a much larger scale.

The overall feel from this is pretty awesome over all. I like how it has a hand brushed feel. Or maybe that feel is like chalk on pavement. Either way it was excellently done and I would love to know what method you used to achieve it. The effect is much more noticeable in the wave and in the highlight of the wave, but it is very consistent over all.
Lighting is nicely rendered as well. You can really feel the depth of the face.
You have also done a pretty good job with the over all balance and composition. The upper part of the wave evens out what would be normally a heavy right side.

The background is something I thought I wouldn't like at first but it very rapidly grew on me. It being a subtle change and not some glow effect or gradient is a major plus.

You got a solid piece here. Nice job

[River Goblin]

o.O.....

I have to admit, I love this fantasy stuff you do.

I'd love to see you do a whole series of just various monsters.

Thanks for inspiring me to get back to work on my D&D campaign I have a Bat Troll to build :3.... long story....

[Jules]

Dude, Really?!?!

Damn..... Man, you do tqo things to me.
1) Make me feel like a shitty artist.....
2) Make me want to get better...

Awesome work. It has a painted feel. did you do this digitally or with actual paints?

gsimpson responds:

this is a digital study for the actual painting -- its quicker to try out a color palette that way.

[ulra doom]

Improvements?Improvements?Improvements?Improvement

um no....
even if there are improvements we still can't see them because of the size and low quality photo.
even the high resolution doesn't help any bit.
Go practice, Get a scanner or learn how to document your work properly, and then maybe you'll have a snowballs chance in hell.

promat responds:

ah shut up i dont have a printer to do that

[Earthlingz]

I'm Back On The Horse Baby!

Look at my horse its a really awesome horse...
Oh wait.... wrong piece.....

Cool, moving on...

One of the firs things I want to cover is one of the weakest things in the entire piece. The star field. I'm just really not feeling it. Even for some cheesy b-movie poster, I think you could have got a little further on it. I have seen some really awesome spacescapes out there and I think you could have used one to make not only a really cool star field but also enhance the earth in the background.

The over all composition I am rather pleased about. I think even when you start to break the box with the aliens in the bottom of the piece I think it works rather well with what you are trying to achieve with those classic posters.

The line art is ok, it is alittle dull and lacking some line weight. I'm having a similar issue myself lately so I know how frustrating it can be to think that you have what you need only to find that you don't. The coloring I'm sort of ok with but the shading I am not. You used a lot of gradients with this. IN some places you went ahead and placed a secondary highlights to emphasize the shininess. I think you should have ditched the gradients and went with the strong highlights and shading, I think it would have been much more effective.

One thing that keeps catching my eye is that in some places it seems like you have a grain filter on some things. like the ball on top of the flag and the red around the title. I think this would have worked if you had made the grain much stronger concerning the highlights. You could have given it a really cheesy glitter effect which I think would have reinforced the effect of your entire poster.

I think you have a good start and some cool stuff to work with here. Keep it up.

Luwano responds:

Dude what an awesome horse you got there.... wow...

Erm... ya about your review:

Good point with the star field, I knew that it was not worked out pretty well, but I did not realize how it kinda clashes with my earth. I saw that the "style" of the planet and the space background clashes with the rest in the foreground by the way. :P

In fact, the idea of breaking the box was directly taken from some original movie posters. And I'm glad that you like the composition.

About the lines, this was my first finished work with Inkscape and I didn't know anything about line weight to be honest (even now I don't know a lot about it either).

The shading.... yes ouch.... I used many gradients. I promise to refrain from them in the future. I only shaded manually on the clothes of the alien (a little) and most of the white parts of the suit. Also the "shiny" parts on the visor and on top of the flag pole.

I actually used a grain filter on the finished pic, but i did not set it strong enough. It's also noticable on the the helmet visor in full view.

In addition to your review, the perspective on the chest piece is off.

Thank you very much for your review!

And hey, whose horse is that over there? It looks kinda awesome....

[Friday Flood]

Awesome

Per Usual.
I really need you to do a line art tutorial one day.

Fifty-50 responds:

I will. When I learn how to. :P