radiodark's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Voidborn Psyker]

Exquisite.

This is lovely. Your skill with skin tones and anatomy are quite impressive.

<deleted> responds:

thanks :-]

[Little 'topus]

cthulhu fhtagn

Honestly the background is a pixelized eyesore, but I just can't argue with the adorable octopus holding a flag. To improve, I'd eliminate the white space (especially in the corners), and consider extending the canvas a quarter to the right to enhance the composition.

WetPhyseter responds:

It is an eyesore, isn't it? But it's just to fill up the space because this, m'am, is part of a GIANT ANIMAL THING, or at least the 'tapus. But great advice. I'll buy you an ice cream cone.

[The Contagious Smile]

decent but...

This is largely well handled, but the mouth quite honestly is terrifying and the photograph is blurry. Tripods are wonderful things.

Scarifying responds:

Yea I agree. The photo too was very blurry and hard to work from.

[Furniture finish test]

looks fine to me

The solder mark is actually really well placed- so symmetrically it looks intentional. It might bother visiting metalworkers who recognize it as a soldering line, but I think the average viewer would just assume the silver line was a decoration.

Did the copper piping come with the ribbon-wrapped tube effect, or did you add that?

DarkSword responds:

Yeah, the soldermark position is intentionnal, I wanted two separate pieces, rolled in different dirrections to merge in the center. It was also planned that it would completely dissapear when the handle would be electroplated, since the solder material was filed and polished to be flush with the copper (you can't feel it, only see it for now.. )

The ribbon wrap is from me, this tube came in 2 foot diameter roll, so didn't had anything close to a handle shape.. : )

I know it's a bit crude, but I am not equiped with fancy tools, so I came up with a simple but still ok design, that like I said, is very nice to the touch.. I could probably engrave it to add some visual complexity.. : )

[Chikara bricks]

Arm?

The image is largely fine, but unless the subject is an amputee, she needs the rest of her right arm (viewer's left).

OnionsXD responds:

Yeah I'm sorry. I kinda saw that mistake but I just couldn't figure out how to fix it...

[mask]

Collage, you mean?

Do you perhaps mean collage (the integration of multiple two dimensional elements into a single composition) rather than college (higher education institution) ? Otherwise, the face is very nice- put the head on a neck on it and give it some sort of background, and I'd give it a ten.

desktoppirate responds:

lol no, higher education it is. it's on a poster with text etc but i didnt think to upload that...

[THE MCSHARKEST]

blur begone

I agree with the other commenter: the blur is hurting the image. It's also hurting my eyes, as they vainly attempt to focus on the picture fail miserably.
If you're certain you want to keep the blur, I'd recommend localizing it so that some parts are blurred and other parts are in focus, which is a good way of guiding the viewer to around the design. Selectively focused areas will also give viewer's eyes a place to rest, and save an otherwise worthwhile image.

HOLIMOUNT responds:

hehehehe now i fix it thanks for the comment reallyc helpfull

[ugh]

Nicely ethereal

The imagery you have here is powerful, so I can understand the frustration of being unable to put your finger on what's wrong with it.

The things that bother me:
a)The shadow on the left jaw is so severe it presents a jawline at odds with the one below it: I'd recommend eliminating that bit of white that seems to be floating above the left blood stream , or runs some more blood over it.

b) neck looks a bit wide for the head size.

c) I'd add a bit more negative space: as it is the figure is cropped so tightly and symmetrically that it fails to fully exploit the painting's strength, namely its elegant fading-into-the-background-ness.

sucho responds:

thanks, i agree especially with c) this would look much better if it wasn't so forefront and i had it hidden somewhere off to the side and concentrated on just the texture of the painting.

[Mecanical insect - color]

Nice

The piece is very interesting; I don't know enough about the medium to give advice on the texture, but I'd be happy to try to help work out issues with the color. At the moment, it looks very much like some sort of crustacean evolved to survive on a beach somewhere, but I'm not seeing much evidence in favor of it being even a quarter machine. The eyes are creepy, yes, but culturally red eyes indicate "HEY DUDE, I'M EVIL" more than "I'M A MACHINE".

If it were my project I'd consider switching the red to the stoplight green used for electronics, and try to push the entire shell a little more in the blue green direction- I don't know what paints you're using, but if they were acrylic or oil I'd transfer your design as is, then run a very thin blue green glaze over the top just to tone down the sandiness of the color scheme.

DarkSword responds:

Thanks for the excellent review, I'm totally agreeing on eye color, it was already changed! For machine look, it's true that it doesn't look too much like a machine, but I guess it would still fit into the story. I had much trouble designing this, so I guess it's OK for my skill level.. ^_^ i'll do better next time. Thanks for color info, appreciated!

Oh, btw, there is nothing of paint on this, it's a digital picture of the sculture, and then colored and textured in photoshop, just to give approximation of 3D texture on the final 3D model.. : )