RedMarlin's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Spirited Away scene study 1 | Little house]

All three of these are fantastic. Very colorful and expressive. You say you struggled but I think you're focusing only on flaws you see as the creator.

Zaccura responds:

Thanks so much! I think you're probably right, but it's hard not to when you're studying such masterful work like Ghibli haha. ;)

[Tab/Corn | #Sixfanarts 4/6]

Very nice! You did a good job showing his personality and I enjoy your rendering style. Good work on the wrinkles in his clothes and the shading on his hands. I wonder if you might be able to give his suit one extra layer of shading. I feel like some of the areas get a little big that it could benefit from it.

Zaccura responds:

I'm so glad ya like it! And thanks so much for the review! :D

[Olangum]

I like this. Simple yet effective. One thing I feel though is that the extra shading on the spider's body makes the background feel a bit too simple in comparison.

Nondull responds:

Yeah that's pretty fair.

[Trance and Acid]

Great piece. Good linework and nice vibrant coloring on the skin. I like how the character takes full advantage of the different textures and effects that can be achieved with a digital medium. Sometimes a kitchen sink approach like this works very well. Unfortunately, I do think that it makes the background look a bit lacklustre in comparison. I would encourage you to try playing around with some effects to help it blend in stylistically.

EHXKOR responds:

Aye, thanks man! I will definitely keep that in mind. I didn’t go too far with the background to be honest, I just set up a radial symmetry ruler, scratched down some lines and used a liquify tool to push them around a little bit to make something that looked interesting.

[Another Dawn- Page 21]

I love the way you paint your backgrounds! And I especially like how you paneled this out, with the last panel serving as the background for the previous. Good effects on the text too - I like the perspective you gave it on the second panel, giving it depth and volume.

Alamus responds:

Hey, thanks for noticing the breakdown of the page! I'm really glad someone got the 2nd panel. The idea of her laughter being hurled at him, like a bombardment, ya know? It's things like that I feel get written out more than visually shown and have it come across to the reader. I'm glad I was able to have that get across.

[Backwoods Spaceport]

I get a great sense of atmosphere from looking at this. I like your style of painting as well.

MacOFlannigan responds:

Thank you! Atmosphere was the main thing I was trying to work on here, so I'm glad to see that it made an impression.

[Luxury Gifts]

You have a very unique art style that I enjoy seeing. Keep up the good work.
On a side note... that face at the end scares me.

DBuck-Eye responds:

What's scary about the face, honey? :)

[Haruka]

The character himself looks fine, but I would take the time to draw your own background as well, even if it's a simple one.

jeniebi responds:

Thank you! Although, I'm trying to make it similar to the one I made in the first place which had a water background like this~

[Somewhere Other Chapter 2-8]

Really good drawing style, and I like the textures you added to the lines and background. The only thing I would change is in the first panel - I read the lower speech bubble as part of the third panel instead. I would suggest moving it up a bit and completely outlining it as well.

cecameron responds:

Thank you so much! I will keep that in mind for future pages.

[clothed Serida]

It looks like you did this in SAI, am I correct? Your linework looks decent, but it's really lumpy - try adding a pressure stabilizer and see if it helps. Body looks pretty good, but her right (our left) arm looks a bit wonky. Use a mirror as reference and look at how your own arm would look in that position. Shading is in the right direction, but you're going a little too much with the whites, plus straight up white doesn't really look good. Try to keep the color of the thing you're tinting and shading.

You're headed in the right direction, keep going.

instantbenz responds:

Really appreciate the feedback! I'm sorta making these things my daily warmup now (a contest a day sort of thing), but what I SHOULD be doing is get some figure drawing done at the start of the day THEN do a piece I'm going to actually release to the public. The lumpy I attribute to me not knowing the light source totally before doing contours which is something I'm learning to do in the right order so you're totally right there. I think the right arm would have been more convincing had I formed the hand and wrist better. I feel green when it comes to highlights sometimes, it's embarrassing ha! Something to hone for sure. In regard to the tinting I've understood the warm and cold/highlight and shadow relationship thing and I do a selection of my highlights and do a mask same with my shadows. The thing I'm questioning is the blend mode of those for the best effect. I suppose always revert to the whole subtlety thing.

Anyway thanks again! You're awesome for taking some time out and I'm getting better for it!