Haggard's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Goomba's Last Moments]

Poor goomba...

This is a very sad and frightening looking goomba. I guess Mario is about to take just another life and bring misery over just another goomba family.

The colours in this picture are very nice, all of them fit together nicely.

But there seems to be something wrong with the floor. I think the lines should have been a little "flater", because right now it looks a bit like a wall, not like a floor.
But maybe that's just me and there's something wrong with my eyes. -.-

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chesster415 responds:

Frightening? The Goomba wasn't meant to look scary. It's a look at the flip side of the the protagonist/antagonist perspective. Not everything is as black and white as video game programmers would have you believe. Now that you mention it though the perspective of the floor probably should be a bit less orthographic. Thanks for your review.

[Jesbus MC8]

Good

The face looks very good. A lot of details are presented here. Too bad the rest of the picture can't compete with the face.

The gun for example looks very bland, which lets the picture down. Some more lines on the cylinder would already make this so much better. I suggest you take a look at various revolvers to see what I mean.

Also, a very large part of the canvas is plain white, which never looks too good. Some background (maybe some hills or some trees) would get rid of this problem.

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[madness combat 9]

Nice sketch again

The characters are again presented with a pretty good amount of details, especially the one on the right side looks very good.

Too bad you seem to never take the time to colour your pictures. I think this would make them even better if coloured right.

Also, backgrounds would also help your pictures. They would add even more details and give the users something more to look at.

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[Jesbus watching over hank]

Needs some colours

The sketch is very good. The characters are drawn in quite a good way. Especially Hank looks very good here.

Again, there are some colours missing, they would give the picture more details and would it also make more appealing to the eye.

The gun Jesus is holding needs some more work, though. It looks very bland right now and the propotions doesn't seem to fit too well.
Some more details, like some scratches or a brand name would definitely look better.

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[Kinetic]

Very nice

I didn't even notice the ying and yang in the eyes before I read your comments. Now that I see it, the picture is even better than before. ^^

The eye looks very realistic, but the eyelashes are a bit too thick. Also there could be a tad bit more red around the eyeball.
On the fingers, there are some "lines" missing. If you look at your fingers , you'll notice some "lines" on every phalanx, those are missing in the picture.

Of course, I'm nitpicking here, but that's just because I can't find anything else that is wrong with this picture. In fact, it's one of the best pictures I have seen in the art portal yet. ^^

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KrevZabijak responds:

I wanted the eye to echo some sort of inhuman quality, like the iris(es) and pupil(s). The sclera smudging combined with the blank space is where that came into play.
I went crazy with the eyelashes as I said below. I started highlighting, then adding more dark lashes.. then highlighted some more.. then added... then looked and kind of laughed. That's when I knew I was done with the lashes. xD
Ridges on the nails? Hee. :3 I was testing a focus-in-center blur-in-outside thing. Can't win 'em all, or at least I think that's what I was going for.

Merci for your review, and thank you for the details- I always keep everyone's reviews in my head for future pieces.

[Capture the Moment]

Nice

I really like the lightening in this picture. The only source of light seems to be the flash of the camera here, which creates an interesting effect.

I also like the little details like the newspapers (but I can't make out the second headline... the first one reads "Hurricane leaves family missing").

It's also nice that the camera brand is "FroNick" (I wouldn't have noticed it if Coop hadn't mentioned it in his review).

Maybe the grain of the table is a little bit too parallel, at first I thought there was something wrong with the picture. A few more curved lines would look better here, I think.

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Fro responds:

Thanks

[Chaotic Space]

Good

Just like Coop I'm tempted to just write "Wow" in my review. But that could be considered abusive, right?

At first I thought that this picture looks afwully cold and that this couldn't be anywhere on earth, as I don't know of any place where it could ever be that cold.
Then a second thought struck my mind: Maybe this is underwater? Deep down in a sea (or an ocean). The colours fit very good to an underwater theme.
And reading your author's comment you where also tempted for a more "deep sea sort of name".

Well, looking at this picture I certainly feel as if I was deep down in an ocean. Maybe not twenty thousand leagues under the sea, but pretty close to 20.000. :D

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EchoRun responds:

Thank you.

I suppose when look at some of the phenomena in deep space, they can look surprisingly similar to some phenomena underwater too.

[TriFlame]

Happy new year!

Well, it's still some time until the new year, but as you said this picture looks like a big firework is going on and I'm connecting fireworks and new year in my mind.

I like that the fireworks only happen in the center of the page. Maybe there's a little too much black on the canvas, but if there was too much stuff going on in the background the picture could very easily look overloaded with effects.

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EchoRun responds:

Yes, the trouble with some fractals is how easily some parts could get lost in a busy background, particularly wispy bits like in this image. So a black background is just so much easier and good for showing off the fractal.

Thanks for the review. :)

[Dark Entry]

Nice one

Never knew a simple drawing of a simple door could look so nice. The picture has a very creepy atmosphere. I think it's because you used mostly colours that aren't very bright, except for some white spots on the wall.
Also it seems as if the door would spring open every second and some mean character would walk in and start shooting at me.

Maybe some cobwebs on the walls would intensify the creepy atmosphere, but I think I like Insanimations idea of cracks in the wall even better.

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Fro responds:

I think water damage would make a nice creepy atmosphere.

[Owen Morrison]

Good sketch

This is a pretty good sketch. The hair looks very good and the propotions of the face are very realistc. Only the nostrils are a bit too small. Also I think the eye should be visible, but where it would appear only skin can be seen. However, the hair doesn't cover the entire area where the eye should be.

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Fro responds:

Yeah, stuff