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[Chessboard #1]

Interesting

Well, the chessboard is a little bit stretched which doesn't look that good in my opinion. But maybe it's so streched because it travels through space and time? Because that's what the background reminds me of. Some kind of Wormhole the chessboard travels through.

But there's a thin line on the front of the chessboard that disturbs me a little. It doesn't really belong there as the edge of the board is a little beneath it. I suggest removing this line as it looks pretty weird.

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XwaynecoltX responds:

Yeah its stretched I kinda wanted it that way. Thanks for the review

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[Celest's Got a Sword]

Good picture

A great picture. The character displayed looks quite realistic, even though I wonder how he can handle such a hughe sword, heh.

But there are some issues with this image. Most of all the left foot looks just too two dimensional. Yeah, it's seen directly from the front but a few more lines at the top of the shoe could add some more depth so that the foot doesn't look so much like a stump as it does now.

Also the left wrist seems to be nonexistant. You should try to work that out a bit more, even though this might be quite a hughe task. A little trick may be a wristband so that it is clear where his wrist is supposed to be.

Also, there is a little white spot visible on the right side of the characters neck which disturbs the image a little bit. I don't think it was supposed to be there, at least it looks rather strange.

You may have noticed that I was nitpicking in my review, but this is only that I can't find anything else wrong with this picture. :D

I really like the propotions of the character (as I've said above, he looks very realistic) and his facial expression looks good as well. He looks more like "that guy next door" than like the typical hero, and that's what I especially like about this picture.

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CelestOrion responds:

Thanks for the review!

I'll try to work on the foot sometime and get some more depth added in there.

Hmm, I never noticed that until now. I think a wristband would work out best.

That white spot was a hair-band for the ponytail, if you look closer at the back regions. You should be able to spot more hair.

I'm glad you liked the image. Everyone in this game I'm working on has that certain look to them, so you'd love the results if everyone posted their own pics of their works.

[Barrett .50 Cal]

Very good

I'm not an expert when it comes to weapons (read: I don't know anything about them), but this looks very realistic. Especially when viewed in Full Size one can see how many details you actually put in there. In the smaller size all those details are lost and the weapon looks quite bland.
So my tip: View this in full size, folks!

My most favorite detail is the shadow from the scope. Most weapons I've seen so far in the art portal don't have any shadows or light reflections at all, so this little detail really lets your work stand out from the rest.

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fallensoul289 responds:

Thanks I do try to work hard and when I motivate myself enough I can stand out from the rest

[Pancake]

Sterile

I just had some pancakes last week and I have to agree with Fro. This one liiks too sterile. A "real" pancake is not equally roasted (is this the right word to use here?), it has some darker spots on the one side while the other is brighter. Also it isn't equally thick on all spots.
So, at first I thought this was some kind of tray with melted butter on it.

Speaking of the butter and the syrup: They look pretty good. It looks as if the butter is just about to melt.
But the syrup looks a bit "unrealistic" how it runs over the cake. Well, I don't have that much experience with syrup on pancakes, but especially at the edge, where it runs over it doesn't look too good.

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chesster415 responds:

Yeah, I usually fry pancakes, and end up with a darker ring around where the burner is. They also don't turn out perfectly round. But I can generally make my pancakes equally thick all around. And only one side has bubbles, if you do it right. I hadn't made pancakes in a while, and was going from memory. My syrup always runs off the side of my pancakes. Maybe I don't pour it well enough, or maybe I need to make thicker syrup, (but I like it thin). But I can see how the run off, is a bit abnormal especially for such a smooth pancake. Thanks, for reviewing.

[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.

[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.