Haggard's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[CoolJaw Comic Preview]

Nice

Very sketchy, but yet very effective drawing style. It fits the mood this picture sets. Just as if the zombie like character is in a "killing mode", where he blends out everything else and just sees his enemies he has to kill.

Also I think this is a good advertisement for your comic. At least I am interested in reading it rather sooner than later. ^^

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Celx-Requin responds:

Cool I hope you do when it comes out!

['08 Dodge Challenger]

Good pic with some minor flaws

The car looks really nice and the 3D is done very good as well. I like the reflections on the car, they look very realistic (with one exception, see below). I also like the street, looks realistic as well.

You should have worked more on the background, though. Even though there are some pillars it still looks bland with the clear blue sky. Some clouds would look good, I think.

Also the reflection on the side of the car is too strong and the "border" of the reflection is too hard as well. It just ends on a straight line, which looks pretty bad, imo.

So, apart from some minor flaws this picture is very good.

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Kinsei responds:

I seem to keep taking damage on the background. I altered it up and posted a rendition in my Art Thread on the Art Forum. I also took the reflectivity down a notch and lowered the camera angle (kudos to Peter for that one.)
give the fixes a look if you get time.
I hope they look a little better

[Luigi]

Very nice.

Very nice sketch. This picture has a very dark atmosphere, even though you only drew the character and no backgrounds (well, it's a sketch, it actually would look weird with a background). But the way Luigi wears his head, the coat... it almost looks as if Luigi played a part in the movie "Blade Runner", heh.

Great job!

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Kinsei responds:

I guess my sketching and 2D are a lot stronger than I thought. Sadly, I was always paired up with such better artist at my college, I always felt my stuff was kind of crappy.
lol nice way to work in blade runner in to there.

[Memories of Better Times]

Sweet memories?

Not for me. Well, I have some sweet memories, but Pokemon isn't one of them. By the time the whole pokemon fad came to my country I was in an age where I felt "too old for this kids' stuff" (you guessed right, I was still pretty young, but tried to act mature ;) ) so I never really got into pokemon.

Anyway, the drawing looks very nice and quite realistic. I was almost tempted to take the ball and throw it. ^^

The light effects on the object are drawn very good and also the shadow looks very realistic. There's a tiny spot just right of the "white light dot" where the red colour crosses the outlines, you may want to fix that.

Also, why such a big canvas for one small object? Maybe you should edit the picture a bit next time so we don't have to stare at a white canvas so much. :P

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Kinsei responds:

Thanks for the Review Haggard.
in all Honesty, this was piece was less about the pokeball and more of the memories it instills. and this isn't just for the old pokemon fans out there, but that pokeball could have been anything to anyone. A mushroom to the Mario fan, a ring to the Sonic fan, even a sword to the Zelda fan.
I just wanted to get people to stop for a moment in the fast paced world of the internet and have them think, even just for a second, of times long past.

As for the extra blank canvas, that too plays a strong roll in the piece. With that much left blank I wanted to have a sense of loneliness in the picture. Like things we collected long ago, but now they set all alone, some place, somewhere.

[Copper Dragon]

Aamzing

Too bad I can't see the original of this picture with my own eyes as I think this is an amazing drawing.

I especially like the water here. It looks very realistic, just as if I would get wet hands if I touched the picture.
I also like how the moonlight reflects on the surface, again this looks very realistic and it creates a great atmosphere for this picture.

The background on the right hand side seems to be a little bit too dark, especially when we see the contrast to the left side, which is painted in very bright colours.

It's also a pity that the outlines of the dragon seem to be a bit blurry, but I guess that's because it was scanned.

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EchoRun responds:

Well, photographed with a camera not up to the job... but same effect in the end. *shrugs*

The contrast between the lighter left side and the darker right is not as obvious on the original - the camera didn't pick up the fine detail on the right at all and exaggerated the shimmer on the water too much. Photoshop can only do so much I am afraid. :(

Also, I was hoping with how the colourful dragon dominated the right side, it would help balance out the left side too.

Thanks for the review. :)

[Mech Repair Bay]

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Again a very nice pic and not so "static" like the corridor one because of the sparcs (which look pretty nice in my opinion ;) ).

Again the lightening is done very well in this picture, it looks very realistic. The only problem is that it looks as if the light bulbs aren't switched on, they are so dark. So where's the light coming from then? ^^

Anyway, I think there should be some people visible in this picture. It's a repair bay after all and there should be some people running around, doing various things.

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Kinsei responds:

thanks for the reviews guys.
like I said below I have done better sparks on a newer one, I'll get it up soon, probably in my art thread
as for the light bulbs, I can try to add a glow to them to make it look like they are on, lets jut hope it works. I tried a flare and a couple other effects but it looked obnoxious and really destroyed the piece.

And for the people thing, I sort of agree and I sort of don't
people would give it a more realistic, "lived in" feel, but I also figured that in a futuristic shop, people may not be needed in the repair bay.
yeah robots will begin to fix there own kind, then build there own kind, and then there brothers will slowly take over the world and crush us under there metal human like feet!
creepy huh? :P

[Space Ship Corridor]

Basic, but still nice

Yeah, it's pretty basic, but it still looks nice. I like the lightening in this picture. I think the shadows give this picture a kind of creepy look. At least I could imagine nicer places than this corridor.

Also the perspective works very well, it really looks as if I was standing there looking down the corridor.

But I think a few more details would have been nice, maybe another door in one of the side walls, or a person walking down (or up) the corridor.

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Kinsei responds:

When I was building this I had a very short amount of time to complete it in, so although I thought of doing a more intricate hall way with more doors off to the side, time would not allow. It has crossed my mind to go back and over hall it, but I think the simplicity helps this piece.
I really wanted a creepy feel for this, I wanted people to think "you know, I think I'll go around" and although I was off from being that creepy, I still like to think I at least made them think of it for just a second.

As for walking threw I had a friend of mine tell me that I should play with my camera as it moves threw the hall way in the animation.... I just might do that.

[Cyber Ship]

Nice

This model looks nice as well, but yeah, it needs more details. ^^

Also, the wings look a bit weird, but maybe that's because of the white and blue colours while the rest of the ship is in green and darker colours. Now it seems as if the wings don't really belong to the ship, so I suggest that you try to either colour the ship in brighter or the wings in darker colours. I think the latter would look better.

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Kinsei responds:

Detail seems to be what everyone wants, so I'll get to it, I have some free time now so maybe I can return to a few older projects that have been pushed to the back burner lately.

[Harrison MkII]

Needs some colours

The 3D model looks very nice and you put a lot of details in there. For example the joints look pretty good. But this picture is missing some colours which would add even more details to the picture. Also, a light source would be nice as well.
There are some shadows in it already, but some parts that are brighter than the other parts would give this model an even more realistic look, I think.

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[Hyper warp]

Good

I like the colours in this picture. They create a nice atmosphere, because the bright colours coming from the "back hole" in the center build a nice contrast to the mostly dark colours in the rest of the picture. The whirling effect makes it also look pretty futuristic which does fit pretty well to the title.

However, the text in the picture doesn't really fit there. It kind of destroys the nice atmosphere you created with the nice colours.

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mikkim responds:

Thanks for not dissing the bullet, the main focus of the image. And also, thanks for the commentary about the words being distracting. Thanks.