Haggard's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Land of the Walking Plants]

Good

A very nice picture indeed. The concept is nice and I got a bit reminded of that "smart plant" in Fallout 2 that want's to change location. Even though it can't walk on it's own I somehow got reminded of it.

Anyway, as I've said, the picture looks nice. The drawings are pretty good and very detailed and I like how you coloured the plants. Not just boring two colours (green for the stalk, a different colour for the blossom) but very interesting colours indeed.

Too bad the picture looks a bit "blurry" from time to time. I guess this is because you chose to paint it with pencils instead of a different tool. Or maybe it is because of your scanner.

The only thing that really bothers me with this picture is the path we can see in the right bottom. It looks as if it gets wider the more it goes to the right. Maybe that was intentional, but it does look a bit weird. I know, there's supposed to be a perspective in this pic, but I think the bottom line of the path should be a bit "closer" to the upper line.

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Merol responds:

It looks blurry because of the pencils? or because of my scanner? maybe both.
About the path, you mean the last part of the path? If you mean about the part that look like this: ________/ then yeah, it was intentional, if you look closer you can see that the plants get fired out at the end of the path.

If you are not talking about that, then it wasn't intentional, my bad.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!

[Won't You Be My Neighbor]

Good picture, but the mask should go

The details you put into this work can only be clearly visible when this picture is viewed in full size. The "thumbnail view" makes the character kind of look like a little doll, only in full size it is visible that it is a real peron tied to... well, something.

Just as XwaynecoltX I think the mask should go. It would give the picture a better atmosphere. Or if you want to keep the mask maybe it should reflect the emotions of the person who wears it, ie not a smiling mouth but a mouth that screams.

I think this would emphazise the dark and quite painfuly atmosphere of the picture.

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[Ghost]

Good

A pretty good drawing in my opinion. It just takes some time to notice all the details you actually put into this drawing. At first there's mostly the green colour visible which kind of buries the details.

Only if you look at the picture more carefully you can see the wrinkles on the clothing.
Maybe if the picture was a bit bigger it would be more easy to notice all those details.

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[SHW-29 Graveyard]

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The scene we can see in this picture contradicts the bright and joyful lights in the background. At first I didn't like that too much, but it kind of grew on me the longer I looked at this picture.

It's as if you tried to fool around with the expectations of the ones that look at your work. One might think: "Oh, a brightly coloured background, this must be a picture with a happy atmosphere!"
But instead you confront them with a quite disturbing scene with bodies laying around.
Ok, they might only be robots but this only gets clear if you take a second look at the pic. On the first glance it might as well be a real human in some fancy space suite.

I agree with Coop, though. The lines need some more work, they just look too sketchy right now.

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[Rorschach]

Good, but needs some work on the setting

The drawing itself is pretty nice, but I think you have to work on the setting a bit more. I haven't seen Watchmen (shame on me), but what I saw in the trailers is that the world seems to be pretty dark.

But even if I never heard a thing about Watchmen I would think the character in this picture was pretty mysterious and somewhat sinister. And for such a character the surroundings are too bright for my liking.

The street lamp we can see in the background should be placed above Rorschach's head and shine a dim light on him. The surroundings and backgrounds should only be some shades and not so bright red as they are now.

But I'm nitpicking here, the character itself looks very good and he creates a very good atmosphere. I also like you added some things to this pic like the trashcan and the lamp in the background. This gives the picture a special touch and it looks so much better than if you just added a brick wall as a background.

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[Japanese Wolf]

Amaterasu?

Haha, I've been playing a lot "Okami" lately so I instantly thought this was Amaterasu on this picture. ^^

Anyway, I don't like this wolf as much as I liked the tribal dragon. I think it's because of the colour and the lightening. The colour is so dark and the lightening is dark as well. So the whole picture looks too dark for me and it almost feels as if I can't see the picture clearly but only shades of it.

So the advice to try and scan the pictures holds true for this submission as well.

However, what I can see looks nice as well. Again I like the "contradiction" in this picture. The forms itself look rather simple, but you used those "simple" forms to create a pretty complex looking picture of a wolf.

You know, if I ever decide to get some tattoos I would ask you to create some pictures for me. Because I think the dragon and the wolf look so awesome it would be a shame NOT to get those tattooed to your body. :D

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MonoFlauta responds:

Haha i will not have tatoos :P also, great game okami :P

Thanks for reviewing :D

[Japanese Dragon]

Looks good

A very nice drawing. I like how you just used some forms (well, tribals) and made it look like a dragon. I don't like most tribals as they mean nothing to me but I really like this dragon.

The only negative thing I can say about this picture is the rather low quality. The lights are just too dark. But I guess this is because you took a picture of your drawing. So the only advice I could give you here is that you should try to scan the drawings to improve the quality.

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[Cleen the Clown]

Mean clown

Too bad the image is so small, so we miss out on some details here, I think.

This clown looks like the only thing he would enjoy is, if all kids suddendly would vanish and he didn't have to bother with those little brats anymore.
If I was a kid and I would look at this clown it would get nightmares.

Maybe you could try to create a more happy looking face paint for this clown while keeping his facial expression intact. That way it would create a great dispute: On the one hand the clown looks like a normal clown with a nice face painting that is meant to make kids laugh, but on the other hand his facial expression would indicate that he's a dangerous person who hates nothing more than being laughed at.

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MCarsten responds:

Yeah, i agree with you, could be better if I put a more bigger size for it.

Yeah, this clown was to be a scary clown for kids, that have a giant hate for all of them, thinking to kill the maximum that he can and for that, I choosed to don't move with his facial expression, I want to show to people that his an evil clown, a dangerouns madman, so I keep his bad face.

Thanks for the nice review!! Thanks ;D

[The New Chav]

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The drawing itself is nice. I think I've seen guys like that on TV (when there was another riot at some football game somewhere in europe) and I think you covered the stupid look most of those rioting goons seem to have quite well.

I like the perspective of this picture. The trainers are huge and look almost comical compared to the rest of the picture. This also gives the picture a nicer look. Without this comical element it would look too "sternly".

However, the quality of the image is quite low. Maybe you should try to redraw the picture on the computer, so you don't have a loss in quality by scanning it.

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[All Mine]

Good

A good picture, I especially like the face with that equipment.

However, I think the arms are a bit too thin, especially compared to the legs.
Okay, legs are a bit thicker than arms normally, but here it looks rather strange.

Also I think the background could use some more work. I think you based the background on the newgrounds logo, but in those brownish colours it doesn't work too well, in my opinion.

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