Haggard's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Yum!]

Hmm cake!

Very nice 8 bit graphics here.
I like the cherry on top of this cake, it just adds this little extra note.

Of course, the colouring is unusual as well, but everything is possible with dyestuffs these days. In fact, my gf once baked a cake that was pink. XD

Well, as I've said I like this picture.

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EventHorizon responds:

thanks!

[Tall 'n Short Pumpkin Carving]

Neat idea

A neat idea to carve Tall 'n Short in a pumpkin, I guess. Not too much work required here, but on the other hand, the flash that insipired you to do this didn't require too much work as well, heh.

However, the flower bucket in the background should've been moved out of the way before taking this picture. It took me about five minutes to figure out what I was seeing there in the background... ^^

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ZJ responds:

Fart

[Battery Point]

Nice

This is quite a nice picture, even though it has some small flaws here and there.

I like the scenery, it looks very quiet from this point of view, but I expect a big ocean right behind that hill (it's a lighthouse after all) which can be a dangerous thing from time to time.

But I think the lighthouse is a tad bit too small. While I'm no expert on what lighthouses should look like or can look like the ones I saw so far seemed to be a lot bigger than the house you painted here.

Also there are some small dots of blue colour on the roof of the house. I don't think those dots belong there and that's one of the small flaws I was talking about earlier.

But seeing how you did this in 4 and a half hours I'm really impressed with what you came up with. I think if you had some more time to work on this picture you could easily correct those small mistakes.

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Joshsouza responds:

Thanks very much for the review. I just looked at the full-sized painting and just noticed them! Once I get some time, I will paint red over these dots and whatnot so thanks for pointing that out.

[River of Self-Thought]

A fisherman?

Oh, so that's a fisherman? I though it was a dog standing in a shallow river, heh.

Anyway, the picture itself is nice. The surroundings look very realistic, especially the mountain in the background (the sky looks nice as well).

The water doesn't look bad, but I think it could use some more work. I know that it's pretty hard to paint water that looks realistic and I do like what I can see here on this picture. But especially the water in the foreground - where you tried to draw the water "in movement" - it looks a bit unfinished.

Overall, the picutre does look very good, but it does lose a bit of it's quality because you had to take a picture of it in order to upload it here. I really would like to see the "original" of this painting, but I'm afraid this won't be possible. ^^

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Joshsouza responds:

Yeah, I guess you're right... but thanks for the tips and the review!

[Sparta Poster]

Nice picture

This is a pretty good picture, I like your style. It looks very comical, which also fits good to the facial expression your character has.

The background is nice as well, I also like how you "blurred" it a bit so that the focus lies on the character.

However, I think the character should have some facial hairs. It now looks too much like a "baby face" and not like the face of a strong warrior. It doesn't even have to be a full beard, just some stubbles would be enough I think.

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Blounty responds:

Cheers for the review, Too bad i've got worse at drawing.

[VICTORY!]

Nice

It's a pretty good picture. I like the colouring here a lot. The purple on the edges indeed looks a bit strange, but overall the colouring is done very nicely.

I also like the pose of the girl. Indeed it looks like she has won a pretty big price.

What I don't like however is the way the face of the girl is covered with her hair. It would look a lot better imo if her face was visible.

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Merol responds:

THANK YOU SO MUCH MAN!!!!
Yeah, I have only 12 pastel bars, so, I didn't have lot's of choises with the colors.
Yes! She won! She's happy!!
And her face is not covered with her hair, there's actually no face!

THANKS AGAIN!!

[Typho]

Scouted?

Sorry, scribblings like this won't get you scouted. The art portal is for quality drawings, not stuff like what you present here.

I have to agree with SeeD419, this picture looks like if a 4 year old drew this and all this lableing makes the picture even worse. Don't lable the drawings, leave room for interpretations to the viewer.

Also, if you colour your drawings make sure you get an even colouring. The creature in the picture still has some blank spots while other parts of the body are coloured in a dark green (and yet other parts are a lighter green). This does really look very childish.

Then, there are no backgrounds. Just a white canvas. Apart from the mountain tops where the creature is standing on (which too looks very bad) there's not much else to see in the picture.

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ZJ responds:

I regret nothing.

[Beatles Crossing]

Good picture

This picture looks very nice, but when viewed in full size it's a bit too blurry because of all the pixels.
But it looks very impressive when viewed in normal size. I especially like Paul's clothings here. The foldings look very realistic.

I also like the mirror effect in the lower half of the image. It is a nice touch and makes up for the missing zebra crossing.

I think the "The" should be a bit bigger, though. Right now the space between "The" and "Beatles" is a bit too large for my liking.

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up-a-notch responds:

the beatles will be fixed

[Hunt The Fish]

Great

Wow, I like the facial expressions here. Both the hunter and the prey look pretty good and the emotions of both of them are clearly visible to the viewer.

I also like the "underwater feeling" you create here. The background is darker and I think even a bit blurry which creates the effect as if I just put my head below the surface and see this scene in front of my eyes.

The overall quality of the image seems to be a bit low, but I guess it's because you had to scan in this picture, right?

Anyway, this a very great picture!

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EchoRun responds:

Scanning anything to a computer usualy downgraids it unfortunetly - all I can do is muck arround with it on photoshop untill I get it looking like the orriginal. This wasn't too bad, a bit blotchy and grainy but i didn't loose much like i have with others.

Thanks for the review. :)