Luwano's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Flood the portal friday 4]

Very blurry

I'm not quite sure what I am looking at. I think it's some kind of mountain top with an ice giant sitting on it, but correct me if I'm wrong. It is really very blurry, only the sign that holds the flood thumbnail and the clouds in the sky are not.

The clouds are done very well of course.

Overall it's an interesting drawing, but it could use some definition.

Zanroth responds:

Good guess!
The definition... I would've loved to, but I had to rush this. I also misjudged the resolution quite a bit.
I just wanted to participate, but didn't have the time to put any real effort into it :/

[Friday Flood]

Santa's a racist?

Very... erm... "unique" version of Santa.

Too many swatikas and curse words for my taste, but who am I to be intolerant?

Looks really funny and I like how you incorporated the thumbnail. Just the bricks in the right upper part are worked out less than the others.

And thanks for supporting our friday flood, of course.

[Faded From The Winter]

That worked out....

I instantly thought about these black and white comics before I read your comment, so your attempt really worked out.

Only thing that bothers me is how thin her lower legs get, even comsidering the perspective.

You did a great job handling perspective and even some kind of depth with no shading and highlighting at hand.

Aigis responds:

Thank you.

[Friday Avalanche]

Nice idea

It's an interesting idea, but I think you could have made more out of this. The snow for example is plain white, which isn't very convincing. You could have added some ups and downs, some little lumps of snow here and there to make it look like real snow.

Also the hand and the foot are pretty small compared to the persons face.

It's a funny idea, but one needs a lot of fantasy to really see the avalanche here. Without the title I would have thought it's simply an unfinished picture.

Too bad, because the eyes, hand and foot themselves look very promising.

[Game Over]

Suggestions to make it look better

Cut off a little of the right and left of the canvas, to reduce the blank space around the title.

Check your spelling. "has fallen victim to a bloodthirsty cannibal tribe".

Probably change or add to the title. "Horror" is too general and a little generic. Maybe "Wild Horror" or even something completely different.

What programs do you use to model the women? And you seem to do the rest in Photoshop, so I recommend: Don't use the grass brush, it's a stencil rather than something drawn by you. People see the grass brush and tend to think you are a noob. But it seems you are not.

Keep it up!

[Water Lady]

Nice idea

The anatomy is a little off, but apart from that it looks quite good.

I'm probably the only one who likes the more abrupt transition from body to water. I just thought it's an interesting variation.

The light blue sweep on the left is a nice addition. I'm not exactly sure why it is there, but it looks like something is going on. Some kind of movement or even magic.

Her face is nicely done, it reminds me of those "Bratz" dolls. But it clashes with the style of the body, but that could also just be me....

Good job!

[Deep sea lurker]

Grundel-fish

In addition to what has been said before, I think the bubbles in the background are not very convincing. They need at least a little depth.

Apart from that I like the beast. Especially the emptiness in its eyes. Also the mouth makes me think about "the Grundel" from the 80's Ghostbusters show.

Nice job!

[It's The Flood!!! 3]

Om nom nom

I never liked that show Cat-Dog, so I highly appreciate this.

It's really good, especially considering that you did it in about 40 mins. (10 minutes before flood + 30 minutes late, right?)

I think the face you gave the shark is pretty funny, I mean he's eating part of his own body and is still smiling like a stupid chibi. ^^

Good one!

[Fished]

What can I say?

It's simply great.

I can't give much of a useful review here, it's just that I like everthing about this pic.

Especially: the splashing water where the monster comes out of the water, the glowing eyes, the trail the ship leaves behind and the texture of the water.

Occluded responds:

Aw thanks man. I got a lot of good feedback on it before I submitted. So a lot of outside eyes helped me especially with the water. Which took as much time as everything else put together.

[Water spirit]

Not bad so far

I think it's a good basic concept and there is a lot of energy and dynamic in that water spirit.

So far the style of the background and the water spirit seem to clash. The white lines of the water look almost "vector-like" while the trees look "painting-like".

I would really like to see this finished someday and a different background added.