Luwano's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Friday Flood #3!]

I could list all the things I like about this....

....like the colours, the highlighting, the shading, the pose, the facial expression or the background. But that would go to far, it looks simply great.

The only thing that bothers me, is that the floor is on a different angle than the water spot beneath the creature. At least judging from the ring of waves.

TurkeyOnAStick responds:

Yeah it is! :( The ring of waves was a bother to make, and I think it disrupts thepicture more than it adds to it.

[Kingfisher]

Style

I repeat myself, but you manage to give your pics a great style everytime. This for exapmle could be used for some kind of advertising campaign instantly, because it has a great recognition value.

Also when I saw this piece I instantly thought about Zeno's arrow paradox "the flying arrow is motionless."

Only downturns seem to be the tailfeathers and the background as already mentioned.

J-qb responds:

Thanks, I always try to put some style aspects in my drawings, so its good to know it works. Because water is such a fluent ever moving thing (heraclites) I wanted to capture that for this flood thing. I am quite glad with how that turned out myself too.

[Night Dip - Flood the Portal 3]

Yet again

I instantly remember your pic for the first flood. Again it has those "wild" and sketches lines versus a calm pic with calm colours.

Also I like how the background fades to a black emptiness.

[Mulla the Fisherman]

Interesting

I really like the contrasts you included here. Black and white colour, the dynamic in the water and the moon vs the calmness in his pose, the strict pattern in the background vs the curvy and bendy lines in the front, big head and small turban. I guess I missed some more details, but that's basically what I love about this picture and what makes it worth looking at more than once.

[Beany bean bean bean]

Hooray the first...

... and probably only fart joke in this months flood!

The monster and especially the facial expression look hilarious. A farting, see-through bean monster is a very.... wierd, but nevertheless funny idea.

I can't really critique it, apart from the beans and sauce, that are "farted out". They look way less detailed than the rest of the beast.

I like the background, it makes the whole pic seem like the introduction of a new super hero.

[Friday Flood baked bean]

That's hilarious ^^

It's really funny. I'm a fan of details and this one holds many funny things for me.

The little beans peeking out of the can and one sitting on the toilet made me really laugh. It would be great if the pic was just a little bigger so one could see them in more details, but still they are great.

Those popped out eyes on the can look cool, too.

The only real problem is, what has been said already. The mixture of softness here and sharpness there can be quite confusing. Good thind this is a crazy pic, so it's not a serious issue in that case.

And I must agree, a background would have been a good idea. But not too much, because there's pretty much going on in this pic already. ^^

It kinda reminds me of one of those matryoshka puppets. You know? Those female russian puppets which you open and find another, smaller one inside and then another and another... only that this a bean with a bean can on it and a bean on that. :P

ZaneZansorrow responds:

Thank you :3, I still gotta remember to save a bigger size ;rq

Hmmm, I still must remember to put up a better direction between sharpness and softness.

[I DONT WHANT YOUR BEANS]

Carved in stone style

It looks like a crazy graffiti with parts of it carved into the stone and parts drawn on it.

I love the dynamic of the flying beans and the plate. You gave the biggest, closest bean in particular a perfect angle to make it look like it's about to pop out of the pic any moment. You drew the beans pretty good anyway.

The face however looks too hard and sharp-edged to me. The hair and ear both seem fine though.

The hand may be a little too big, even for the desired angle, but it looks good apart from that.

The body doesn't look good to me. On the boys' left shoulder there's sharp edge and the rest isn't detailed. It looks as if he does not wear a shirt, but if you would have added some sleeves and some kind of "neckline", the rest would look like a loose shirt. On the other hand, the shading (armpit, neck, etc.) looks good.

But yet again, you used another cool and unique style for it. I don't know how to name it, because monchrome is not a sufficient description. But it definitely looks interesting to me.

J-qb responds:

thanks for the review!

[Cat Collection]

Meow

Nice scary, crazy, bloodthirsty cat. Good job!