Luwano's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Catification]

Fantastic work! I love how the cats' heads and bodies just emphasize the sharpness from the claws and teeth. Goes perfectly with the slit pupils too. Awesome colors.

ThePsychoSheep responds:

Thanks :D

[Overgrowth Collection]

The designs are fantastic again. Would be amazing to see the same creatures without the overgrowth, all clean and stuff. Love every pixel.

Off to twitter! ;)

[Mirror's Edge]

Oh wow the perspective is incredibly well implemented. Kinda makes you feel unsafe for a second looking down there. And I love the colors of the building. Perfect.

[Dashkin - The Point of No Return]

Like his hand touching the portal, you probably noticed how your sudden activity on Newgrounds created some waves. I hope this is only the first impulse and there is more from Chluaid to come.

I like the balance you created. It's a still image but you managed to convey movement. The sketchy, wild lines make for a great contrast to the calm pose. Wind waving through his fur, emphasized by the background colors. In short, you managed to draw so much with so little. I love it.

The warped reflection looks really convincing, this and the pose of his feet, just slightly, carefully taking a step are definitely my favourite parts.

Just the sketchy lines "crossing" the hand or... confusing the hand is a tad little bit off for my taste, but it's really minor complaint in comparison.

Looking forward to more!

[Depressed Monkey (T-Shirt design)]

Despite the splendid, design of the monkey, I really wanna compliment on the background. It' very subtle, very unobstrusive. All the more pushing the monkey in the foreground. Well done.

Kkylimos responds:

Thank you very much my friend! I had to come up with a bg design that would fit in a t-shirt print. I tested a few ideas but i do believe this one was the best looking one and , as you said , it compliments the character. Cheers!

[Founders of Clock Crew Assembled]

Wow! Great job. I love the blue lights on the clocks, they look especially impressive on RaspberryClock. Awesome StrawberryClock Mech overall, I love the many details you added.

What do you mean with the wallpaper? Same elements, just a different layout?

Happy Clock Day!!!!B!

ScepterDPinoy responds:

I just used that wallpaper for my desktop to celebrate Clock Day 2015. I cannot tag this wallpaper since tagging both submission for Clock Day is against the rules.

[Valalt]

Awesome concept, great composition, impressive execution and above all, wonderful colors. There isn't much to critique here. My only nitpicky issue is how her ear doesn't have an edge on the right side.

I love the facial expression, it kinda rounds off the whole image. The brushes you used are very interesting and work really well, especially for the hair.

Great work!

TaraGraphika responds:

Thank you, though, by your standards (your entry) You seem to emphasize detail on texture. Which surprises me that you don't criticize my lack of texture rendering. I can't argue about the ear, but surely, your attention to detailed on texture, does not reflect upon my artwork.

Cause dude, when I looked at your entry, yours are truly better. Thank you again for the PM and review, helps a lot. Encouragement is always welcomed:)

[First Boot]

I love the level of detail you used while still keeping it "rough", kinda ... "alive". Sorry I don't know how to express it any better. My fave is probably the USB plug. Overall I am a huge fan of the robots backhead. It's obvious they are mechanical parts, but they could as well be organic if you squint at them for a second or two. The perspective works really really well. I'd almost like to peek around the robot to see what the face looks like. The background is spectacularly interesting without taking attention away from the girl and the robot, nice job on that! My only two little complaints are the head of the girl which seems a bit huge and like Cairos said, the floor around her. While I didn't consider spare parts when I first saw it, he is of course right about it. My initial thought however was some sort of scattered cords leading from the keyboards and so on to the robot. I know it is there, but it's too thin, orderly and not very prominent.

Nevertheless, I think you came up with a cool concept and did a splendid job drawing it. The title is a good addition too.

Great work!

Havegum responds:

Thanks man!
There's definitely some conceptual and compositional issues to be resolved. Like maybe she doesn't need a wall of servers back in the hallway and it would be more sensible to have equipment to make or modify the physical parts that goes on the robot?
Again - thanks for the feedback!

[Augustus Valentine]

Hard to review something so heavily stilised, but I can say that I like the colors you used. Especially how the floor has more saturated colors than the skin. Nice job drawing the attention to the face with the detail and contrast. I don't like the all white arm and even though I am not supposed to cry about you-know-what, the fingers on the other hand are a bit toooo long.

I haven't figured out a deeper meaning, if there is even one, but I simply like what I see. I think it would look even better if the lines weren't as sketchy, but that's just my taste.

Nice job.

P.S.: Proportions!

DieterTheuns responds:

You lost to the one rule. How does that make you feel, Luw?

[Children of the sun]

Let me start, by saying that I honestly like the design. It seems refreshingly original for a fantasy setting. My favourite part are the coarsely grown bits on the hips, neck and the arms above the fur.

The pipe is an interesting item. While he appears very crude and dangerous the pipe is a strong contrast adding some calmness to him. Kind of hard to explain properly. It fits so well into the picture, because you wouldn't expect it to fit so well to the character... does that make sense?

The sketches below remind me a lot of Hyptosis' art which is, talking about character design, definitely a good sign.

The warm highlights from the left look great and they serve as good subtle hints towards them living underground, especially in combination with the pickaxe. Of course we know it from the description, but I instantly thought about dwarves when I first saw the creature, so maybe I would have gotten it on my own. Who knows? :P

I got to say, he's probably a little too scantilly clad for such a cold area. Of course there seems to be some sort of warm lightsource on the left, but the image overall appears very cold still. The shaman in comparison wears a lof of clothes.

I am not a big fan of the upper part of the background, therefore the snow and rock rock. Nice job making the pickaxe handle and head convincingly look like wood and metal.

The different items are very well designed and definitely look like they belong together.

Again, I am not even touching the subject of your technical skill. You know way better than I how professional you skill level is. Moreso, you probably keep demanding more of yourself, while I am already stunned.

Great work, as usual.