Luwano's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Magical Crew]

This is hilarious. Great idea and inpressive pixel art. Happy Clock Day!

moawling responds:

Thank you so much! Happy Clock Day to you as well!

[Clock Day Pinball Edition]

Oh wow this is awesome. You put in a lof of details and they animation is a giant party on its own. Nice job.

Happy Clock Day!

ScepterDPinoy responds:

Happy Clock Day to you too. :)

[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

[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?

[2014 Pumpkin - Ragemelon]

Hey there, nice job! I gotta say some edges in the version on the left appear a bit crude, but that lit version looks pretty awesome in return. Is that a lamp you sticked into the pumpkin? Haha the strong light inside really pushes the angriness! Not a big fan of the way the unlit version is set up, but it's just a minor detail and the carving is what it really is all about.

Well done!

bigjonny13 responds:

Thanks Lu.

Yeah, I don't have any real carving tools so it's a real pain in the ass to get smooth clean lines, I usually have to force a score with the paring knife, and for the de-skinned parts, I score and chip the skin off with the screwdriver.

And yeah, that's a lamp instead, shows off the shading better, because a regular candle isn't strong enough to light through the thick pumpkin meat.

[Watercolor Jester]

Haha the pose kinda suggests she is doing something silly right now. Well done on that part. It could use a bit more definition, the eyes for example are lost. Not sure if this is the photo or the actual painting though. Judging from the description this is probably some kind of doodle, but dayum of this is the watercolor equivalent of a doodle, then you should doodle far more often.

The main reason why I started a review though are the colors. I know I keep saying this but it's true. In this case I love the purples and blues you used and combined.

I am not a fan of the background. The fire-y center is nice but I don't like the sudden clean edge of the red part.

Nice work. :D

SourCherryJack responds:

Thanks Lu, its a bit more than a doodle, more of a light study or a little fun drawing I did to entertain myself. The eyes aren't there, and the background was definitely an after thought. Thank you for the compliments on the colors. I love blues and violets together and I'm happy to find that you're not the first person who has complimented my use of them together in my art.