Luxembourg's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Summoning]

Cool.

It's very well done. As always, your style is gorgeous and pleasant (even in spite of a demonic summoning!) I love the texture placed on it; not a filter-rape, but rather an enjoyable little addition to the piece. I love her hair, and her head in general.
I do, however, have one huge problem with it. The legs. I implore you to try and sit like that. You can't. If you can, you definitely won't be able to smile whilst doing it. The closest you can really comfortably get would involve your legs going back instead of to the sides. It would look a lot better and wouldn't have your character in contradictorily cringe-worthy pain to have the legs going behind her knees, with some perspective placed on the legs.
I feel it would be a good suggestion for you to always test out a position in real life while mapping out the position of a character in a drawing before drawing that character in a bad position. Even still, it's a good piece, and your works are continually feeling more and more complete. Keep up the good work!

PixelCake responds:

Thank you :D
If you're flexible enough, and she's a retired gymnast, you can do the pose, but I think the point is to get your pet into a painful position.
I have to imagine people who like being tied up and abused don't smile because their dom might 'punish' them further :3 but I want to make it a point anyone I draw in some kinda restraints will have a happy or goofy look on their face. I never want to draw someone in bondage who looks unhappy or fearful.

Good point on the legs though, they do look odd.

[Justin Bieber cover]

You fools.

Read the damned description. This is commissioned work. The artist was PAID to draw this for the cover of something. Rating it down because it features someone you don't like is the act of an idiot.
Reviews are to rate and tell what was done wrong and how the artist can improve. You can't really tell someone to stop drawing what they want to draw, and you especially can't tell someone to stop drawing something they're getting paid for. Reviews aren't for content so much as for execution. And frankly? This is excellent work. It's an excellent representation of him that's very realistic looking, detailed, well-painted, and even still keeps some amount of stylization. The color scheme is great and the added effects are awesome as well. My only problem with it would be the amount of blank space near the top, but, since this is a cover of something, I would assume that's where the title will go.
Keep it up, sir.

Bullsik responds:

Thank you VERY much for saying this.
Yes, there's a blank space left for the title.
I'm not a fan of this guy - but my job is to draw it the best I can. I got paid for it because it's my profession. I always caption my art with short information. When it's commissioned then I say it's commissioned. And when it's just me drawing what I want, then I write whatever I want underneath.

This picture is inspired by the cover of "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. This book is quite known in Europe and probably remains unknown to the rest of the world. But I thought its theme goes somehow works with Bieber.

[Burn]

Good.

The guy below me is a pig-head. This space is intended for good comments and critique, not masturbatory idiocy.
Right. About the piece:
It's actually very good. The lineart is great, using simplicity to portray a beautiful image. You have a great palette choice here, very warm and cohesive. I have a love/hate relationship with how the background only takes up a portion of the image as a whole. On the good side, it gives the effect that she's coming out of the image, which is a neat effect. On the bad side, for that effect to work, her head would have to be the only part of her coming out of the background, with her legs inside the image. Her right knee peeks out of the image, shattering the effect and giving her the appearance of being pasted onto the background image rather than being involved with it. I don't even know if you intended her to look like she's coming from the background, but that's the effect given here (and a good one at that), and it's ruined by a tiny little flaw there.
The background itself isn't anything special. It feels just a little lazy, but it doesn't detract from the piece too much, since the girl is the main subject.
Anyways, keep it up, hope this comment helps in some way.
Good work!

gusana responds:

thanks! great critique, I can´t change anything about cause it´s a quick aold drawings i made, so i don't have the flash file anymore, but thanks for the comment I will think about it next time a make a drawing like this n_n

[HOOT HOOT]

Awesome.

This is just gorgeous. I couldn't ask for anything more from the owl, which just stands out as beautiful. The face is the best part of the entire piece, but I also really like the scarf that it wears, and how it kind of fades and shreds as it moves away from the owl.
The branch has a flat art style, one that's different from the owl, which isn't too bad except for the fact that it makes the owl look detached from the branch, because it doesn't have the same depth as the owl. It just feels like background, which it shouldn't, because it's in the foreground along with the owl.
This is amazingly pretty. Keep it up.

Slow-Action responds:

Thank you very much. <3

[RGB]

Getting better.

Your score's probably not going to go up much, since this isn't a finished "piece" and people won't like it's simplicity. The people, individually, aren't bad, though.
You really haven't done much femininity. The only other case of you drawing a woman (that looks like one, anyways) that I can think of is the Koffing gijinka, and it was pretty androgynous. My first though when I saw this was "oh, wow, Vero drew some girls", and they're really a lot better than I've seen from you. You need to do some faces, though, to complete the practice. The blue girl's hips are located too far down, which gives her torso a weird, stretched look; besides that, though, they're pretty good.
The men aren't anything too new. Ridiculous and funny looking, like you usually do (and are good at). The one laying flat and naked looks like he has flippers rather than arms, and I really have no comment about that red one in boxers.
Good work thus far. Keep at it.

[I-Bot]

Awesome.

After seeing someone else's interpretations of him based on something you had told him (about him being the "geek" of the group), I'm not surprised at this outcome.
That said, he's great. Hands down, he's now my favorite bot of yours.
Whereas all the other bots are made to look tough, I think it's really great that one of them is a shy, nervous little dude. He's quite the contrast with the rest of the group, and, dare I say, he's actually kind of cute, considering his face really reminds me of Wall-E. I think it's actually kind of fitting that the artsy bot is the nice, different one.
Anyways, the drawing is really well done. You have the greatest affinity for robots; don't ever stop drawing them. You've got a solid line drawing with good colors (including a good metallic effect), a great amount of detail, and a really cool character. The only problem here is the balance; there's nothing to the right, since everything is pushed to the left.
Great work!

[pink lady]

Rating is wrong.

You can change the rating down from A. The "Adult" rating is really only for images that depict genitalia, gore, or extremely sexual images.
This is a figure image that actually doesn't show any naughty bits. Not offensive at all! And it does matter what the rating is, since the art portal has "A" rated images hidden by default, so many people might not see this, and a lot of other people expect "A" images to be porn, so people who come in here might get upset that it isn't sexy and rate it down. That's probably why it has a low rating as is.
Anyways, on to the painting. For something you painted in 5 minutes, this is actually very impressive. The colors used give it such a pop and are quite pleasing, and the lighting is rather good for a speed paint, and I like the few little areas that have hatching. I think that it could have been a far more refined work, though, had you spent just 5 or 10 more minutes on it, with a slightly neater outcome.
It's a good painting nonetheless, and impressive for the short time spent making it.

Zalrohg responds:

yeah i was covering my bases with the rating :/

[Light and Hope]

Hope was the worst character.

I, for one, didn't have a problem with Vanille, but I hate Hope. Even after he stops whining, even after you reach Gran Pulse, everything surrounding him is insecure or motivational bullshit. He does, however, have the coolest Eidolon ever.
As for the art, it's really simple and very stylistic. It's not too bad. Lighting's hair isn't Pink, though, it's light brown. The main problem with this is its lack of a background. Some pieces can work without it, but this just feels incomplete.

[Last one standing]

A hodgepodge? Not entirely.

Polonium made no effort to actually interpret the piece. He took it at face value and threw a hissy fit because the gas mask isn't perfect. I mean, there's obviously one major theme visible in this- making art out of pain.
Anyways, I don't review other people's reviews, I review pieces. I do agree with one thing that Polonium said, and that is that this feels like it uses too many cliche emo themes. Are they fitting? Somewhat, but you can depict pain in more creative ways than this, I'm sure. Looking at your gallery, I see a well of good imagination. One other qualm is the location of the drawing. Had you swapped the artist and the image being painted so that the blood figure was in front of the artist, the picture would have felt more cohesive. Another problem is how the hand being used to draw has its pinky raised. Why? That isn't a comfortable hand position for drawing.
Regardless, this is a fairly impressive piece. It's powerful, yet simple, and that can be hard to pull off well. Even though it's a silhouette, the figure still has a lot of detail and looks great. Good work.

SmokeryDots responds:

Thank you:-)

[Misty & Tracey]

I've noticed a rise in useless reviews.

I like the drawing. The lineart is fairly simple, yet effective, and the coloring is gorgeous. I really like the texture placed over the image. As for the subject matter, though, it's a little humorous, but it's still fan art. And why say it's Misty, May, and Dawn's party when only Misty is visible? I like the scene depicted though, and I think the makeup on the floor is a really nice touch.
For some flaws, I'm a tad confused about her right (our left) leg. Her stance, that considered, doesn't look particularly comfortable or sensible. Why's she lifting her leg while beating on him? Wouldn't she be able to hold him down better if she was in a more grounded position? And one other little thing that's bothering me is the shine on her legs. It carries over onto her stockings. It's not impossible for stockings to have a sheen to them, but it doesn't make sense for the sheen to be continuous from the legs to the socks. Skin and cloth are different materials and reflect light in different ways and places.
My issues now risen, I'd like to say that I think this is a really good drawing. I love the coloring and detailing. It lacks a background, but I don't feel it needs one. Good work.

ZachsAnomaly responds:

This was a quick doodle of a scene from an online roleplay, it has a whole story behind it, that is why I mentioned the unshown characters even though it isn't necessary to ; I felt like explaining. LOL and I did the shines that way because I was going for the style of an artist I admire, he always does the leg shines that way and while it would make no sense on a more realistic drawing, this is Pokemon so... Yeah--their eyes and everything else could be less cartoonish as well but then it just wouldn't be Pokemon----as well, her leg, she's Misty. LOL. She does things like this--her legs are very 'mobile' as well as she's inhumanly flexible sometimes. XD!

I like the review, I respect that. Most people don't hardly bother a four word sentence in their comments. And thank you for the 'nine', I am glad you like the picture. <3