Luxembourg's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[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

[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.