Luxembourg's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Dr. Samsonite]

Not bad.

Not bad. Lots of lighting on the outfit, and the use of only yellow is nicely done. I kind of like the suitcase-head idea. The figure is good, but my problems are with the rest of the piece. So much dedicated to text, and the text's placing just feels a little awkward, mostly because of those ray-filled boxes around the words. And, finally, "He's got a PhD in BEING RAD." just feels a little too similar to "He's got a PhD in KICKING YOUR ASS." from MondoMedia's Dr. Tran.
It's a good drawing, I'm just not particularly fond of how it's put together.

CaptainDale responds:

You know, you're exactly right. I drew the figure alone about three months ago, and not long after I felt the piece was missing something, and whatever I put into the background never satisfied me. I finally settled with the text boxes here, which also never sat well with me.
Looking at it now after reading your review, though, I couldn't agree more. The boxes are indeed superfluous, and detract from the rest of the drawing. I guess I was just afraid without some text to explain it, the punchline behind a doctor with a briefcase for a head would've been too obscure for most people, and in the end I choked.

I'll definitely keep these things in mind in my future works.

[Since the dawning of Time]

Hell Yes!

Shadman, this is 400% awesome. The style it's done in reminds me of the opening scene of Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, which is my favorite game of all time. This, however, has FAR more detail and there's more going on. I don't care much for the hero with the sword and shield, but he's not bad. The dragon and the background are what make this piece, though. So much detail, style, and personality melted together. Yay, swirls.

TheShadling responds:

Haha thanks man, im glad you like the swirls!

[somthing nice for a change]

Glare!

I absolutely love the girl on the right. She's very well done, from the hair to the expression, and especially the hand. Excellent detail! Excellent shading, as well. The left girl's face is strangely put together. Her mouth is way too far up, too close to the nose, which, for some really strange reason, is covered by a star. Considering that the right girl's hair is so well done, where you can see individual locks of it, the left girl's hair, which has stylized hair that ends in straight lines and looks as though she has massive blocky locks of hair, seems too unrealistic in comparison. Not that I hate that way of doing hair, it just doesn't fit when the other girl has such detailed, realistic hair.
The glare in the center is distracting!
Besides these little flaws, this is really good. Your capacity for detail is astounding and you have great shading.

[johnny depp as sweeney todd]

Johnny Depp

Great, but the title should be "Johnny Depp". The movie was fantastic; it's my second favorite movie ever, but Sweeney Todd will always be George Hearn, from the musical cast of the 70's/80's. Johnny Depp is a good Sweeney Todd, but he is not THE Sweeney Todd. Similarly, Tobias, to me, will always be Niel Patrick Harris, from the 2001 Cast. I'd say Helena Bonham Carter (from the movie) is the best Mrs. Lovett, though. Okay, I end my little Sweeney rant there. I know you were tributing the movie, not the musical.
Anyways, it's good. Very good shading and coloring, and I love the way his arms look. The expression is good and dark, and his clothes look good. I love the way you did the hair. My only problem with the drawing is that his legs look like they're leaning to the left; they don't seem to be going straight down.
Good work, keep it up. I love your work.

dommi-fresh responds:

bloody hell! this is a great review! decent points there too.
helena bonham carter is a babe!

i will change the name for ya too

[drillbit girl 2]

Cool.

I like it. I like the style and the colors, I like the tools. I like everything from the waist up, but her legs are really strange. Legs actually get thinner the farther down they go, but hers get thicker. This is very stylistic, but it's going a little too far when the lower parts of her legs are thicker than her thighs.
I love the torso, the arms, and the head, though. Great expression.

[girl in the skirt with funk]

Why?

Why is this M? Cleavage is what the T-teen rating is for.
Besides that, this is positively superb. The face is perfect; pretty, great expression (or near lack thereof), great shading, and the hair is magnificent.
The perspective is probably the best part. I have no real comments on that other than: well done.
The detail on the clothes is amazing, particularly on the skirt. Lots of folds, very realistic.

[: NONE :]

Oh noes.

Were your other works stolen? Was that why you removed them? If so, I'm sorry. It sucks to have credit stolen from you. I really liked your other works, especially Flu.
As for this, it is absolutely fantastic. I'm not terribly certain of the gender of the featured character, but they look great; I'm leaning towards male. You make androgyny fabulous. The piece is very, very clean, with good shading and a very honed anime style that you seem to make your own. You're great with giving your characters clothing; the color scheme of their outfit is great, it looks good, and the mask just tops it off wonderfully. The perspective is lovely, and the sky's curvature works. As for the sky, the colors are nice and the clouds feel natural to the work. Finally, the edge of his blade has a cool effect to it with the yellow splatters and what looks like corrosion.

Kero-the-boy-killer responds:

Thank you for your lovely comment <3 Frankly sometimes i'm confused about the genders of my characters as well... But i don't focus on that much XD And yes, my works have been stolen and posted elsewhere. Even with my name written on them... ==; But even though that absolutely infuriated me, i'm thinking about continuing with posting my work on here... only... with more watermarks of course.

[PrinnySquad]

Dood!

I like it, as I like Prinnies and your style, but the one on the right bugs me. It's stretched out. Too tall; just look at it compared to the other one. Besides that, it's a tad awkwardly placed.
The left prinny, however, is great. Very accurate. great expression, love the scarf from the PSP game.

Sev4 responds:

Ahah yeah, I forgot to add, my friend is very tall and thin and the right prinny represents him ^_^

[Creatures: Wut?]

Love it.

You and Jessepants come together to create something made of pure awesome. They're great.

[demon girl]

My favorite.

Of all your work, this is my favorite. I dig the whole outfit and the dark theme, as well as her expression.
Nothing to say other than that your style continually grows in impressiveness. Very clean, very good.