Luxembourg's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Judge Naught]

Censorship.

If you're rating this low because it features Jesus, I'd suggest you take a look back at what art is. It's expression of the inner-workings of the mind, and that is something that should NEVER be censored. In what way is this disrespecting Jesus, anyways? Stop throwing a fit if it something from a religion isn't depicted exactly the way you feel it should be or if someone even mentions religion in a way that doesn't seem like unquestioning praise; not everything that isn't adoration is disrespect.
Anyways, I'm docking two points for the leg, as many other people have pointed out. The other point is lost because of how the line-art looks a tad messy and seems to have white spots around it where the coloring didn't fit. All around, it's still a pretty skillful job considering shading, coloring, and detail. The perspective used is done pretty well.
Good work.

PandaGogo responds:

It was a quickie, and it's almost two years old now that I count.. :) I appreciate the comment.

[Arakune]

Pretty good rendition.

My favorite character is Taokaka. This bastard is cool, but he's fucking difficult to play as.
Anyways, I'm here to talk about art, not Guilty Gear's cooler little brother. As far as accuracy goes, his mask feels too elongated; his mask is more circular, in reality. You did, however, do a decent job with making him feel ethereal and fluid, and I do like the kind of sketchy paint strokes. You did a pretty good job with shading, where it is on his mask and claw-things. Some little things, though are that he has a mixed look of looking like he's made of a shadow and cloth. I feel shadow, but some "cloth" texture would have made this piece great.
Overall, pretty good work.

Jcdr responds:

Thanks a lot for the comment, i've tried this style only a few times, so i appreciate the critics.

And my fav character is Haku-men

[Maliaki]

Great detail.

You've got a lot of detail and shading going on there, and the body and clothes look fantastic. Gives the rag-tag look and feel; good creativity with the different bits of different kinds of cloth in the clothing. Good work on the hair as well! Overall, it's a really good piece.
Two problems: The eyes. They're of different sizes, and the right one (our left) is too far over from the nose; they're off center and give the face this imbalanced look that is a turn-off. The other problem is your cropping on the thumbnail. The entire image is in there, but the image isn't square, so the thumbnail looks like a flattened version of this. Not actually a flaw in the drawing, just in your representation of it in the portal.
Good work!

TheOmiyan responds:

THANKS for the review and about the cropping of my drawing, yeah i had some technical difficulties and for some reason i'm unable to crop again this is the same thing for my other drawing.

[Ded "Grave robber"]

Yes.

Hoboweasel, I think I've told you this countless times, but I fucking love your work. This is easily my favorite piece by you, probably even better than Tempestas.Style and imagination abound here, and it's your same heavily shaded, quirky, dark themes as in most pieces by you. What could win a 10/10 all on its own is the wood detail of his face. Just amazing. The body is interesting, nothing to amazing, but it accents the piece and gives the little character dude a kind of cute look. The pike looks great; you got the shape right and it has a bit of texture that looks good. The dark pen lines and the pencil outlines that surround him on all sides could make or break the piece, and they just make it WAY better.
Simply fantastic. I love your style so much.

Hoboweasel responds:

Thanks, really glad you like it! :3 I really appreciate your reviews :J

[.:Mokey Mokey King:.]

Hello!

I was the one who scouted you. Welcome to the portal!
As for the art, this is my favorite piece of yours. It's extraordinarily smooth and stylistic, and the outcome is a very pleasant piece that's really likable. It's well detailed and the shading is good. The only possible flaw with it is that the clouds in the background don't completely fit with the characters. They do still look good, though.

Mahjix responds:

Late response is late!
Thanks! :}

[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.

[: 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 ^_^

[Tempestas]

Whoa.

I fucking love it. Can I have it in a Christmas Card? Please?
I'll begin by saying that the shading is superb, as it always is.
The Girl: She looks amazing. Great expression, and I love how her cloak blends into ocean, with a tsunami occurring. Her crown with flowers is well detailed and fitting.
Everything else: Wow. The clouds and their lightning are very cool. I especially love the style of the lightning and how it weaves by the candle. The clouds become the head of a ferocious beast, and that transition is interesting, to say the least. The clock tower as a horn is a nice touch, and the tower itself is well detailed; you invluded all 12 markings and a little birdy on top.
I love it. Keep things up, Hoboweasel.

Hoboweasel responds:

Hehe, thanks a lot man! :D

Someone else showed me how to draw that lighting effect like that, I was just messing around though (I personally think it's a bit of a weak point, maybe I could have made it appear more light or defined, I don't know. If I had flash I guess...).

She thought it was really cool too :J (we just let out for break a while back and I had to give it to her then).