gr33bl3r's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Polaris: Southern Lights]

pure wonder

the excellent use of lighting and textures lends this peace a feeling of freedom, of strangeness, its beauty is great yet terrible. i really want to see how you do these awesome space pics. great job!

[Red Rocket Tours]

holy cow!

you did that with a trackpad! very nice. despite some previously pointed out atonomic flaws your art is perfect. very nice simple lineart with few distracting things, excellent coloring job and use of texture and the pose looks very natural. great job!

[The MK-2500 Class C Zapgun]

very good 3d art!

I am a 3d artist as well and really recognize how much work goes into these kinds of things. There are very good materials on the gem and also the copper part but in my opinion the barrel is a little bit plain. I don't know what software you are using but perhaps you could increase the specularity and add a bump map. even just adding another light just to illumenate the barrel might be good so that you get really good highlights. like you said it is supposed to be really shiny. also the trigger appears to be backwards. the curve should face the other way. great art!

[Myra In Her Study]

wow...

Amazing art! this piece has great feeling and depth as well as excellent execution with the actual line art and coloring. the only thing that I think needs improvement is the shadows. she has the blinds down but those slits in them make for very interesting shadows. also like LegolaSS said her face and hand need to be lighter and you could even add some shading to the outside of her face around her hair and on the back of her hand to heighten the effect. Having said that, amazing work!

[Annika]

Another amazing work!

this piece of art just blows my mind. the pose of the character is so natural and the textures and shading look so good that it just blows me away. over that it also has a slightly stylized look to it which also adds to the pictures quality. the setting of this picture and the contents are so well thought out and well executed that you not only see a picture, but an entire story, an entire world, just ready to be explored by an avid adventurer. once again you astound me. amazing work.

[Red Baron vs Castle Crashers]

Popcorn!

I really admire not only your drawing skills, which are amazing, but also your ability to take a drawing and bring it to life with amazing posing, good background/ mid ground/ background separation and depth of field. you make the audience not only see and admire the art but also the story behind it. also your acute sense of comedy is really admired because it makes this drawing not overly serious and gives it a sense of fun as well as being great art and i feel like many great artists forget to do that. Amazing job!

[Sirius B]

this is amazing!

I envy you. I cannot hope to make anything half as good as this in photoshop or blender. or maya or any other program. this is so cool. do you use custom brushes to get the texture effect on the stars surface? I really love the glow effect that goes out from the star on both sides. also the halo effect really adds to it. The solar flares on the surface also really add to the realism. You should really think about making a making of video of some of your works. or a screen capture or something.

[River Bridge]

amazing architecture

this work really makes me feel as if i am standing looking through a window at this bridge. it looks structurally sound and also aesthetically pleasing. the curved buildings remind me of a skyscraper I saw once. they also look sound and like something that you might see around like tokyo or something. there are many arcs and good support systems that add a lot to the realism of it. the lights also add to the effect. great job!

[while the world goes by]

love it!

your work is amazing, well detailed and always has a message. it is fun to look at and I often do so. this piece is no exception. I really like the expressions on the girls they look totally at ease in a wonderful and imaginative environment. the only thing that I would suggest would be to darken the buildings a little bit because they are hard to see, but not so much as to make them obvious, just a little bit darker. that way it would solidify the idea that they were in a natural area suspended above an industrialized world without a care. once again, amazing work.

[pipe dream]

love the cigarette

the cigarette really focuses the attention of the viewer on the person and makes the mood much more what i thought you wanted it to be; longing for a better future in the sky. also the cigarette lends the background a more surreal faraway look. another amazing work!