jerry-roberts's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Lum Invader]

man your lighting is all over the place, on the hand its up to the right, on the face and left arm its up to the right, on the body its straight on from the front and not that high... what makes it worst is the background, the white lines look like they have a drop shadow saying the light is up to the left.

all of the highlights are random... highlights should always reflect from a source and each one you have is a different shape pointing to a different direction. meaning you have no cohesion with your reflections. they confuse the image.

the neon in the back makes it worst, you have no edge lights on the character, making it feel like the background and the character are slapped on top of eachother instead of a scene. your shadow color is a solid reddish tone when shadow color is actually the ambiant light in a scene. which i guess is hard to figure out here. because of the abstract nature of it.

the anatomy is a bit off, when the knee is rotated inward that far the foot cant be facing forward... without force..

[TinkerBell and the Lost Treasure]

always liked the bumpy brush for things like this

TikkiToon responds:

hell yea bumpy brush

[Self Portrait (COLOR)]

looks pretty good, just a couple things,

it dosent quite have enough depth, its a bit flat.

and make sure you use a sharp pencil when drawing in shadow and contours or you get less than desirable results, i have that problem and i have to sharpen my pencils every 15 minutes because i press down to hard all the time, but its worth it looking cleaner :D

good portrait i like it :3

GhoulKitten responds:

Thanks for the review! :D I appreciate the comments. And yeah, I'm also a bit heavy-handed sometimes.

[Character Concept]

hmm... BULDGE... BULDGE... BULDGE!!

[Divine exilement]

you are edge lord supreme i love your edginess, you could cut glass with such a fine edge. omg it cuts my soul just such an edge:P

[At Rest]

love it, love the shading, love the concept, love the compition love it... would suggest you try to play with the concept of thirds, look it up. i think it would draw the eye in your work more cleanly. and play with texture brushes for digital art they can be amazing to just add that little pop to your art :D

JJColours responds:

Thanks so much Jerry, I have indeed heard of the rule of thirds and I definitely have used it a lot over the years in my photography, but not really sat down to apply it to my art besides making things somewhat off center as a natural choice. I will read more up on it and see if I cant utilize that somehow in my current studies. As for brushes, boy do I have a lot - I even have made my own! BUT... I tend to be a "smudger" and I smooth everything out until it makes all other smooth things jealous. It really gives a digital feel and I've been trying so hard to adopt a new blending method to move away from that. I'll continue to keep trying. Thanks so much :)

[Crowded Out]

Well that's nice... I'm scouting you man love it

Diverart responds:

thanks!!

[Harry saves the Ring.....]

He has... Magic why not just ackeo one ring why summon fishing line and hook. * -*

HarmtheHarmful responds:

the ritual to summons such a Ring is very complicated so Harry thought: Why shouldn't I make a nice trip to Mount Doom, a lovely active vulcano and see if Gollum is there....
(gives also a more dramatic scene)

[Gandalf is a new teacher in Hogwarts]

Lol nice background *

Kubbs responds:

Thanks man!
Yeah I thought about something simple yet still effective enough.
I tried to focus viewer's attention on characters.

[That One Time Harry Messed up with the Time-Turner]

I get it the time turner nice. Ever heard of a blending stump I think your piece is rather clean but could have the harsher toneshifts blended a bit

laurencetwinkle7 responds:

Thank you! I'll try to blend my colors next time. :)