jerry-roberts's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Portrait study No.3 (Grid method) Short Version]

Dang, I found another one of yours by random, this amazes me, like my art is kind of noobish looking, because I use a mouse in Photoshop, and i dont have a camera to upload my traditional pieces, but Dammmm how, I watched the entire video and still cannot comprehend this level of detail, I need to start working in larger canvas sizes, and I'm defiantly getting a drawing tablet! I'm just saying, I've never tried this hard on a portrait but that is definitely changing. I've gotten fairly detailed with traditional pieces, but I've never seen just how powerful Photoshop can be with portraitry

rainwalker007 responds:

I started in 2009 and till 2014 i was full on traditional artist. Pencil charcoal, oil, acrylic, doing exhibitions and stuff. I was against digital and all its kind. But man trust me when i say this. The min you master your tablet, It will be hard to go back. I didnt do any oil painting in over a year. Starting digital is hard. Its almost impossible with just a mouse if ur looking for realism. But with even a cheap tablet, and some practice (took me a year) you will not only get there u will never look back.

Take a leap of faith. Join the digital hordes and you will not regret it :)
Man.. i was an advocate against digital art, now im a recruiter!

[Dean Winchester - Pencil Portrait]

Wow, super realism is just cool, I always get stupid small details wrong, like the eye is offset a bit, or something like that, good job.:-)

rainwalker007 responds:

Well u can try starting ur drawing with a grid. or use angles and measurement when u do the small details. like whats underneath the eye pupil. whats opposite to the eye lashes. which strand of hair is perpendicular to the eye lid. stuff like that will help you alot getting the small details right.

[Underswap!Papyrus]

hay this isint bad, but have you ever tried to apply textures to your drawings, you could have used a more sketchy brush to give the jeans there crossthreded texture, and you could apply darker darks and bright highlights, but applying black would muddie it i mean a darker tint of blue.

RainbowDogma responds:

Yeah you're right. I haven't really messed arounf with textures very much, but i should so the coloring and shading doesn't look so... uniform and boring lol. I'll keep you in mind for future drawings, thanks for the tip!

[Star Wars Ultimate Battle - Darth Vader vs. Yoda]

this is way cool, very nice compisition

britsie1 responds:

Thanks XD