TankTheta's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[croissant]

I get the idea behind it, but tbh due to the colour choices it kinda looks like a rotting carrot.
Maybe adjust the colours so that it looks more like pastry, using some pale yellows and such and removing the pale greenish browns.Keep the tints of aqua, but it's mainly that weird pale brown that is kinda causing this effect.
I like the shape of it and the touches like the hearts, and usually your work is quite solid but the colours need work.

EDIT: It's mostly due to the imbalance of certain colours. The palette itself works well, but you overloaded a mild darkest shade colour and made it a primary colour which it doesn't work in this case.

maruki responds:

Sure, the palette however is the same from my latest pie piece, which was praised for its color choices. I made this as yet another color study because I felt that this very same palette needed work on another subject besides the pie dough. I reckon it failed, the study was valid nonetheless.

[Jack o' Death]

I do quite like this highly detailed shading then fading into a solid black, it's really quite clean and give an intense vibe. Got any story behind this character?

DeadlySunshine responds:

Sadly I don't got back story for him, neither do any of my other characters, but thank you anyway!

[No Need To Bother]

Gonna give some criticism here. The concept ain't bad, but your skull is real rough at the front. Specifically because of the eye sockets aren't properly defined (you basically did banned shading when an eye socket is a spherical dome, which makes no sense for what you're doing)
To fix this issue, just simply make the eye sockets really dark, and define the edges of the eye socket on the inside thinly, like imagine it as like the edges of a wall around a black pit. Same with the nose, the nose is like a sharp edged pit, not a soft edged one.

Another thing is the teeth, they aren't well defined in 3D space, they should be following a curvature where there's a "front" and then "sides". Make sure you more strongly define the front set of teeth and the sides And there's no jaw bones, which make it seem weird.
Also, the blood from the from the eyes could be a bit thinner splitting off and follow the face's curvature a bit more, and the lighting is a bit rough. You should treat the blood like thick "waves" that drip down, rather than lines that don't really follow the flowing down the fact at all.

You have potential, and I give points for that., and to give some positive I think the side of the skull actually looks quite nice, got this strong shadow that gives it depth, the front of the skull is also fine aside from the anatomy and the background is nice. And the concept itself, is good too, it just needs refinement.

VincentTheBadGuy responds:

All good points! Thanks for the feedback!
(And sorry for the late reply, more than a paragraph of text scare me)

[Robot is fine]

You should really re upload a larger scaled version of this (you can edit this page) and then the smaller scale. So that people can get a real appreciation for the details. What's the story behind him anyway, because it seems like he's gone through some shit and I wanna know his tale.

EDIT: That's a truly tragic but honestly quite relatable thing, metaphorically. Going through a forever life changing situation, but trying to rebuild yourself and hide the mess behind what you want to be, what you try to be. I went through that, gained a disability that changed my life forever.
Except this takes it a bit more literal. I'd love to see more stuff like this in the future.

Kelax responds:

He was once a man who was horribly disfigured in an accident. He covered himself in metal and put a tv over his face that displays pleasant images at all times so that no one will see how injured he is or how much he has suffered.

[noHeroes! "Strength"]

That's a glorious piece, what's his backstory?

DeathCards responds:

noHeroes! is a comic I've been working on as a side project. He is the first obstacle a "Hero" meets, "Strength". A hero must have the strength to overcome his own limits and push forward. More info, or better yet the comic itself by the end of summer, if corona ends completely by then :/

[What You'll Never Know]

Man, this piece hits at the heart. I feel like there's alot behind it, like a love lost. Never to have.

Necromasquerade responds:

Thank you! Most of my horror art is made to express my negative emotions and experiences, so I'm glad I was able to show that feeling with this. :3

[Lourdes]

Oh nice, it's an interesting piece, the background especially is a strong set piece. Character's face looks a bit too cartoonish for the setting, but that's my only gripe.She still looks nice

MatthewLopz responds:

lol that's the point

[DEJA VU]

DEJA VUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

turret-heads responds:

I JUST BEEN IN THIS PLACE BEFOREEEE

[breakfast]

I do miss this 80s-90s anime style, there was alot more flare to it than the clean modern anime style of today.

skullchimes responds:

yee somehow the old styles look more ''natural'' and genuine in a way, what I did may still not even be it, I made the lines too clean

[Redraw]

Oh wow, this is a fitting design for Darkest Dungeon or something. Pretty cool.

CommodoreBeeps responds:

thank you!