GoodL's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[CyberDevil]

The hero we need but don't deserve.

ChutneyGlaze responds:

Exactly! hes like the dark knight of newgrounds!

[RAHUL'S STAND]

The perspective in this drawing is sweet

[Bat Country]

Brilliant, love the reference mix, and the style is lovely. Excellent shading work!

[Cat Rat]

This is great :)

[Tangerine Soup]

That melty effect going on here is awfully familiar. Wonder where I've seen it before...

Nice work :)

OrangeWedge responds:

HAHA, thanks ;)

[Psychedelic Mindspace]

Beautiful, I love it :) nice work

OrangeWedge responds:

Thank you very much :)

[Epicenter Ep 3 (Full)]

Nice episode, the t-shit in the first page looks great now, and I can't help but bring up the fact that you're really good at drawing people, I like the style a lot. Sorry to hear your having financial issues, and I wish you the best of luck!

Binkskitten333 responds:

Oh it’s okay. Life happens a lot. I appreciate the praise. I actually can’t draw figures as well as I want. I rely heavily on reference pictures. These are not coming straight from my mind. Especially to get the fabric on their clothes to look authentic. And this is my first time using a tablet to draw. It’s super hard to draw a straight line for me. I get frustrated a lot. But that’s why I am doing this. For practice. Once I get a cintiq tablet, I’ll probably redo everything, make the pages flow better, etc. hopefully develop a style that doesn’t rely so heavily on reference pictures.

[Epicenter - Page 1 Episode 3]

This is an awesome start to the episode. It definitely sets a very serious tone for what comes next. I really like what you did with depth here, especially with the background. The way that the slums way in the back are just the shading without outlines makes for a really good effect. I also like how you chose to do the lighting from the city that dissipates into the rest of the image.
As far as constructive criticism goes, I don't have much. I think the proportions on the shirt on the clothesline are kind of strange, it seems to me that the left sleeve is larger than the right, and both are too big. And the only other thing is I think the city could probably benefit from some additional detail.
Great work, excited to see where this is going. :)

Binkskitten333 responds:

Thanks! Actually that helps me out a lot. I was thinking the same thing for the shirt. And I was wondering about more detail but at a loss as to what. I think I’ll work on the other pages for now and come back to this one later. I really appreciate your criticism:)

[Epicenter- Page 7 Episode 2]

Just finished reading all of these, it's pretty beautiful, and I find the setting really intriguing! Excited to see where you're going with this. I really enjoy the sparse use of colour amid the general greyscale, it creates some brilliant contrasts. The use of your acrylic paintings in the backgrounds is a fantastic idea, I'm glad I read all of the descriptions too or I might have missed that! (Nice Poe reference with "Nevermore" by the way.) The line "I wish he would leave me behind, I am only dragging him down" really gets to me, I relate to that way more than I'd like to admit.

Very nicely done over all, like I said, I'm looking forward to seeing where you're taking this. I'm curious about you saying you plan to redo everything though, are you planning a software change or something like that which would justify going over everything again? Because I think it looks really nice, and it's definitely got me hooked. I'd also really love to see a print version of this when it's all done, I think that would be awesome!

Binkskitten333 responds:

Wow thanks! I’m kind of speechless honestly. The truth is, I don’t feel like it’s to the best of my abilities, I want to keep getting better and better. Right now I am using a Wacom intuos pro medium tablet and it disorients me a lot when drawing. I get frustrated and end up moving on. Or else I would spend hours on just one page. I’m saving up for a screen tablet like a cintiq. After I get that and improve my skills using digital medium, I will probably want to redo all the art.

This is my first time using a computer instead of traditional mediums, so I am sure I will improve if I keep practicing.

I’ve been sitting on this story for 6 years and haven’t done anything to it. I hope you’ll stick around and see where it goes :) be patient with me though, I work a lot to make ends meet, so unfortunately I don’t always have the time to post.

Do you have any suggestions? Critiques?

Should I upload a page at a time or keep uploading by episode? My friends say episode so they can read the whole thing at once instead of just page by page.

[Failed]

This one's my favourite of your work, the shading you did here is really cool, and it speaks volumes conceptually. Really well done