Joshsouza's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[i'm on acid tonight]

bad trip?

ultrapainkiller responds:

exactly

[The small Island]

Too empty

I think the island it quite boring and too cliche. The water looks a bit.... trippy... But I like the shading you put on the sand and the tree leaves. Although, it is WAY too empty. Maybe putting two stranded people out there with a crashed boat? Maybe mountains or something? Maybe at least put clouds in the sky. Just search up "islands" in google images or something and maybe that will give you an idea because I think this is as basic as you are going to get unless you draw a circle with a white background.

Spend more time and effort into it, I see that you have used value to make waves... or ocean.. or something. Maybe make just the island boring and make the sea big and exciting with lots of fish and creatures and rock formations.. for old irony's sake. You have the skill, just make something with a bit more life in it.

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[Yesterday Afternoon]

Exciting

I think this is a very good abstract painting with a nice style to it. I am mostly getting details for what happened by looking at the author's comments lol but I really like the flow of many random shapes and colors although I have no idea what the tiles at the front and end are supposed to be unless it's like the inside and outside of a building. I don't really know.

I think the colors are the best part of this piece in all but I really don't what you should work on because it not only looks beautiful, but keeps me to like abstract art. Keep at it. You seem to be a lot better at abstract art than realistic pieces.

Hacsev responds:

Thank you. Where I come from houses have ironwork on their facade, which is what you call tiles.

[NG]

Needs more effort.

It;s been a while since I reviewed anything so I may as well start here: You should get a better art program like I have mentioned and maybe a tablet. The tablet I use only costs 70 dollars but I would recommend getting this free software called Gimp because it suits your style. http://www.gimp.org/

I would spend more time and effort onto this because The "NG" letters or abbreviations look very uneven and sloppy. maybe add more color even though the NG theme is orange and black. Be creative! Just keep practicing too! Maybe try starting on paper and making sketches like I did, then after I got good with sketching and traditional, I got myself a tablet. It came with a very good software too. Just try and make pencil drawings or mainly traditional and maybe scan them. if you don;t have a scanner, then take a VERY GOOD PICTURE or else...

Like I said before, be creative! I know MS Paint is hard to be creative with but there is a whole art thread that makes art out of MS Paint and they look amazing! Just practice and keep trying.

[Doubles13- First Contact]

Awesome

I thought the piece was really cool with all of the colors but I think the buildings could of used more detail but the ships and the death ray was amazingly detailed and the marks it left on the street. The shadow effects with the lights are a good thing too and this looks like you took a long time to make this when it's in full-size. I think if you added text and captions to it, then it would make a great b-movie poster for that contest thing on the forums and such. This is kind of a different style of than you normally do and you did great on it. I think you should get the trial of Photoshop because if you have mastered Gimp art, then you can conquer Photoshop. That's all I have to say.

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Mabelma responds:

Thanks for such a great review but this wasn't all completely done by me, all of the coloring was done by Re2demmer so he pretty much deserves all of this recognition you are giving him but thanks . Keep in mind this was a collab between two artist .

[Japanese Wolf]

Looks like Vector!

Well this is really good but did you use a fie point pen because that would have taken up a whole lot of ink there but back to subject, the edges look crisp and smooth like some vector art and I wouldn't be surprised if it was vector art. Anyways, the right paw looked different because it isn't all filled in like the rest of his body so try and fix that.

I am glad that you didn't add any color into it because that would ruin the whole "Japanese" effect on it all and it would just look ugly and such so good call on that.

I think you should keep up these kinds of drawings because you are good with the edges and all of that, but fix up that right paw a bit and it will be perfect. You have my word for it.

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MonoFlauta responds:

ok, thanks a lot for the review :D

[Cold Symbol]

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Well I thought this was pretty well done but with it zoomed out like this, it just looks like you messed around in Art Rage for like 5 minutes until I zoomed in and saw all of the details in it but how BIG is your compute screen because it's pretty big to me really! But it would have been better with different colors because the blue background and the just frost thing gets sort of boring to me.

Well I would work on putting more details into this because a symbol isn't exactly the best thing unless it has something else into it but it looks like some sort of Japanese writing but what do I know about that? I only write English! Well with everything zoomed out, it looks like the clear marks on the brush strokes make it look shining when zoomed out a bit! Well I guess I will go to the overall score now.

Well like I said, try using different colors and try to completely fill the strokes because I learned in this review that things are not always what they seem but in this case, that mean that you need to have it zoomed in a bit more but keep trying!

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HeavyTank responds:

Haha, I don't know Japanese, I just came up with this...I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist :D