Collis529's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Day I Disappeared]

I really like this one it is just the pole doesn't seem dark enough it looks like it is melting into the background. You could give a little more contrast between the pole and the background. If I am saying it correctly you were going for sunlight glare shining over the pole correct? Still I really enjoy how you had the light breaking through the clouds. The realistic background is a plus.

ErrorCell responds:

Sweet, you've basically answered what I was wondering about. I made around 5 different versions of the same scene but in the end just uploade this one. For the final-final exhibit I figure a bit more contrast between the sky and background would do better.

[Undress to Impress]

I like the way you made her butt relaxed what kind of studies did you do to get that?

JuicyDemon responds:

Drawing a lot of butts over a long time :D

[War]

I love how you did the fire how did you do it?

Dahlia-K responds:

thankyou :) oh I just painted a blob of yellow then added a bit of gaussian and motion blur, then some painted color burn and overlay layers on top, then finalized it with white color to give it a realistic feel. And ofcourse added an overall light around the fire with the airbrush set to soft light transparency :)

[Spider Woman - Gwen Stacy]

Now ya gotta color her.

nel9784 responds:

Dam straight!! Right now I'm working on the the blood of war - burning inside out. Once thats done I'll hop right on to this pic.

[Tera warrior: Vymnis]

I love the swords and be business suit. This is me nit picking but, i notice the head and lower portion of the torso are relatively on the same plane but not her chest. I think it would look better if you had the chest and lower half facing the same direction. Despite that good job. You blade horns look awesome.

vymnis2 responds:

Thanks for the input and im glad you liked it :D

[Speed Paint - Environments]

How do you go about painting backgrounds and how do you study scenery.

ShadyDingo responds:

Well first I would stay off with a decent image or take a photo of my own of a sunrise or sunset to get started and look at it for a bit.

I start up a new file and using the gradient tool and set it to a radial gradient, then picking the colors of the sky of the background (for instance the desert sunset with the stars I would pick a nice orange that would be sort of the sun or close to it and then the further it goes away from the center it would become darker blues, purples and essentially something close to black.

I then would start with the clouds if they would be further in the distance so I could possibly paint over them if the foreground calls for such a thing to occur (ie a mountain or tree that is super close and then the clouds would be essentially out of view on the other side of said mountain or tree.)

After that I would pick up a brush, I like using the chalk brush no 60 in Photoshop's default brushes and bring the opacity down to about 20-30 but I also like turning on pressure sensitivity for brush size and brush opacity and I would begin to mimic the overall layout of the sunrise/sunset scene in regards to the actual environment (ground level)

After loosely laying out the environment and large objects in the scene I begin to figure out where the shadows and highlights are placed and go through putting all that in.

Not much else other than that and adding little beauty pieces here and there :) Hope that helps.

[Grumpy Fisherman]

Looks like waluigi retired.

Andreeew responds:

:DDD

[My College Work. (4)]

I like what you did you with this my only concern is the left leg. The kneecap portion needs to show the top part looking down on it. Unless you intended for the leg to be like that?

Mr-Insanity97 responds:

Oh ok and thank you. I actually intended to that for the left leg to be like that.

[Jackal Queenston - Suffering!]

One thing you can do is to work on proportions one way you can do this is by making two horizontal tick marks. They will tell you how tall you can make your drawing. When drawing from a reference it is important you look at the reference and decide how big you want it. Once you do that draw one tick at the bottom and one at the top do the ticks lightly in pencil to so you can easily erase them. Then work on the drawing and don't let it go beyond those two tick marks.

Mr-Insanity97 responds:

Oh ok, thank you.

[4/4 Poison]

Nice painting what made you want to only do the upper half and not a full body? Also what is the red splat suppose to mean in this piece?

alexapdos responds:

Thank you! It's the forth piece of a series of paintings. The red thing on the left is the bottom of the game's VS logo, here's how it's all going to be laid out:
http://alexapdos.com/post/71468790288/heres-a-preview-layout-of-a-series-of-four