CandySweetssJr's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[a mysterious moth at the top of a small world (old commission))]

You've done a great job bringing the image and character to life and adding small details, like the blur on the cliffs, the stillness of their blade, and many other things, to the animation that brings it all together.

Also just a great piece for the upcoming season 🎃

MEBItheArtist responds:

thanks!

[Here am I]

Beautiful linework and the chaotic but organic stardust of the galaxy. I especially love the way you took the illustration with a lovely green background which reflects on the whole image.

HappytoDraw responds:

Big thanks!

[Rillaboom Redesign]

I like many of the redesign choices you made. This definitely will be a wordy response, since I feel like saying a lot. There are two things that I especially want to go into (there is a TL;DR if you want the main points).

First, I like how you redesigned the face, removing the strand of hair covering the face, bringing out the ears and the fur on the side, separating and bringing out Rillaboom's eyebrows, and reshaping the mouth to be less square compared to the original. I'm getting both monkey and a bit of bear from the overall face, and a lot more power (you mentioned you wanted to bring out the savage look).

Second, adding the twigs and reshaping the leafy hair to be more pointy gives the overall design great movement and increased size. It's especially prominent on the back, as if the fur on Rillaboom was spiking outwards like a porcupine (again, adding to the power of the design). It also fits the idea of Rillaboom, maybe sticking the sticks onto itself as a defense and to use as weapons later.

I like the addition of the light green as an accent color to the overall design, especially Rillaboom's eyes. However, the extra light green tuffs on the head and chest feel distracting and don't feel like they fit in with what's around them.

While I'm not 100% with the original, the green hair tuff in the original feels like it's extending out in space due how it comes out from the eyebrows in a V shape, how flat the back fur is around the tuff, and its color. The tuff in this redesign is a much brighter color compared to the back fur. There's already some great volume coming from making the leaves more pointy. The 3D look of the green leaves contrast with how flat the light green tuff feels, how it sticks straight to the right and how there's no shadow on the bottom of it to give it some form.

The design could get away with removing the light green tuffs but leaving the light green in the eyes to draw attention to the face. Maybe there's another way to add the light green, but I'm too lazy to come up with ideas at the moment.

Thanks for reading this. Most of this is nit picky for something that supposed to be fun, but I just really like character designing and talking about it.

(TL;DR) I like your design over the original. Two great changes gives the design more power; don't like the light green tuffs.

ZeTrystan responds:

Oh damn, you were motivated! Ahahah.

But thanks for your comments! Always interesting to see a well put walkthrough of people approach, especially when it's all in good fun! :)

[Wibbit]

It is pretty cute, especially its big, round eyeballs as well as the bubbly letters.

ExtinctionArts responds:

Thank you!

[DnD - Birthday the Cake Golem]

He looks really fun to work with, big enough to be intimidating but with sweet with desserts.

If he replaces every dessert of his original body, is he still Birthday?

ZeTrystan responds:

To be honest, I'm not sure! I guess he still has to keep his core cake center ahah.

[Whirlpool Eel]

In addition to the awesome swirls of the water moving, the eel stands out with its menacing and goofy eyes. The whole design is very clean!

ExtinctionArts responds:

Thank a lot! It’s one I’m very happy with!

[Fellow: God of People]

Q: I really like the squeeze of the space and how much my eye is drawn towards the figure. After sketching the figure, how do you decide to frame and cut certain parts of the figure? Is there such thing as cutting off too much?

Beezims responds:

Aw, thank you so much!! I think cutting out some of the parts closest to the viewer(though not all of it) helps the illusion of depth/movement!! When sketching the figure, I thought a lot about the golden spiral or how the eye naturally moves on the page. I think when it comes to how much cutting off, it depends on what you want the piece to say! For example, I wanted to imply movement, so I cut off some parts to suggest they were just moving out of frame ^^ I hope this helps!!

[The Bullship Crew]

What a wacky but fun crew you got there.

Good luck on the open seas :)

ZeTrystan responds:

Thanks! Hoping that we survive! ahah

[speeding !!!]

I think they're more than speeding.

Really like the blues of the road with the viridian-ish greens of the car.

EDIT: Whoops! I didn't recognize it as phlatho green; learning about new colors is interesting. Yeah, it's an amazing color :) .

unibrawn responds:

phthalo green, one of my favorite pigments

[Caught Red Handed]

I don't know why, but this version of Garfield reminds me of a racoon.
I like how you used the blue-purple color as a shadow color, and it contrasts very well with the yellow spotlight.

ExtinctionArts responds:

Thank you :) I see it too lol