Manderby's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Kermit]

Mona Greeny

Potatoman responds:

No Eyebrows.

[Onward!]

The shadows are bold!

Your style to me is like a painting, a true still image captured out of a virtual artistic world. Motionless but vividly tree dimensional. As if the scene itself was unable to decide if it wants to present itself as a pure black and white illustration or let the light flow through and become reality.

Really amazing.

Kidgalactus responds:

Thank you so much, pal. This is the highest praise I've ever gotten. It means so much!

[Gravehill - Chapter 01 - Page 21]

Very scary. Quite eye catching.

One thing though: The shadow confuses me. Where exactly is the light? The rays come from top left, the glare in the spiders body and the shoulder of the man tend to a light in the top right and the shadow of the fully visible leg let's us assume to have a light from above but behind the spider... I Imagine this would be quite nice with much darker shadows and the light further below and farther away. Or from behind the man.

SeventhTower responds:

Thank you for the critique! I really appreciate anyone's input!
I did this like 3 years ago, so I don't exactly remember the mindset for the lighting, but I think when I was setting up lighting I made two sources? I uses 3d software to rig lights and stuff to help me get a better idea of what I want, and I think that's what I did here. It probably doesn't make any sense, real world wise, but I tend to light my comic like a movie. It's not typically realistic haha Like a Quentin Tarantino movie. I have gotten better I think! Hopefully, the newer pages would be less confusing.

[Elite guisarmist]

Very inspiring. Deserves all of the stars. Though some nitpicking (sorry):

The pose is a litte too casual for such a powerful blow. The right leg could be stretched way more, maybe even be off the ground. Motion error: Performing such an swing is impossible with the hands holding the axe like that. Should be way more "ellyptical/curvy". And the neck could be more to the back for a little more excitement. Also, the axe seems to be rather light-weight which does not correspond to the force unleashed in the water.

Don't take this the wrong way, its a very inspiring piece!

[Lindo the Litch Bard]

Laaaa! Beautiful, but a little confusing. Crow and snake are cute but they fill the negative space which is needed to make the main figure stand out in my opinion. Why not making the image landscape, putting snake and crow on a small chest or a chair left to Lindo and add a hat in front of them? Would allow you to add a nice background too. Would love to see a simplified version of that pose in a different style.

But that is just very hich-end critic.

jouste responds:

Nice critique!

a landscape would make the image breathe a bit. more information moving forward! thanks for the comment!

*highfives

[Hollow Knight]

Less cute than in the game. But I just want to give 5 stars. I can't do less.

[Hollow Knight]

The right foot of our little hero could use some lighting to better see the outline. Right now, as his legs melt with the dark shadow beneath the skirt of Hornet, it looks as his head is attached to a large black grub.

Otherwise, good choice of game to make a fanart!

[Midnight Café]

If you stare at the image long enought, the rain falls upwards and the water flows back into the drain. Once you have that impression, it is almost impossible to reverse gravity again.

shadow-ghost responds:

Haha OMG you're right! What is this gravity sorcery?! :D

[Celeste Fan Art]

I bought the game because of this image. And I love it. The image too. :)

jouste responds:

oh hey that's awesome!
really glad you like it. the creators put everything they had into the game and it really shows.

*highfives*