Sabtastic's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Some Random Dude]

Whoaaaaaa! You carved this!?

Man, that's so intense! How did you get it to keep its colour for so long? It must have taken you ages to carve.

reanimatearts responds:

thank you so much! it took me about 5 hours to carve...it did start to change colors and texture on me around hour 3. this was a pumpkin from a pumpkin patch so i think it held it's color better than the pumpkins from retailers like walmart. i had wanted to carve the eyeball and have that hanging out of the eye socket with the insides attached to it, but at hour 5 i was so tired lol

[Halloween Tale]

Aw this is fantastic!

I love the narrative of your piece--how reading a story can bring it to life in such a visual, colourful way. The proportions and anatomy are great here - I especially love how pretty your character is. c:

Keep up the lovely work!

[WHO YA GONNA CALL NOW!?]

Haha nice!!

This turned out really cool. There's a lot of detail packed into this; definitely worthy of a full-view so you can take in all that gore. Cool concept, great colour, appropriately creepy for a Halloween submission.

Keep up the awesome work! c:

Sanoan responds:

Thank you very much! :D

[I hate clowns]

Frick, clowns are so goddamn creepy... haha

If I had to pick the most legitimately off-putting, uncomfortable, scary halloween submission, this would take the cake for sure. haha I'm having a hard time looking at them even though I'm trying to write this review. lol

One thing that really stands out as awesome is your consistent light source. You did a really good job capturing all those subtle highlights from the left-most clown being on fire. It doesn't seem to affect the background at all, but that's fine - the room could just be too big for the orange glow to reach it. All in all, I'd say this turned out pretty sweet!

Good job creating such a creepy piece, and happy belated halloween!
Keep up the awesome art too! c:

[Zombie Moon (COTM_ZOMBIE)]

Ooo, cool!

Very cute rendition of these two. You're very good at drawing long flowing hair. c:

If I may, I think this image might look a bit better if you moved the girls toward the center a bit more. Compositionally, I feel like they're a bit off-center because of Usagi's hair. Wouldn't hurt to nudge them up and to the left a little so that they're a stronger point of focus. It's not super necessary though. Still looks good!

Which brushes did you use to colour their clothing btw? I like the textured look it gives off.

Keep up the great work! Looking forward to seeing more of these, if you're still planning to do them!

KanbiArt responds:

Thank you very much for the nice feedback. :D

For the coloration of the clothes, I uses the simple watercolor brush from Manga Studio with a very sensitive setting and dotted the colors onto the drawing. So I didn't use anything special, just a weird drawing technique.

[Happy Halloween]

Lovely work on this piece, I can tell you put a lot into it. c:

The characters are all very carefully outlined and coloured -- in fact a lot of your work is super clean and refined. Looks good!

I like that your background doesn't take much attention away from the characters even though you've made it so detailed. With such saturated colours in the tree bark and leaves, it's good that the foreground is a lot more neutral. You also have a good grasp of depth when it comes to multiple character illustration, too. They don't appear to be on the same plane-- they're clearly three dimensional, which a lot of artists struggle with.

My one observation (if I absolutely had to find something to nit-pick) is the mom's hat blending in with the background a bit much. The rest of the characters stick out because they're drawn with brighter colours over-top of less intense backgrounds, but the hues in the mother's hat match the tree bark almost perfectly, so she blends in a bit much. I'm probably not saying what I mean well enough, but an easy fix would be to lighten up the tree-bark with less deep colours or more leaves so that the mother is more defined.

Haha sorry, I'm rambling.
All in all, this is a really nice piece and I hope my review was somewhat useful!

[Demonoid Phenomenon]

Poke-fan, reporting in!

Great job with this evolutionary trio. They turned out great.
I really love your ability to create intense auras and light sources. The eyes are all very piercing, too. In fact, all of your work has this very clean, appealing, almost 3D look to it. c:

All in all, the only thing I'm kind of iffy about is the very faint measurement/bleed lines underlain in the background and edges of the image. Did it have a purpose, or was it something left over from the sketch layer? Either way, it seems a bit irrelevant. but it's not really apparent unless you're really staring at it like I am. :P

Again, great work with this piece! Can't wait to see more Pokemon related stuff from you!

OmniVega responds:

It could be the texture overlay, there were some areas where I had to use a patch tool since they were distracting to the eye. Thanks for the comment ;)

[Witch Satsuki]

Nice work Boco!

You're improving so much it's insane! Your anatomy's lookin' good as well. c:
You've got such a neat, smooth airbrushed style. The line-work is very neat and consistent, too.

Overall, I think the only thing that bugs me a bit is the composition being a tad imbalanced. Seems like there's a lot of open/un-used space on the ride side that could be cropped and moved around a bit, but the image still looks good either way.

Keep it up, and happy belated halloween!

bocodamondo responds:

oh, thanks! it really means alot to me coming from you ^^
yeah you're right, the right really does feel quite empty. but i just couldn't figure out what to fill there ^^!

[Mother Catrina]

Always had a soft spot for the Day of the Dead / La Catrina!

You've handled the subject matter expertly here - she's so majestically eerie, yet cute.
The detail in this piece is very subtle as well - if you don't look closely you can miss a lot.

I'm definitely adding this one to my favourites. c:

Nice work, as usual!