VicariousE's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Mushroom Me]

So insanely cute, lovingly speckled and shaded... but, and I hesitate to mention it, did you know the mushroom is kinda a phallic symbol? There were tons of illustrations from the 60's and 70's, with subliminal shroom headed things, with similar color palettes too :)

doublemaximus responds:

I'm aware, haha, but that doesn't stop my love for mushrooms! But thank you!

[Pingouin&Raptor Mahjong Tiles]

That's 90 pictures! And all of them have glaring distinctions! They all look attractive too, good show!

[Dentist Visit.]

Darn doctors are so over-specialized....

[GIRLBENDERS]

Has awesome-sauce written all over it :3 Quite epic despite it's simplicity, the expressions and body language are so in your face.... manufique. Love the playful hand-welt-mark lol. Somebody Front Page this badboy!

[where is the Clusterfuck?]

Very clever design! The eye (that's out) looks like it has an eye! Doubt that's intentional.
Not sure the top hat works, but everything else looks fine and freaky. Could use a little refinement, but much of it is a free-form character, which is created as it's drawn (from the look of it).

Doomroar responds:

An eye within an eye, i guess i pulled a Bob Ross here, Inception of happy little accidents.
Yeah, as a matter of fact the top hat is there to hide a really big screw up haha, so i started thinking... damn now what would help me save this? what do people use to cover their heads? since this is a skull, it would be to forceful to start making it half-hairy, so a hat it is! and what is better than a top hat? you are right a beret! but then i realized a small top hat worked too.
Thanks man, i will try to make Clusterfuck 3 as clean as this.

[Dance]

Posterific! This would look very much at home in an upscale club. The girls don't pop out of the scenery (colors seem the same), but the whole piece has a chaotic flow, much like dance!

[Moka Fox Form 1]

That's nice! Is that a see-through skirt? How racy!

I guess an improvement would be actual drawn grass, or at least a custom picture, showing a body indentation. If this is your first digital picture, it's awesome, just keep practicing and learning layers, color removal (a tad of white around the edges) and all those other software tricks.

InnerMokaAkashiya responds:

It is my first time thankyou for the feedback

[Swordsman]

It's exceptionally good! Only, the line art shading you did to represent the rough weave, doesn't work so well. Might look a little rough around the edges, but that tracks with the subject matter.

Don't sweat yourself so much! Imagination and uniqueness of the subject matter, mean almost as much as the image itself... especially when everyone else's creativity bucket's been depleted, and refilled with Pokemon, Mario and other re-fried, mass-media tripe.

JesusCondom responds:

Thanks mate, as I said, I put the line work in with it just for the hell of it, was doubting whether I should have it there at all in case it would only take unnecessary attention away from the colored one.

[Daisy Fitzroy]

Haven't played the game, but like the depth and textures of what I'm looking at. The background around the character, is literally spot on :) kinda cements the subject in place, and with that expression, quite well!

[Blue Metallic Wolf Portrait]

That's an exceptionally good looking wuf! Your range of drawing styles continues to impress! Was this done in copic markers, and on what kind of material? Dimensions? Does it include a certificate of authenticity?

Sabtastic responds:

Haha - dear god, can you tell how inexperienced I am with this kind of stuff?
It never even crossed my mind that there might be a certificate of authenticity to go along with 'original' works! haha

It was all drawn on standard 8.5x11" blue printer paper, sketched and shaded in blue ball-point pen, and then accented with (opaque white, black and metallic silver) markers. I actually used a blue highlighter to make the blue darker!