HarlequindeRustre's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[finns swords]

Despite the fact that the source images RIGHT THERE ON THE CANVAS do not use a bold black outline, you decided to use one anyway. Couldn't you figure out how to use the eyedropper tool in MS Paint? For that matter, why the heck did you do this in the first place? As an exercise it's generally pointless and as an artwork submission it looks like something a second grader would print out and stick on the fridge with no small amount of pride.

mjflaherty468 responds:

Look i have alot of better stuff on my computer that for some reason i never bother to upload also why are you targeting me specifically i already have enough stress just getting out of finals and now i got to deal with your fucking bullshit hoping for some comments that can actually brighten up this generally shitty day

[Six Years in Nevada]

"Madness" works have never failed to strike me as repetitive and mindnumbingly derivative.

You're free to depict what you want, but I feel you're wasting your man hours on things like this.

On a technical not, the enemy spawn doesn't stand out so much- more like some attempt at generic toothy monsters on a boardgame card than something meant to be expressive or cinematic.

The "hero" character also seems much more in the foreground than the monster he's supposed to be shooting- and if he's supposed to be that way and is firing more to his right instead of straight ahead, it's simply not comng across.

The composition of the whole piece is really stunted, with bits and pieces that just don't fit together. It seems like you started out with the characters and background divided up over multiple layers and as you went on developing the scene you realized how everything wasn't quite lining up. Furthermore, I feel that you tried to condense and edit things to fit- more like beat into place, honestly- and at some point threw up your hands. The end result is...confusing.

No hard feelings, love, but I feel like your hand has developed too far past your eye and it's beginning to really show.

[John: the fire guy]

Do you even know how shadows work???

mjflaherty468 responds:

look i am just now staring to work with shading now can you not be so critical on my art this is one of my first and only times shading on Ms paint

[demonic hero]

Maybe you should stick to crayons...

mjflaherty468 responds:

fuck off man jesus christ

[madness weirdness]

Copypaste, rinse and repeat

Seems to me that you can only produce something interesting when it involves paper dolls.

mjflaherty468 responds:

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mjflaherty468 responds:

check your own art asshole

[HAPPY BIRTHDAY PICO!!!]

Eh~

This is nice, but Tom looks like Jacko. Just a little bit...

[diablo 2 style angle]

Modest...

But the anatomy is totally bogus.

[Booty raider]

Did someone call for ANATOMY LESSONS?!

Seriously. Dude. Reference pictures are your friend.

The abdomen's too long, not to mention skeletal (Unless you're Pro-An, this is a problem). The ribcage is nonexistant, the boob that we can see is anatomically incorrect, what with the nipple being in the wrong place, along with the center of gravity for the breasts.

The legs are sausages, having near no definition or differentiation between thighs and calves beyond the blurb of hamstrings on the back. The feet are definitely the worst extremities, with a socklike sillhouette that doesn't fit a boot-covered foot at all.

The ass is probably a seperate entity, what with the rest of the body being anorexic in the extremes(and thus the fat percentage is depleted EVERYWHERE).

The arms are decent, except for the fact that the right hand seems to be a hooklike stub welded to the gun, which seems to be spewing fire, even though it seems to be an automatic weapon(thus not a flamethrower, what with its lack for fuel tanks and such).

The hair's a little funky, due to the figure seeming to be rapidly moving forward and its staying rather plastered to her form. But I'll pass it off to being matted from sweat and stuff...

The face is mysterious, what with the dramatic shadowing, but, like the hindquarters, doesn't seem to fit the rest of the body.

So, overall, the face and arms are the best part of this. The lower half of the body is prolly the worst part, due to its sausage physics

My suggestion is to get some better, WHOLE references, because it looks like you're picking and choosing what parts to use on a drawn figure. ALSO KEEP IN MIND that some reference picture have the subjects at different distances, so you'll want references that are within about the same distance when they were depicted/photographed.

And that's all I got, other than the people who simply stare at various body parts and nothing else are rubes and you shouldn't trust them to get a good idea of the reception of your art on the whole...

Hildebrandt responds:

I dissected people. Don't tell me about anatomy. Bitch.

[SPANKABLE FELICIA]

D:

... it scares me, mommy.

The calves are toothpicks, thighs are rippling masses of gelatin. Don't get me started on the hips. Translation: legs overall crap.

Torso... the torso... it's.... Translation: the best parts of the torso are the unseen parts.

... and the arms... oh my... Translation: the arms look like they were sculped from pudding by a bored frat boy.

The face is undeniably the most wrecked part right after the thighs. It looks like it belongs on a woman 300 pounds overweight that got lip surgery and a face lift. Translation: BUT-`ER FACE!

Now that the worst is over, I'll tell you what's good:

The coloring job, while the lineart is completely balls, is pretty spanktastic. Disptie the generic background, it has a sense of stylelization that persists for most of the figure. The only failings are the shadowing of the tail and face(that shit needs to stay in the dark as much as possible).

So here's my suggestion to you, mister Old Anime fan: GET SOME GOOD REFERENCES LIKE A MODEL BOOK OR SOME SUCH CRAP.

After that, you're golden...