SourCherryJack's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[I want to paint your sketch.]

This immediately made me happy when I saw it on my frontpage under the "recents by favs."
I love not only the contrast and values used in each piece, which is amazing, but also that you take each sketch and give it a very slight restructuring in the composition and format in order to give a radically different composition that does a lot to compliment the implied tone of each sketch. You and your thread are an honor to have in the art forum and I look forward to what the future brings for that thread as well as your own personal art.

[Lurker]

Love it, dude. Excellent color choice and composition. The only issue I can take is the girl's pose feels a little too subtle. I think it's coming from her legs which are a little too spread out to convey "huddled in fear" as well as they could if she were more recoiled.
But overall I still love it, still gets five from me. Happy Halloween!

ZaneZansorrow responds:

Happy Halloween to you too Jack D Curleoest! Thanks for the critique :{3

[Sorrow]

Excellent linework, man. You have this way of portraying morbid and nasty looking appendages with such a small amount of actual linework to show the bulging veins, stretched skin and cyst looking things that I really enjoy and find inspiring. Your improvement is very apparent here in the anatomy as well as the overall balance of the character. Now if this were colored and/or had some fills it would be perfect. But if you could bring this into the next Battle Royale (whenever that happens) I'd say we're in for a good time.

Spedmallet responds:

Thanks man, I still think you're a million times better with style though.

And you best believe I'm still awaiting the new adventures of Tina and Mary.

[Vanderlei The Former God]

Looking good, man. You've made some great improvements since the original, particularly in the areas of shading, anatomy and expressions. I really like the way the rendering is done, from far away when you're looking at the whole picture it looks like any other painting that has been rendered finely and but when it's enlarged you see every brush stroke I don't know if that's intentional or not but I think it's a very cool effect you have going on. Of course there is always room for improvement, in some areas you go full white with the highlights which I feel could be toned down since it kind of gives a plastic feel to the guy, mostly on the shirt (the head is fine). Also the grey shirt kind of kills the mood of the character's expression something a bit more vibrant would probably be better, same goes fro the background. Either way great job, man. I look forward to your improvements in the future.

[Inner Feelings]

Excellent work, man. It's amazing to see your older work compared with your current stuff. Especially since in the past year or two you've really come into your own as an artist as far as your complete compositions go. The awesome use of color that I've come to expect from you as well as the morbid content are present here but seeing the old drawing next to it really flushes out how far you've come in the last five years. It makes me all of the more excited for next five!

[The "CF" Priest Sezar Awgerto]

The character design isn't bad, definitely one of the best madness character redesigns I've seen that aren't from rhyunc, that being said the character suffers because of the poor background, and awkward use of what look to be a transparent brush over him with white (upper body) and red(waist/legs), the "wash" and "halo" are unnecessary and detract from the design a bit, get rid of them. You lose a bit of perspective on the left side of the helmet so watch out for that. The shading currently isn't anything interesting. I'd say go for harsher lighting and greater contrasts. Finally the background: you need to fix it a lot. That big black thing in the background (I'm assuming it's a building) should be solid or at least more solidly colored in than it is. The red and black strokes for the sky are pretty unpleasant to look at and could probably benefit a lot from a more unified method of coloring.
Hope that helped n some capacity, good luck with your art.

[Froschmann]

I love the simplicity of the drawing. I don't really have much else to say about it though unfortunately, so good job, man.