SourCherryJack's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Wasp]

When using halftones/ben day dots, it's important to use them with intention. The way you're using them in this piece is not an effective execution of the technique. The overlay is superficial and does not serve the image you're trying to create, because it isn't being used properly.
Halftones and Ben Day dots were used to simulate a continuous color or gradient, due to limited printing technology. Having a digitally colored image under a bunch of little black dots, on top of just looking like you added the little black dots without real intention, kind of gives the impression she's being viewed behind a net or something.
This idea would work better if you limited the black dots to one area of the character like the yellow of the dress, skin, or wings, and even then it would probably work better in black and white to simulate shading with dots like that. This is kind of a half measure to tweak a piece like this to work with limited effort; to really effectively use this coloring process I recommend really studying the techniques, technology and process of why old comics look the way that they do. Basically the reason for the dots in skintones is that old printers had a very low dots per inch, on top of a limited palette with cheaper inks, being printed on the cheap paper, so colorists had to be smart about how they went about achieving the colors they wanted. This resulted in a lot of tricks that get us the alternating colored Ben-Day dots. When you're putting dots over solid colors like in this piece you're not achieving anything that the solid colors aren't already doing; and when you're putting black dots over colored art with black outlines, you're muddying up your linework -- the teeth, nose and whites of the eyes are specially affected by this.
Studying the history is going to make your modern simulations of the old effects look a lot more authentic and clean; as opposed to superficial and muddy.
The youtube channel Comic Tropes has a good video about The History of Comic Book Coloring that is a good start for a broad overview.
Good luck going forward!

[Connect - Inktober 2021]

Fantastic work on this one man. Great design, concept, and scale!

Kobbodokk responds:

Thanks man!
Glad you like it :D

[Berserk. Inktober 2021. Day 9 - Conrad]

Aw dang the big bug O-face boy himself!!

[Horned viper! 13/09/21]

looking good man, The textures on the viper and the motion in the grass are really working here!

STearleArt responds:

Ty very much :)

[Vampires Bite]

Great color, texture and framing on this man! Your past few pieces have been absolutely killer!

Triibot responds:

Wow! Thank you! just trying to keep at it as much as possible

[Art Golem]

The Colors! The Shapes! The Vibes!
All fabulous, great work dude!

[Time Warp]

Great colors, excellent crab.
I especially love those backgrounds.

[Time Jump]

Love the composition, perspective and layers. Definitely a great feeling of action from having us falling in!

[bloom]

Guuuud stuff, my man!

[uh oh spaghettios]

Dope colors and textures, dude

Oddlem responds:

thank u very much jackman!!!!