Soapbubble's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Staring at the Enemy]

Instantly recognizable scene, this! I guess the only thing I could complain about is that it feels a bit flat, could maybe have worked on some more detailed shading? Still, really good painting, and I agree that everyone should try it out!

CrazyCreators responds:

Thank you for the great review and I agree the shading should have been darker to give more depth to it... I ll try doing that on the next one :)

[Sentry Knight Beat em up The Final Battle]

Holy crap, I can easily see why this piece was chosen by the SKT creators as one of their favorites. Incredibly detailed, really cool take on it.

ScepterDPinoy responds:

I really like detailed pixel art that inspires me.

[skull dude]

I would love to see a more detailed version of this, for sure.

Is this inspired by Star Wars at all? I'm totally getting some Star Wars vibes from it. Either way, it's a really cool character, looks really menacing!

Gel-9 responds:

thank you

[Mega-robotran]

Damn, this looks amazing. I think what I like the most is your use of strong colors and shading. And of course, the concept of it all is pretty damn sweet. Took a while before I managed to see what it was, but after looking at it for some time, I see so much detail.

kiareri responds:

Thank you! I was wanting the viewer to stare at it for a while! So you did exactly what I wanted.

[Force the Fields]

Really love your attention to detail here. The lines on the robot, all looks so natural and real. Coloring and shading is well done, I'd like to see more of a background, but this looks really good.

ZaneZansorrow responds:

I maybe not the most creative when it comes to background but I'll improve on that evidently so thanks :)

[Surf's up!]

Well, it's all right.

It's a very very simple piece. Apart from the face, there's not much I like. The hands and fingers look really badly done, and you can easily see joints and the points where the limbs connect by the sharp edges and lines. Try to smooth these out a bit. The stomach and chest looks awful deformed, and I feel you could've been a bit more precise with the lines on his chest.

The eyes, hair and mouth don't look too bad, this easy and rather simple style could fit in a cartoon or something like that. I'd also like to mention that the body seems very out of proportions, and very asymetrical in that one side is wider than the other.

Also no fan of speech bubbles. Ever.

PlusPlusKid responds:

Thanks bubble. I'll try to try better next time. :)

[Wizard]

Unlike your Viking piece, this one seems a bit more out of place. It's quite obvious that it's 3D without even zooming in, so the "old" look that you're going for kind of clashes a bit with that, in my opinion of course.

Either way, the character itself is very well drawn, from the gown to the staff and the face. It really looks what I'd see as a wizard or a druid of sorts. I'm not too sure about this filter you run it through though. I see how you want it to seem more natural, but it makes it somewhat hard to make it out very well. I for one would love to see more of an environment around him, a background.

samulis responds:

I originally designed the scene to be the wizard on top of a mountain, but I moved the camera around a bit and eventually settled on this angle for the shot... I decided the ruined columns would suffice as some grounding instead of just clouds and bland hillside. I cannot exactly fix the issue that it looks 3Dish, but as it is a work designed to be made in a fictional land, such concepts of prospective are not completely impossible, especially if you have magicians. :D

Thank you, though for pointing that out and giving some feedback on the composition and such, that's just what I need. :)

[Just Chillin']

One thing I really feel I can applaud is your attention to these minor details, broken window, text on the different screens and so forth. The lack of detail in the general background could probably be attributed to the rain, I assume that's what it is. Would be nice to see something like puddles, as it's obviously raining in through the broken window, or something like that.

Your shading is really well done, and I like the color scheme you went for. I would like to see this a bit more refined, if you know what I mean? It's pretty obvious where the brushes or colors have been changed, and a bit more of a gradient coloring would be nice, slowly going from shadow to light and such.

Also, is that a gun leaning on the wall behind her, or just a part of the building?

Lintire responds:

The minor details are apparently a big hit. I'll have to include them in future paintings and also more details. Personally I wouldn't opt for puddles so much as general wetness, because just looking at the pictures and how puddles of water look, it'd look lame. Not really lame, but fairly lame. Puddles itself is a lame word.

And I totally dig what you mean by refined. I have a real problem with tightening up pictures because it takes a while and I don't tend to give a shit about the final product, but just looking at it this is really a picture that would benefit from a little tightening.

What's funny is that I used the same brush throughout. What you're referring to is value though, and I totes flunked at least a bit of that. Working on it, though, so glad to know it wasn't too terrible.

And yeah, that's a gun of sorts. Or perhaps its a piece of building that fires bullet things. IMAGINATION!

(also thanks for the review, totes helpful)

[Viking Village]

Well done!

I'm really impressed at how you made this look like a painting even though it's a 3D piece. I'm not sure if it looks very old, even though it's very flaky around the edges I'd expect to see more deterioration off an old painting. Especially in the colors, they should probably have faded a bit more than they look on the shields, for instance.

You seem to have pretty much nailed the architecture, the landscape seems a bit odd, feels more like a southern look to it with the spread out bushes and such. It's hard to tell whether the ground is sand or dirt. I'd love for you to add in a couple of people to the painting, if the ship just docked I'd expect there to be people running around with whatever the ship brought with it.

Generally a really good piece though.

samulis responds:

Thanks, I might try adding some people... I don't have a very good array of characters though.