Syrupmasterz's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Nocturnal Tripedal Coccyxevisc]

This is certainly interesting. :P
Your choice of body part selection for the alien bears a resemblance of the creatures from the game Spore (the eyeless mouths and suction cup feet).
By any chance did you use an in game screenshot for a reference photo?
Regardless this art piece has some pretty good shading and an eerie lighting to it.

I'm not exactly where the light source is emerging from, but one suggestion I might offer is to have the light that is extending across the grassy field to fade out a little bit closer if the light is coming from something electronic. If the light source is coming from something bigger, then I think the lighting is fitting.

Good work!

ApocalypseCartoons responds:

Thank you very much. The lighting was intentional. It was sort of a late decision, but it occurred to me that it would look creepy if the light was coming from flashlights or car headlights or something like that. As if the viewer is just going across a field, when they unexpectedly discover this. As for any resemblance, I'm afraid I don't play video games, so I don't know Spore. My reference points are all in my skull.

[Ace Worm!]

When you're THIS cool...you don't even need ears to wear sunglasses...BD
Nice work! The only minor suggestion I could offer would be with the electricity in the background.
Having it so it forks out and gets smaller as It gets closer to an edge will add to the effect you were going for.
Good work overall!

DoodlingHitman responds:

Nice, thanks for the advice! :D

[Self Portrait 1]

Not bad!
I notice that you go for a painting style approach in terms of style.
However your colours seem to overlap in some areas. (The skin colour goes over the shirt and vice versa)
If you could touch some of these areas I think it would help make the image look a little bit better.
Keep it up!

Also on a side note, I think you bear a bit of a resemblance of Trip from the game Façade. :P

ImmaDrawOnYourFace responds:

Yes, I know what you're saying about the colours. I kinda rushed with that because the original image was black and white, so i had to use my photoshop skills to get it in colour, not my painting skills. Next time I do a painting, I will touch that up. Thanks for the constructive crit. And yes, I see where your thinking about Trip. There is some resemblance. Thanks again.

[XY BattleSpot - Sableye!]

This is neat!
Great work on the lineart, you did a great job making the lines smooth all throughout, same goes for the shading.

Only thing that I can notice that might be able to be improved upon is the left side of the holo-wall. Notice how the green glow bends to match the perspective set by the floor tiles, the blue part of the holo-wall only bends slightly.
Perhaps making the wall bend just a little bit more would fix that.

Other than that I can can't see anything wrong with the drawing.
Excellent work! :P

TerminalMontage responds:

Thanks! Yes I see that. I should've bent it a little more. I'm not gonna bother editing it now, but I'll look out in the future!

[My O.C. Lorne]

Nice work on the candle details, you really seemed to get the melty/goopy effect to show!
Anatomy and facial details seem pretty good as well as the clothing shading.
The only real thing I can point out that could be tweaked slightly would be Lorne's left leg.

His left thigh is just a little bit thinner than his right thigh...but then again, I don't know what illness he has. For all I know he has degenerating muscles in his leg, in which case it makes sense. :P

Other than that I don't see anything else wrong with this drawing, good work!

doublemaximus responds:

AH yes I noticed his leg too after I posted it! I couldn't tell if it still looked right from the angle or what, but yeah I should have paid more attention, haha. Thank you!

[Predator vs Alien]

The details on the Xenomorph are superb, looks like you spend a lot of time on them!
Great work! :P

ionrayner responds:

Thank you, Syrupmasterz! In fact, it didn't take me much more time than I expected, but I thought it was ok at the end

[Ib and Garry 1]

Neat piece of fan-art here!
You did a really good job capturing the art style of the game with your choice of colours.
Seems like a blend of the game play art mixed with the cutscene drawings.

The only real thing I can critique is the small line going through Gary's legs.
It might be a wall in the background but Its hard to tell. It could be a wall that is slowly fading into the background, but this is purely speculation...:P

(Not going to mention scanner quality as that is out of your control, I'm only observing what YOU did with the drawing)

Other than that, good work! :P

dominiichan responds:

thanks
1. small line going through the legs was going to be a painted in background... gave up so not going to do that...

2. I don't use a scanner... I use a camera... that's why the quality is crap XD

[Lovely Complex]

Holy...the line art in this is nothing short of amazing!
I'd be interested to know what your secret is to get lines that aren't bumpy when using the brush.

Proportions are good as well as the shading, I especially like how you managed to make the clothe crumples unique from other ones on the shirts.
The only thing I can point out that could be improved is near the top of the her head on the left there is a small line that overlaps a couple of other lines on the head.
All things considered it is an incredibly minor critique as there really isn't anything else that I could suggest to improve upon. :P
Excellent work as always!

bocodamondo responds:

i dont use the brush, everytime i use the brush for lineart, a part in me dies. no i use the pencil tool for smooth lineart.

[Cirrus O'Zone]

Whoa, those shoulder cape details...they're incredibly well shaded and coloured, I'm impressed! :D

The line art and colouring is cartoon and colourful, which I'm sure is exactly what you were going for.

There really isn't much for me to critic...

I'm not going to criticise the colouring samples on the side as I'm sure you left them there intentionally to show what went into the shading process.

There's no point in mentioning the background as this was a character centered artwork, but I'm going to anyway...it's a nice wall...:P

With that said, the only real thing I can say point out that could be further improved or looked at again would be Cirrus' left boot. It just looks like some of the colouring from the boot is going past the line art. This could however have been an intentional stylistic choice, in which case nothing needs to be changed on the boots.

Excellent work overall and good luck with your book. :P

doublemaximus responds:

Wow! Thanks for your in depth criticism! Yes, the line art in his boot wasn't meant to pop out (it happens a lot actually and I never notice haha!) Thanks for pointing it out!