RatedRex's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Bear trotting]

Nice job. I dig the fur textures

Pralinlin responds:

Thank you! ^^ It's really relaxing to paint fur, I had fun with this!

[Pink Rathian]

Your pixel art is fucking amazing. And so is your animation.

Eldraev responds:

Thank you! ^-^

[Face practice]

Awesome work! Looks pretty smooth. The blending on the entire face looks pretty damn good. You should definitely do some hair study though. While the highlights on your hair are great, the hair seem to lack shadow.

If you look at the flat brown at the back of the hair, that is your base colour. If you look at the front, that's where you made highlights and then blended them into the base colour. Make shadows darker than the base colour or as a multiply layer with transparent dark cool colour if you want that kind of effect.

I can see the linework through the paint on the shirt and hair. It looks very good on the shirt. It adds a good amount of depth. But on the hair it doesn't look that good. Instead of adding texture, it just looks like someone lightly scribbled on a photo. You can try using a textured brush, they have some for fur and hair and using light stokes to make directional texture.

Pralinlin responds:

Thank you!!
I agree that I should practice hair and fur a lot more. I think my idea of base colour for the hair was the reddish brown midtone that can be seen at places.. but now that I look a it the whole shebang seems waaay too light, I think I should've worked more on shadows overall :D
Thank you for your time! This was really helpful ^^

[Hand study 1]

Great job! The hand came out pretty well I'd say. Just work on your blending so that the colour transitions are more smooth. The shaded area at the palm and under thumb look much better than the fingers. The fingers look kind of like this person ran their fingers across a counter-top full of flour.

Pralinlin responds:

Hahaha that's pretty well put :D thank you a lot for this, these are some good pointers I'll try to keep in mind!

[B1]

I seriously love your style. The choice of colour and the linework you do work so damn well together. I also really like how your drawings aren't hypersexualized. I feel like you really capture the seduction of the female body without taking anything to the extreme.

FitzroyHK responds:

love u! <3

[Airport]

Impressive! Really great looking architecture. Love the design.

Flowers10 responds:

Thank youuuuu, focus was alot on design for this one :)

[SOD Melandy]

Nice job on the shading with the body. I also like where you're going with the anatomy in this picture. Imagining the spinal chord, I can see a slight S curve which is what you want, it looks quite natural. I also like how you drew the thighs. I personally have some trouble with getting thighs to look right.

Only thing I can think of is to add better texture shadows/highlights to the armor. You should keep in mind that its metallic, completely different from the skin. Therefore light interacts with that surface differently. Also I don't know if its just me but I think it would be even better if you went even darker with the armor. I think higher contrast between the skin and the armor will do more of an evil look.

ZenoStriker responds:

Thanks for the advice. I kinda thought that too, making the armor darker. I was trying to put highlights on the armor, but for some reason on this one I couldn't figure out how to make the shine on the armor look good