DinkiDingo's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[portrait]

Wow, this is beautiful, absolutely beautiful. Even if it's not finished, it's still gorgeous. The lines are soft like the colors so nothing drowns anything else out... The expression is pleasant. It's all very calming and beautiful. The colors fade so nicely into one another, it's just really nice. Reminds me of candies and dreams.

saninakreid responds:

Wow, thank you so much!! I wish I really had the patience to clean this up but...baha. This is the most loveliest comment I've ever gotten on Newgrounds! I hope you enjoy some of my future artworks as well - i'm still experimenting! :')

Thank you again!!

[The Stag]

Wow, this is really good!! I love the different elements added in between swirls and spikes, it's really a nice touch. My suggestion for future reference is the top of the head between the antlers seems to just cut off, though... Maybe like one or two more little small swirls of fur up there would do. Aside from that, though, I dig this a lot. I love how strange it is... Like it seems like a dream, it's really super nice!! It's fascinating, I keep going back up to look at more because it's so cool. Great job!

JackieKaiju responds:

Thank you! :)

[Take A Knife From The Kitchen And Follow Me]

Wow, I love this. I just absolutely love this. Could just be this is my preferred aesthetic but I don't care. My main suggestion is to make the arms longer and make where the elbow is a little more clear since one arm looks like one large/long piece with no bone structure. Aside from that, however, I am really digging this style! You have so much potential. There's detail yet it's simplistic at the same time, it's great, truly.

RedAndrew responds:

Thank you so much. Will look at the criticism and make something out of it for future works.

[Spyro]

This is really fantastic! I love the scales and you rendered them, absolutely fantastic. The blue lining that fades helps Spyro to pop out from the white canvas so it works well on my end. The way you faded it in places helps to draw the eye around the entire piece so that's good too. My only suggestion is the arm/legs and wing anatomy. For help with wings, I would suggest looking at bats and the skeleton of it before tweaking it to fit your style. Then for the arms, it seems like the one on the right is bent a little funny but that may just be me. For the legs, that's always a difficult thing, I can't think of how to help to fix it since I have that problem as well but I can suggest references if you can find any. Even a dog would work since (if you know the anatomy of your dragon) you can tweak it to fit your piece.

Again, however, I love this. Honestly, I think it would make an excellent print and I love how the scales in the foreground are the brightest before fading to less detail in the back. It really draws the eye as well as looking very photogenic. (If that makes any sense)

SpecterWhite responds:

Honestly, I didn't use any references with the anatomy (aside from some pictures with Spyro), I just went with how I felt about it, so it might be wrong in some points as you said. I was trying for it to look better as a whole rather than actually making it look 100% realistic. But thanks for the comment! Oh, and It looks great on a print in a purple frame since I actually had to print them as a gift.

[winter]

This really is very gorgeous!! Very nicely done~ My only complaint is the head shape is more canine-like. Reindeer have like a rounded triangular shape to their head and the forehead slopes down to the nose, not the angle. That's my anatomy suggestion, though. Otherwise, this is absolutely gorgeous like wowza I love it so much. It's so pretty, the colors compliment each other so well... I love it so much. You did really great!!

Littlepinkmonkey responds:

Thank you ^^
I will look up more reference pictures next time :)

[Reindeer head study]

Oh wow. Might I say, thank you for showing the photo as well as the art piece. Honestly, it took me a moment to tell the two apart as to which was the photo and which was the study. Your piece is incredibly crisp and clean and it's gorgeous. The anatomy is spot on, fantastically done. I love it so much, like wow. It is just so absolutely beautiful. I cannot find a single thing wrong with it, it is just so beautiful and well done. Please keep up this amazing work.

StevenX7 responds:

Yeah, I like to leave the reference there so people can compare the two. I'm glad you like it so much :D Thank you! I'll try to improve and keep it up!

[Donamir]

This is so incredibly cute! I love the posing, the derpy expression, and the toes/fingers are adorable (not in a creepy way, they're just cute) The sketchy style really works well for this piece and I love how the green on the head brings your attention to the expression to really tie it all together. I love the whole thing, it makes me want to know more about the species. Really well done!~

PsychoticRat responds:

Thanks homie! Donamir is a gravity dragon. They're pretty derptastic little fellas. Really good at controlling gravity, but they lack basic motor controls. They flop quite often. I really want to post more of him because he's wonderful. He tries. They gotta be squishy otherwise they won't be able to adapt to the rapid change in gravity and density and shit like that. They're like chameleons except with gravity and density instead of color.

[DEATH BY AUTOPSY]

This is really well thought out and the way you pulled it off is good too! The shadows are good, the highlights are good, and you did well with adding bright colors to give it some personality. The expression is really nice and I like the unique eyes. The only problem I have is the guts, I can't exactly tell what everything is. I'd just suggest looking up autopsy photos, doctor's studying pictures, or other anatomy references in order to make the guts more believable. It's hard but completely do-able and with practice I'm sure you'll be astounding at it. Great job of the picture, though!~ Loving that background too.

xxanemia responds:

yeah im not too keen on the guts either, looking back on it theyre not shaded enough either compared to the rest of it! i like doing goopy cartoon guts but i will look at some anatomy pics too ^.^

[Juri Alternate Costume]

This is pulled off really well. I love the expression and the fact it's all in tones yet the eyes just pop and have so much feeling to them. It's like you could look at her face fifty times and still be getting different emotions and life from them. My only suggestions would be to make the transition from clothing to skin a little more clearer. Especially with the shirt, it took me a moment to realize she was wearing a shirt. For that you could probably just do a tad darker shadow or brighter highlight where the clothing ends and the skin begins. Otherwise this is really well done and I really enjoyed looking at it. Thank you for sharing.

ROGUEKELSEY responds:

Thank you very much for your feedback! I appreciate the comments about the blouse blending with the skin as I didn't really notice before, but I definitely see it now.

[Dreamy and his buds]

This is an excellent piece!~ I love the composition, how everything flows together, and it truly looks like it would fit well into the Pokemon style. The shading literally looks like it's from Pokemon so awesome on that. My only suggestion for critique would be with the face. The nose may just be your style so that's good on you but the closed eye seems to be slightly tilted wrong and just a tad too small. Other than that, I can't find anything wrong with the entire piece. The colors all work together, the rest of the anatomy is fantastic, everything looks like it literally came out of a tv show it's just that good. It's just all absolutely gorgeous, well done!~

Braivety responds:

wow, thanks so much haha xD yeah I wasnt completely sold on the face either. Golisopod also looks kind of weird for me but im learning xD