Drawwithyuna's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[First Encounter]

The composition is perfect! This illustration is so cool!

yoos responds:

Thank you, I'm glad you think so!

[Kitty Kat]

It is very good!! You did a great work!
Especially with the eyes, it is really difficult to make them realistic, give them volumes and lights, and gave them this moist aspect. And you nailed it!
The fur is also well done!!

The only things that must need a little more work are very little details you don't see first.

For example, the right ear is great, but the inside of the left ear seems to lack of something. I think maybe you should had some hair coming out in front of the inside shadow.
Maybe what does not work is that the inside of the left ear is not that detailled when the inside of the right ear is so detailled.

Also, there is some yellow reflects in the right eye but the left eye does not seems to have the same yellow reflect.

And in the brown part that comes out of the outer corner of the left eye, there is a strange orange-brownish dot (I don't know if you will see of what I am talking)

Anyway, great work! Realistic drawing is so difficult and you nailed it!

ApertureStyles responds:

Thanks for the feedback! Yeah the thing about the ears and the eyes is that I don't have a great sense of symmetry, lol.
And OH MY GOD, that little dot you were talking about happens sometimes when I accidentally leave the touchscreen on on my tablet! I just didn't notice it, thanks for pointing it out

[[O.C - KaoriYuki Demon]]

Hello! Your drawing is very very cool!! I love her face expression, i love the dynamic of the posture, I love the color harmony and the atmosphere... The gradiation in colors are very interesting. The lineart is great, also.

I have some suggestions more than actual critic. ( I absolutely LOVE this drawing and my suggestions are just a different approach of the picture)

- I think maybe you must have heard of the subsurface scattering. (This is when the light penetrate through thin surface. It happens generally with ears, with fingers if you put them in front of a strong light or with membrane like the one of your wing)
You did put a little bit of light in the membrane of your wings, but I think you can add much more light, as if light was really going through the membrane. (search subsurface scattering in google image and you will understand what I mean) Playing with this would definitively be very interesting, I think!

- In your picture, there is one strong kind of "double-contrast": The skin, which as very light values and with desatured colors and the rest of the character (clothes, wings, hair, horns...) with much more darker values and very saturared colors.
(I am speaking of "double contrast" because there is for one part the contrast with the values and for other part the contrast with the saturation)

And this works really great!! so it is another good point for this drawing!
But I would just have make either a background a bit darker or a bit lighter than the character so she can stand out!

If you zoom out your drawing to make it very small, you can in fact see how your contrast works well on the character himself, because even small it is easy to read the skin apart from the rest of the piece; but you cannot read the character from the background.

Of course, this can be a choice. For exemple if you don't want your whole character to stand out don't contrast it from the background. In a lot of picture the focus is either the face, or the eyes, or a particular object... and in those cases you must only use contrast to put the emphasis on this particular focus point.

- Lastly, I know you must have spent a lot of time on the details, but you can spend even more. For example in the membrane, like previously said by Darmoth85, or in the joint between the claws of the wings and the wings...

Of course, I am really nitpicking here because I think your drawing is so awesome that I can go into the very little details.

Your drawing is amazing and you really can be proud of it!!

KaoriYuki responds:

ohhhh wowww thank you very much! :000 ahhh i see. i will definitely take note of that and use it in my future illustrations! ^^ i was kind of rushing things a little because i was used to drawing more simpler drawings, its my first time drawing something like this. when i was completed with the illustration, i felt like something was off or missing in the wings, it just didn't feel complete, ya know? Its nice of you to point that out and im really grateful that you gave me some advice! i deeply, from the bottom of my heart, appreciate what you have suggested!! ^^

[Vampire]

Your understanding of colors, proportions, volumes, shadows and lights are amazing! I love the atmosphere of your drawing... And I love the speedpaint!

LukeF responds:

Thank you so much Yuna, That's so nice of you to say!

[Grocery Run]

I think you did a great work on this drawing. It is very detailed and you did great with shadows and lights.
You took time to detail all the clothes, the posters, the car, etc, etc...
The ground and the asphalt are very well done and you manage to give the car a metal aspect.

Also, I love how all the characters are moving or doing something, it's very lively. They all have differents expressions and looks (the blasé, the intrigued, the one talking, the main character struggling with the groceries....) This is very very well done!

This drawing is telling us a story, and this is what makes it great.

Maybe I would have done something to make the fox character in the center stand out a bit more from the other characters, like working with values, or with contrast... (I think his colors are more saturated than the others, but it is not enough for him to stand out)

Actually, it may be just me and I may be wrong, but I kinda feel like in this picture there is no clear main point of focus nor much space for the eye to relax; and I think keeping the higher values and/or contrasts at the foreground (main character + car) and lowering a little bit the values and the contrasts for the midground would help...
But i am really nitpicking here and also I am not sure this is relevant because It works great like that! It is at a professionnal level!

I love this pic very much and I will add it to my favorites right away!

ApertureStyles responds:

Thank you very much!
I do agree with you on the focal point thing. I was really concerned about it throughout the whole process, doing things like saturating his colors more and thickening his lines, but the bottom line is that there's probably too much detail in the background/crowd.

[urara ra rara ra]

That's so impressive! It looks flawless!It looks very professional

bocodamondo responds:

thanks ^^