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Well done!

This is a very nice art piece, and I can't find much wrong with it. Keep it up!

Colours are all flawlessly chosen, and I can't complain about that. The colours of the sky in the background were perfect, and the bright colours of the city were a nice contrast with the dull grey background. Shading was excellent, especially on the bear, and the texture, namely the bear's fur, was extraordinary.

I'll have to agree with Haggard about the defects he pointed out, though. The bear's mouth isn't too visible, the bush sort of ruins a lot of the picture because it's the least detailed thing from the whole piece and that dome wasn't coloured properly. Also, the watermark in the middle was extremely distracting from the picture, and I couldn't look at the picture properly without reading that text over and over again.

So yeah, practically a repeat of what Haggard said :|. Work on the dome, the bush, the mouth and that watermark not being so distracting, and you would've gotten a 10 from me. Keep up the awesome work.
9/10
5/5

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Nice!

Not really much to complain about in this piece. It looks amazing, and I can tell you worked hard on it.

The colour scheme, as Haggard said, was awesome, and the mixture of dark red in the background and brighter colours in the foreground provided an interesting contrast. The shading on the face of the space marine guy and on the wings was extremely well done, and the texture, namely the lava texture and the texture on the duck was also amazing. Good job!

The concept is very good and original, and the picture itself is well done. It had a sort of humourous 'cartoon-y' theme, but that had a cool contrast with the evil look on the duck. Gah, I'm trying to find something wrong in this...
Umm...
Aha.
I think the duck's legs were way too thin. Right above its feet, its legs were becoming really thin, making the duck look weak and above all, weird.

Other than the nitpick I mentioned, this is a superb piece in all. Keep up the great work, it looks really cool!
10/10
5/5

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Daverom responds:

Thanks for your review

Lol, I see the resemblence :P

Hehe, this looks like a great portrait, actually, even though you purposefully made him look stupid :P. Did you draw this while Nick was in front of you or all from your head?

I like the hair in this. It looks very realistic, especially the way it covered the right eye. Shading was also well done, although the shading from the bottom of the neck down to the chest was a little weird, since it suddenly turned from dark to brighter instead of a smooth transition of the darker part fading away into the brighter part, but the shading around the face was excellent. By the way, as Joshsouza said, the neck was way too long, although you gave a clear explanation as to why you did that, so you can keep him looking like a giraffe, lol xP.

Oh, and the left eye is darker than the white one. As far as I recall, Nick didn't have two eye colours xP. The shape of the head is almost like a football, lol (the American kind, I mean), but I doubt you did that by mistake. One thing that's a little weird is the direction of his chin. It's slanting to the side a little, i.e. the left side of his chin is longer than the right side, and even though this is a tiny nitpick, it's the type of defect which you can't forget about when you're seeing the picture after you've noticed it, and makes Nick look weirder than you already drew him :P.

Also, since I've run out of things to criticise, let me criticise the grammar in your Author's Comments so my review won't seem small and useless:
It's supposed to be "This is how Nick would look if he looked as much of a douche as he really is." not "This is how Nick would look if he looked like how much of a douche he really is."

Overall, it's a cool portrait, above average compare to some portraits I've seen on NG. Just work a little on the shading at the bottom of the neck, the weird chin and the shades of the eye colours. Keep it up, you're good at making people look like douchebags :P.
8/10

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Fro responds:

I read it all, but don't have the desire to respond to it all. I agree though.

Good job!

The instant I saw this picture I was immediately impressed by the way you made the guy in it look so bloodthirsty and evil. Great job, I couldn't find anything wrong in it.

Colour scheme was perfect, as dopedgod said. The colour of the blood looked great, and no colour sort of stood out and looked annoying in this picture :). The texture and shading, well, there wasn't really any :P. Still, I liked that you sketched this. I suppose it would look better more realistic, but it still looks great like this. Scribbles FTW :D.

You drew the person really well, the way he was tilted to the left instead of straight, and I really liked the way you drew the teeth as well. Gah, I'm trying to look for some defect but I can't find any X(.

This could use a background, but it isn't really too necessary. Just something extra that could add to this already-awesome submission ^^.

There isn't really much to add to this submission other than a background. Good job, it looks really cool!
10/10

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Celx-Requin responds:

Yeah the finished product will be more polished,
so I hope you'll get a chance to check it out.

Thanks,
- Celx

As 3D as 3D can get!

Heh, 3D at last :P. Anyway, really awesome picture, I really can't find many faults in it.

The colour scheme, if not a little too bright at times (making the picture look a little like teh effin Inkrediblez!!! as hikaryuu put it :P), was great. I liked the colour of the sky - it looked really realistic. As for the shading; it's flawless, as usual. I liked the shading of the pillars and the car's shading looked great too. The texture is amazing, especially on the road and pillars, which look even better when zoomed in.

The car itself looks really good - I liked that you added your name to it to give it your own personal touch. I think you should take away the reflection onto the ground, or make it a little more subtle, since at first I thought the car had dirt all over the bottom, then I thought the car was transparent, and only when I zoomed in did I see that it was a reflection. Although it was drawn well, I don't know if you should keep it there... By the way, for some really weird reason, the car looks like a toy car :P.

I'll agree with Joshsouza on the background. The sky was much too plain. You could add some clouds, the sun, birds, a plane or anything that will fill up that empty space.

It's an excellent submission, as usual. Just the background and that reflection need a little working on, but I still can't help giving this a
10/10
5/5

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Kinsei responds:

Finally I have enough free time to answer reviews again. Sweet
Thanks For the 10 and 5 Steph!
The Name idea came from some of the guys came from the Art Forum as I was posting this while doing the maps. The swish on the side was also a last minuet detail.
The toyness probably comes from the higher camera angle. I've already changed that along with the reflectivity and a better Background and got another render up in my Art thread. Should probably give it a look if you got time,
Thanks again.

As Haggard said...

...Not sweet memories for me. Every time I saw Pokémon on the telly, I quickly switched to another channel. That doesn't mean I don't know what a Pokeball looks like, though :P.

The colour scheme is exactly like the one of a Pokéball, and I really liked the lighting you did. When it comes to the shading, I think that the Pokéball's shade should be a little bigger, but other than that, really good shading.

As for the Pokéball itself, as Haggard said, next to the white shine, there's a small part where the red skips the outline. Other than that, I can't complain about the Pokéball. Maybe you could add a Pokémon background or something, instead of just a simplistic Pokéball at the bottom of an oversized canvas.

Well, this is probably one of the smallest reviews I've ever written since I joined the Review Request Club, but there isn't much to say about this :P. Just work on making the canvas smaller, adding a background, maybe making the shade a little bigger and fixing that tiny nitpick that Haggard suggested. Keep up the great work, and sorry for any typoes; I'm in a hurry and didn't have time to proofread the review :\.
9/10
5/5

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Kinsei responds:

Thanks Supersteph,
As I said to Haggard, it doesn't have to be a pokeball, it could have been anything.
As for that little bleed mark up by the highlight, I guess the marker bleed got away from me just a bit.
Also I really wanted some open space and blank background with this, again as I said below. Although if I was going to go back and put in place a background of some sort it would be the fall off of the spotlight.

Luigi just toughened up XD

You're awesome at 3D AND at sketching. Good job on this, it's great!

The shading of this is what first catches my attention. The shading is excellent, especially on the hat and on his coat. I also liked the shadow that you put under his hat as well. Texture is excellent too, especially on that coat. Let me quote from SimCorder, "I wish I could draw like that..."

The concept is pretty cool, and quite original as far as I know. I liked the way you drew his hat; covering his eyes. My only slight complaint is Luigi's head shape. Luigi (at least in the games) has a more oval-ish head, so if you could fix his head shape and make it more like Luigi's head shape, it'd be better, IMO. What I'm trying to say is, all that made me notice he was Luigi was the familiar L sign on his hat, and if you changed the moutache a little and drew an 'M' over there, I'd instantly think he was Mario. Still, that's just nitpicking.

Overall, good job on this; I can't find much to criticise on it. Keep up the good work!
10/10
5/5

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Kinsei responds:

well sadly as i put in my authors comments, this was suppose to be a sketch of the Luigi from "there will be brawl" so Ireally can't call this as original as I would like.
But I do try and round out my skills in both 3D and sketching.
thanks for the review and scores :P

Always dragons with you... :P

This is a really awesome masterpiece, and doesn't deserve less than a 10. I really don't know how you get the patience to paint something like this. I'd give up after the first drop of paint xP.

The colour scheme is dark and gave a nice theme to the picture. The colour of the sea sometimes is a little too bright, but other than that, this had a pristine colour scheme. I really liked the colour of the rocks, and the dragon's colour was very well done. The shading is flawless. As Celx-Requin said, the moonlight shining onto the sea was painted really well, and I loved the shading on the dragon's scales. The texture was very detailed too. My favourite part of this picture was the sea, which looked so real with those ripples and waves. The texture on the dragon was awesome too.

The concept isn't too original, but that hardly makes a difference when this looks so cool. The way the dragon was placed on those rocks made it look very majestic. I just don't understand those legs, they seem out of proportion as Celx said. Other than that, I don't have any problems with this piece. The background was also very well done, and the night sky looked great. Maybe you could add some faint shadow of a ship or something, but that's just nitpicking - it looks great as it is now.

This is such an awesome picture. You painted it to perfection, and I really wish I could see the original. I'm sure your friend will appreciate this, it's amazing. Keep up the good work!
10/10
5/5
Fav'd
Fav'd as an artist

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EchoRun responds:

Thank you for the Review and the faves! :)

You sure like drawing futuristic stuff...

This is a really nice picture, which looks like it came straight out of a movie like Star Wars. I only have a few problems with it, but it's still really impressive.

The colours chosen are mostly on the dark side, and while it looks cool like that, you could add some lights and stuff at the side/ceiling, mostly red or dark-ish blue lights. The shading was just excellent, and it's what gives this picture such an awesome 3D effect. The textures you did were detailed and fantastic too.

The concept is unoriginal, you have to admit :P. This type of corridor appears in loads of futuristic games and movies, plus the shafts at the side really remind me of the Death Star in Star Wars, where if you fall through it you end up with walls crushing you from the side. Perspective was perfect, by the way.

What I think is pretty weird is the open door. Was that door intended to be fully open or still opening? If that's as far open as it goes, that is quite strange, because if you're walking through that corridor you'll have to step over the bottom part of the door to pass. Maybe it'd be better if you open the doors sideways instead of vertically; I think it looks better and people won't have to worry about tripping ^^.

Overall, it's an awesome picture, with a very well done 3D effect. Just work on adding a bit more detail and fixing that door, but good job in general :).
9/10
5/5

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Kinsei responds:

Well yes, I do like making futuristic stuff, but to be honest it's about the steel and machines.
My father was a truck driver and a mechanic in his free time, so that really molded my child hood in to more of a gear head type of artist. Even today if I catch the glimpse of a old rat rod, or a 67 stang roar by I turn my head and drool a little. Honestly some times I think I look at machines like a sex starved convict eyeballing the new busty female warden.
Yes, I need help, but by god I'm not going out of my depraved way to get some :P

Thanks for the kudos on the textures. As for the lighting I really wanted it to come from the floor. Lighting like this tends to look creepy and creepy was what I was going for. As for this being a generic hall, I agree, but in my defense, it was what I was told to model. and gotta listen to the possibly future boss, am I right? lol
as for a technical aspect I probably should make the door more retractable, for the one that is open, I wanted it to look like it was either opening or stuck, depending on the situation. perhaps some sparks and loose wires would help convey that effect.
Thanks for the review.

Hmm...

It's actually not too bad to look at, but has some problems.To me, the picture has four main things:

1.) I'll start with the background. It looks fantastic, and the colours all blended in very nicely. Still, if you really used a computer-generated algorithm to make that background as Coop said, then I obviously can't give you that much of a score for the background.

2.) Next we have the red light. It looks a little wierd, contrasting quite a lot with the dark feel of the picture. I'd suggest dark blue or purple-ish, I think it'd fit better. Also, I think the light shone on a bit too much, and it shone in a shape of a triangle, which was weird too.

3.) Now we have the black dot think in the middle. Maybe it was the main attraction of the picture, but what I didn't like was how it stood out. You should be aiming for making it stand out as its the focus point of the art piece, but I think it stood out a bit too much. It doesn't seem to belong to this picture, if you get what I mean. It seemed as if you got a black pin and attatched it to the picture. Try and find a way to give a focus point which blends in well, but has importance anyway.

Also, I don't know where you got the idea of a bullet ship, since I don't really see it as a bullet ship in this picture. It looks more like part of the portal; you know, the end of the tunnel.

4.) Finally, we have the text. Now, as practically all the other reviewers said, the text was rather distracting. I don't think that when you go through a portal in a game or something, you see text coming up saying 'Hyper Warp' or something :P. I think it does look a little unnecessary, maybe you could try and write 'Hyper Warp' very subtly in the background, so only if you look really hard enough will you see the words 'Hyper Warp'.

I've seen better pictures of portals (some artists are able to give the portal an illusion that makes it look like it's sucking you in O.o), but this isn't too bad. Background was great, even though I don't know if you made it or not, but the black oval in the middle should blend in a little more with the picture, the shining red light was a little too big and bright, and the text was too distracting. Don't worry, though, practice makes perfect, and I'm sure I'll never be able to make a picture as good as this. Sorry for the long review, and sorry if I made any grammar mistakes or sentences which don't make sense, since I'm in a hurry right now and didn't have time to reread my review :(.
6/10

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