Quarl's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Lovely Book [Art Fight]]

Who doesn't love Bleak? Garden is a bundle of good energy and her drawing style is really clean. This is a solid rendition of her cat Celestial. I love those sketch lines. Garden often skips line quality completely and I can see you playing with that on the pleated dress but you really went buck wild on those outlines and I love it <3

[Insecurities]

Feels.

[Yo Before Mermay End-]

I love fish now. I can't tell if this is wholesome or not but I need more of it. Such wonderful colors and shapes.

[9th annual AIM contest promo art]

This is absolutely beautiful. The colors are very inventive. The buildings are giving off a Tetris color scheme. There are certain things I would nit-pick like perspective or figure but I think it's actually perfect for the competition. The style speaks to the accessibility of the competition and comes off like a grand invitation. Drawing more figures would have complicated the drawing, perhaps unnecessarily. It's like she's saying "come one, come all!" She's waiting for the contestants to show up and rock out :3

Phaox05 responds:

Yeah you identified my main issues when drawing, I kinda hate drawing people because I never manage to make their body with good shapes (for example the legs being just one part even if in my sketch I designed them being two to emphasize the knees).

Talking about perspective I wanted to show distance between buildings and that's how far I managed to do without making it look strange or low quality as the drawing started to get really fuzzy with things at the back of the girl. (I'm planning to change the program I use soon as I suffer from the quality levels it gives me)

I like your point of view of the message, makes an extra context to the drawing itself, thanks for giving feedback I will work hard to improve my drawings!!!

[Oh Dae Su's writing skills]

Ok, I came to your page to comment on the AIM illustration but I laughed when I saw this character drawing. I watched Old Boy back in 2008, it's such a strange classic. In the relative simplicity of this style, you've managed to convey that character perfectly. Sunken eyes, frumpy hair, disheveled button down shirts... and of course "tinta roja," bahaha.

This is a fun drawing :3

[EDDS-weezer]

I never followed Edds World but I remember when he passed away in 2012. I'm sorry, his style and cartoons obviously had an impact on you. Love Weezer by the by, very talented group of "nerds." My brother and I used to jam on riffs from the debut album.

Since you're blending styles and exploring ideas I'm not gonna get all critical with anything. 45 minutes is "playtime" and I can respect a quickie :3

partybooru responds:

thank you

[Birthday Gift for Quarl]

YES, best gift ever. Thank you Garden <3

Bleak-Creep responds:

You're welcome! Happy birthday!

[DRUGS ARE BADASS]

I did drugs once. I still do drugs but I also used to do drugs too. Lovely colors Sage, that smoke trail is something special. This would make a unique album or CD sleeve. The font edging the image border, chefs kiss*

[sunlight]

These colors are amazing, the style is gorgeous. I don't see anything worth critiquing or nit-picking. I love those kaleidoscopic lens flares noticable on top of the plant material. This image pops out of my screen <3

sylvrn responds:

awww thank you!

[🐞portrait🐞]

Ladybugs, an awkward spirit animal that have followed me though a career in landscaping. I respect your taste in aphid control but also your nightmares. Dreams have a way with taking mundane things and turning them into chaos. My fiance recently dreamed that someone was trying to steal t1-11 panels off the side of our house, we did our own renovations last summer. We live an hour outside of society, off grid and powered by solar. We have no neighbors. Who in their right mind would drive an hour in the dark through the San Juan forest and risk getting their car stuck in the snow for some cheap siding panels? Nightmare robbers, that's who. Sleep terrorists.

Love the old-timey photo filter going on with your illustration. The lady bugs pop in comparison to the portrait. I'm not sure if the visual elements come together in a manner I find compelling but the subject matter is a blast. I would have slapped another lady bug somewhere close to the bottom to spread out that hot red a little bit, move the eyes around more? Sorry to nit-pick the number of beetles, you obviously have skill and an inventive conceptual approach. I just have an OCD for writing long winded, rambling crits. Forgive me sylvrn D:

Edit: a small fix might focus on that black negative space the ladies are crawling out of? A textured backboard, parchment or knit might look right? That negative space fights with the black on the bugs for supremacy. A little color in there might look good :)

sylvrn responds:

thank you! those are all good points—all things I tried to fix while I working on the piece, but couldn't get quite right. I think it was a matter of poor planning or inexperience, but I want to tackle this drawing again someday to work out the kinks.