Quarl's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Birthday Gift for Quarl]

YES, best gift ever. Thank you Garden <3

Bleak-Creep responds:

You're welcome! Happy birthday!

[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.

[Dei - Character Sheet]

I showed you one bloody-skeleton-princess-ballerina drawing and this is what happens? It can't be a coincidence that I was recently talking to someone about amputee drawings, I feel like I owe you commission money now >:D

Bleak-Creep responds:

Haha! I recently realized that all of my characters are really down to earth, so I figured I should make some kind of wild fantasy design for once and she needed to be SCARY. (And I love body horror, so it needed to have that too.) She can slowly grow her body parts back after losing them, but most of the time she’s some kind of amputee.

[Garfie girl]

But how does she feel about Mondays?

IkaroKruz responds:

Probably she doesn't care, she hates Mondays for the roleplay

[Art Trade with Bbii]

Gotta agree with P-PAMda, those colors and textures are elaborate. It doesn't seem to matter what style you are trying to get across, you always make things with complete attention to detail. Love the bubbles that imply we are underwater :D

Bleak-Creep responds:

Thanks! I feel like I generally work best when I focus on individual elements and work outwards from that. Somewhere along the way, things eventually start to fall into place. Gotta make sure when you zoom in you can't see the cracks!

[FNAF:SB Rainbow]

Amazing colors and characters. What kind of music do they play? Please say death metal.

Mimny responds:

Oh- they are characters from the franchise Five Nights at Freddy's, last year on november/december, their new game got released "Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach" and I loved it
You can see the intro here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1O1-HR7-Qs

And I can recommend you a gameplay of the WHOLE game by Markiplier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClQ-ymoXJZc&list=PL3tRBEVW0hiDL09lO0xjKEix84OY27xet&index=86

[Tikkie On the Waterfront]

It's a mudfish, he has a cup, this is so cute. The water is really beautiful. Everything has dense color and that line work is pro. Naturally I lack context, I have no idea what this means to you but I love it for what it is. It's very well done :')

RickSteubens responds:

it's our great-great-great-great-...-grandpa Tiktaalik contemplating life, just wanted to draw something cute to practice painting since ive gotten a bit rusty!

[pink slime]

Out of all the glass you've uploaded, this is my fav. I don't know enough to speak to the technical skill, I just really like the colors and shapes. I know I ragged on the presentation in another upload but I like "production" images that shows the process a little :3

carljohnson responds:

this is pink slyme from trautman art glass, im getting my hands on more expensive and harder to come by colors, rosaline from greasy glass is one i think youd like a lot if you enjoyed this. I really want to try golden ruby from molten aura, so expensive and whales clear it out when it drops....

[pink cadillac fumed clear wrap & rake]

I love glass, went to Alfred U but never took advantage of the glory holes. Stuck to digital media, enjoyed some foundry classes, studied music... my fiance is much more knowledgeable about glass blowing. I would love to see some of your work on a cleaner display surface. These uploads all come off like a Facebook dump. Get a couple of white cloths, some lighting, a pedestal... give your glass the photoshoot it deserves :')

carljohnson responds:

oh yea lol i thought only i noticed that, from before i moved into my house just you wait people thanks for the review! softglass is cool, too big and theatrical for me personally. respect.