Alegroth's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Cheetah]

I am superglad that I opened the highres and could see all the fur textures and how well the follow the body. Top notch and I would love to know how you did that!

In regards to the image I like the charecter and the pose as it gives a sense of movement, i.e. that she's flying through the air. I just wish that her left foot had been a bit more angled towards the center of the piece to change her direction more towards us. I guess that means angling the foot down to the left. Otherwise the anatomy and style of the piece looks great. The only thing I'd like to see improved are the teeth as they look a bit wonky at the moment, but as I know how difficult teeth are I will not fault you for it. Further, I think the shadows might be a bit dark in places, for instance her left shoulder, which adds to the toony style I think. (These points are motivation for 4.5/5)

Regardless, a cool image. I could see her being a nice counter to Black Panther or some other hero in the Marvel or DC universe. Very nice.

jago1996 responds:

My problems with the piece are just a few anatomical and posing mistakes. Thank you for pointing out the teeth I definitely neglected them. I got a treat for you. I made a video of the process of this piece. Hopefully it sheds some light on what you'd like to know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAAACcAqNxI

[The mad lady]

I love the insanity of the piece, the dark figure picking on her shoulder and which I guess is the source of her madness? The metaphore is really nice as you have objectified the fear that is sometimes the root-cause of such an illness. The balance then also of the dark shape of against the light background and the angle on which he sits is also very nice because it gives depth to the image almost as if it was painted in a 3 point perspective. I just now also noticed the embrella or whatever it is he is holding, covering her in darkness. Also a very strong metaphore. Severly cool. Additionally I really like the maddening charecter. At first I thought it was a little, almost dragonesk, charected as the tie looked like a tongue coming out of a white mouth. Then I noticed that it was a tie and then I saw the charecter as you've intended. Yet I kept falling back to my view of him which is cool because then he is sort of a man and a monster at the same time. Very nice.

Overall execution, well of course the woman could have been painted more realistically (Motivation for 4.5/5), but I am not sure that would have suited the painting as it is more about the fear and madness itself rather than her and the demon on her shoulder sort of speak. I did however mention the perspective and wished the whole piece had been like that, i.e. stretched up towards the left corner. However, that is more my subjective view than anything else :) Otherwise I can't really critique it, its a very nice image that will look great on your wall.

Great work :)

TheNutellaQueen responds:

Thanks for the critique ^^ Also I think you read in more in the pice's metaphor's. To tell you the truth I didn't think about them at all - only wanted to convey a feeling of madness. (I'm a bit stressed at the moment and needed to went) The thing on the hat was to be some qind of companion to her, as she was as far from normality as it was.

[Greek Traditional Dancing Festival]

Great piece, not quite sure how it fits with dancing but I guess the people you made it for get the reference :) I'll just stick to commenting on the image as is.

First I think the composition is great, well structured and there is clear differentation between the charecters achieved through good colorchoices. I also like the rendering of the charecters as you can really tell that they are from southern europe, both through the shape of their faces and the cloathing. Very nice.

The only critique I can really give is that the woman in the bottom left looks a bit yellow in comparison to the rest (Key motivation for 4.5/5). Everything else, even though quality could be improved, follows a common estetic and everything holds more or less the same quality, as such it doesn't bother me.

So, its a nice image. Hope the dance was fun as well. Cheers

EvanScale responds:

Thanks for the great feedback.
The people in the image wear traditional clothing, which comes form specific locations around Greece. The dances of the event also derive from these locations. So they asked me to research the clothing of these specific traditions.
The style i did this piece, was also a request. They wanted a pretty loose depiction, with no details whatsoever.
I agree with you about the woman in the bottom left is kinda off. Messes up the balance a bit. This must have occurred during the final lighting additions i did.

Overall, i know its not my best work, but i had fun working on it since it is was a kind of experiment for me too.
Thanks a lot for the informative feedback :D

[tsuyu asui]

I saw this and I was like... huh. That's cool but, wait, wha? Which is not a bad thing as it got me thinking. My first reaction was that she was a cool superhero but I recognized her somehow and started thinking about a reference but then I couldn't come up with any so I settled for this being a novel charecter and then saw the mix of sort of westernish shading on the body with the very anime-ish hface. However, you've managed to merge the two really well with the shadows and linework. Also, you've given her a cool and unique estetic with the big hair-bow. Havn't seen that before and I think it looks awesome. I also like the frog attributes of her uniform with the big ands and feet and of course, the pose is great.

To give some critism one of the reasons for my very first comment was because of the mountains in the background? Might be me not knowing the reference, but why is she there? On the on hand this intreages me further, on the other why there? Perhaps if there had been a menecing looking villain headquarter or something there it had been easier to picture why she's there. The second grief I have is that the tongue is uneavenly shaped. In the second bend it's thicker than in the third, which is a shame as the proportions of the rest of the image, as far as I can tell, are spot on (Motivation for 4.5/5).

Overall an interesting and, I guess, novel charecter. I really like it. Great work.

[Phantom]

Instantly recognized the artist even though I've only commented once before. Another great piece! Reminds me of Anubis of ancient Egypt with the sort of wolfhead and the neckpiece remenisent of the old Pharoes. Not sure that's the estetic you were going for but I like it.

As the other image I commented upon it surely follows your own estetic and art and I think its awesome. Just a tad dark and abstract but yet rooted in reality somehow. It's a fine balance to thread but you do it nicely.

Also, the fact that you work in a traditional medium yet there are not brushstrokes! The coloring is super solid and it implies (after seeing other traditional artworks on this site) that you have mastered how to do solid linework. Hence, drawing lines all the way from start to finish. A skill that should not be underestimated.

Cool work regardless, hope to see more :)

TheChessPlayer responds:

Thank you for the comment! It means a lot for me! I like the ancient Egypt but it wasn t intentional !

[Luca]

Cool charecter design. Recognizable yet novel in a sense with the bony external details, horns, etc. I also like how the colorsheme, especially with the eyes, make it so that it is not certain if he's a goodguy or badguy. He could be both. On the one hand he looks demonish, on the other, he looks quite tidy and although the facial expression is a bit on the darker side it could be sadness rather than evil or hate. Really perplexes me and makes me wounder who he is! Nice work.

Exceutionwise I like the estetic overall with the srt of cartoonish style. The pants and boots look great, so does the body overall. My quirk comes with the boony pieces that I think are a bit too bright and could have gotten some more shadow. Now there shapes are carried by the linework but I'd liked to see some more emphasis through shadows to make these pieces follow the charecter better. They are not, in places a b it flat, for instance on his left shoulder where just a small shadow at the top to separate the bony from skin had gone a long way (Motivation for 4/5 since its such a prominent part of the piece)

Otherwise a really nice concept and I like the purple shadow to break off from the black background. I just wished that you hadn't put it under his left foot but ended it just behind the foot to emphasize that he is standing on the ground, thereby planting him in a plane. Now he is a bit floaty as the shadow is shown underneath the shoe which is only possible if there was nothing there.

Great work, cool charecter, love'd to see more. Cheers.

ArchviIe responds:

Thank you very, very much for the critique. I appreciate it! I'll work harder to focus on the smaller details from now on.

[Bonehead]

Such an interesting style and coupled with almost flawless execution. The composition of the image is very interesting and I am intreaged by the story behind it. Why is the skeletion fighting? Who is in the back? Why is there such fear in the skeleton to the rights face? I love art that raises questions, especially like this one where there is so much detail to dance around a look at.

The perspective of the main sceleton in the foreground is really nice, that top down angle is something I'd love to master and you did it with a skeleton with all the complexity that comes from that! I'd say you'd pulled it off also, my only qwriks with it is that the ribcage on the right side seems a bit bloated. I think some of the lover ribs are too round or stick out too much? Further, don't the top ribs connect with the middlebone? However, that's artistic freedom I guess! :) However, I've also got a small issue with the left lower leg. The foreshortening seems a bit off and that the lower leg seems to be a bit too short (Motivation to 4.5/5)? Or the tighbone is too long? One of the two. I wished I was better at anatomy to give you a proper comment instead of me just pointing out that something might be wrong.

Regardless the piece is great! There is action, drama and it makes me wanna see the movie. Really cool and looking forward to seeing more.

sucho responds:

for the ribs not connecting- (i know he has eyes and a tongue) but i didn't include any cartilage with him which i >think< is part of what holds ribs together to the sternum. i thought, since its already supernatural having a living skeleton, i wanted him not to have any soft tissue other than eyes and tongue. anatomy was really hard without muscles! you can look up dynamic poses all the time, but hardly research about where their bones are in the pose as well.

i would like to do a picture soon of him with clothes/armor, and him before he was a skeleton. But maybe people would prefer not to know what he looks like?

[Astroskating]

Great image! captures the action and a sense of motion perfectly. The double-view (of sorts) with the kickup and the trick itself is also great and could easily become a nice T-shirt print I think. The use of a traditional medium is also nice and well executed even though there are a few lines on the charecter in the middle's legs and also the right backleg where it is noticable that you didn't complete the stroke, i.e. went all the way from the top to the bottom or vice versa (Motivation for 4.5/5). Thus adding a darker spot that disrupts the flow a bit. However that's just nitpicking as the overall execution is great. The proportions are good, the composition is excellent, and the design of the main charecter with that diving helmet is both odd and intreaging. Very nice! :)

personnotstudying responds:

Wow! Thanks! That means a lot <3

[ALIEN]

When I saw the thumbnail I did not expect this animation! Haha, so awesome! I love how you've taken the 8 bit (large pixels) minimalistic approach and still produced something with so much action, speed, and presence. The Alien fits perfectly with the gray lore and you can tell the handgesture right away. Further, the animationquality is great and I love the little swirl in the end as the ship speeds off again as it really adds to the acceleration effect. The minimalistic background is nice also even though I'd wished your put the right on the planed down to the left a bit more centered. Otherwise a really cool animation and I thank you for the surprise and the laugh :)

amenduhh responds:

Yea! I don't know how to change the thumbnail for a better visual. Thanks so much for your great comments! and I do agree about the bg as well. I had the same thought but I just went with it. I should listen to my brain and you!! Thanks so much for the lovely comment