Daru925's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Pixel Pink Panther]

I had a pink panther plush.

LexRodent responds:

Neat !
I had a figurine, but it got lost on a house-moving.

[Farmland]

Relaxing picture.
Are you a living lighting engine or something?
The color choice and lighting are superb.
No kidding, Ive been spending the last twenty minutes looking at all the incredible details when it's just "a bunch of pixels" ahah.
I do 3D and use engines like vray, but i especially like pixel art because its a fantastic tool to learn lighting in my opinion, because of the limitations.
Really inspiring.
Aside from practice and personal skills, if you know any good learning ressources to share about pixel art, let me know^^

Xorberax responds:

Thanks. I might be a lighting engine. You just motivated me to make more stuff like this! :)

Unfortunately, I don't know of any tutorials.

[Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki) Portrait]

"This isn't very good" said no one ever.

rainwalker007 responds:

lol Thank you im glad u liked it.

[Yeshua VS Sinterklass]

I like the inmate look for santa haha.

This reminded me of this classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_pffqVB3tM

LexRodent responds:

If I tell you that video had nothing to do with this, I'd be lying.

[3D Casio Keyboard]

Pretty good for a low poly.
You might want to bevel some edges, depending of the LOD this mesh will be used for.
Add some normal map, or bump map maybe?

jenninexus responds:

Some good points! I'll try for some bump mapping. It was rendered with Vray Toon in Max so when I tried beveling the edges, they were too thick-black lines but will definitely consider it for the game down the line when we have more content compiled for it. :-D Thx for stopping by!

[South park guys]

ummfuff pfuummu hmmufuupuuuuf!

LexRodent responds:

Nice, the Kenny seal of approval. :D

[Not a rip-off]

Cannot unsee the cute blue pokemon thing with sharp teeth and yellow eyes.

LexRodent responds:

Now neither can I.

[A special birthday gift]

Superbe, toutes ces couleurs!
The cake is a little overkill, dont get sick^^

Troisnyx responds:

Promis, je ne vais pas en manger trop ! ^_^'

[Two Halves of the Same Kind]

Nice!
I know the characters from smashbros game, i haven't played Icarus on NES.
Keep using and developping your colouring method, nowadays, everything tends to be vectorized and clean, which i find boring sometimes.

[Savo(u)ring the Start]

Youpi! Tout le monde au cimetière!

Not sure what you mean with "minus subtitle", so my comment below might not apply
- imho, the title and signature clash too much with the rest, just a little too bright.
I'd like to see them blending more (like a watermark but not fading as much as the background shadows, but not RGB 255-255-255 colgate pure white either, to keep the mysterious and dramatic feeling)-

Otherwise, it's a nice little cemetery i totally wouldn't want to visit at night :D
I'm sure it's haunted by ghosts of newgrounders.

The stone material looks like a clever use of filter. Or maybe a custom brush? Anyway it's pretty convincing and fits with the drawing style.

SuperUltra nitpicking:
- The right side of the crack on the "in loving memory" tombstone should be thicker according to perspective)
- The wooden cross in the should be visible in the gap beewteen the tombstones, a line seems to be missing, or maybe... it's floating in the air and.... AHHHHH!

Troisnyx responds:

Minus subtitle meant that the cover was lacking its subtitle: "The First Dramatic Anthology from the Writers of Newgrounds," which @Tremax was going to do in simple font. Sketchbook Express, to my knowledge, has no font input.

The stone was indeed a filter. On that note, the filter did also render the signature into #FFFFFF when it should have been something along the lines of #B0B0B0 -- really couldn't help it there.....

Point taken about the cracks. Also, the cross which seems to be "floating in the air" actually has its stem jutting out from behind the gravestones, but it's not evident. Although floating in the air might be a good effect for it...^_-