Thetageist's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Peace]

Really cute! I love it!

[The Past...]

The line art once again looks decent to me, and I like the technique you used to draw the flowers. My advice about the background in "WOA" also applies to the one on the left, but not as much. Otherwise, nice work! I'm interested to take a look at the story once I have time!

LapisTheWolf responds:

<3 tysm :")

[WOA]

The line art looks pretty good, aside from a little bit of sketchiness - sometimes the sketchy lines get in the way of the aesthetic appeal of the drawing, and sometimes they don't. The background also looks a bit odd from a perspective standpoint, like it's too tilted upwards, but I'm not entirely sure how I'd recommend you solve that. I'd also like it if the particle effects around the hearts stood out from the background a little bit more. Other than that, nice work!

LapisTheWolf responds:

tysm!

[Penguins]

This is hilarious and I love the designs you made!

[Papyrusssss]

This drawing is cute and I like the atmosphere! A few tips: I feel like the tilted perspective of the drawing is a little bit strange. The scarf looks a bit stiff, like it's standing up on its own - look at reference images for how scarves generally look. Also, I like that you're using text and speech bubble lines that will stand out from the background, but I'm still not entirely sure about this one. It might be beneficial to experiment a bit with different styles of speech bubbles to see which works best. Otherwise, nice work! The light effects in the background are cool!

LapisTheWolf responds:

TY :)

[Pixel Day 2021]

Wow! Congratulations on making the very top of the front page!

I love the adorable little animation with the Tankmen and the wisps, and the woodland environment of this picture! Very magical and relaxing.

Just a question - how do you do these pixel artworks? Do you start out with a sketch or plan, or do you just jump right in with the pixel drawing tool? You and other pixel artists I follow have given me the inspiration to possibly try making pixel art again, and I need some tips :)

maruki responds:

Thank you for your kind words! Yes, I always start with a sketch, sometimes more than one is needed, and then I scan it and pixel it by hand using Aseprite.
Please do so! Making art because you want to is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself.

[Party animals]

Happy birthday! *PFEEP!*

This is adorable and I love it. It's amazing that you can make these huge pixel art drawings and then you also have small icons that still look so good despite the lower amount of detail! And the color changing backgrounds look so smooth! Great work!

Ioruko responds:

Thanks a lot, as always a pleasure to read your comments!

[Lets do this]

I love the contrast between the blue and red/orange on the two sides of the picture! Nice work!

[YOURE NOT TRYING HARD ENOUGH]

If anyone here needs help, I will give this guy a flying punch in the face.

Jokes aside, sadness is okay and a normal part of life. It's not healthy to be sad 100% of the time, but it's equally unhealthy, if not worse, to expect to be happy 100% of the time, or to expect long-term mental health problems to go away instantly if you just "try hard enough". Getting better takes a lot of time, effort, self-monitoring, and even strategizing, in many cases with help from a therapist or someone else who knows a great deal about how mental health works. But even a small positive difference is worth it. Take care of yourselves, y'all.

And as for the art itself: I quite like how you wrote the speech bubble, as well as the menacing red filter and the yellow replaced with red in Sol's design. I've probably said this already, but I should try using filters like this in artworks.

anewworldfool responds:

:] he sure is a dude. also ty lol i like slapping filters on stuff B]

[SECRET SANTA: Klowncar]

Just like that other one I just reviewed - this totally looks like a pre-boss fight screen! Complete with some rockin' music in the background!