Jazza's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Somebody Call a Locksmith]

Wow this is very cool! You should totally submit more art to newgrounds, I'd love to see what else you come up with. I've added you to my favorites so I can see when you upload new artwork. The composition of the image and how the characters are interacting looks great, and the abundance of chains add a lot of interest to the piece. Keep up the good work, and thanks for sharing!

MissColleenJay responds:

Thank you so much for the review, Jazza! :) I really learned a lot from your Flash Tutorials on YT.

Drawing and coloring the chains took HOURS, haha. I lack practice with background and environment elements, so I'm trying to put more effort into them so I can learn. Thanks again!

[True Selves]

Oooh neat! I like the little trick you pulled off in making the hand claw the side of the website like that, very clever ;) You painting is very effective, good use of colors and framing. The glows on the demon chick are cool too. I can't think of much wrong with it, perhaps it could use a more interesting environment. Overall a good job! Keep it up and thanks for sharing!

HappyPlue responds:

Thanks a lot for the review, means a lot!

[Love And War]

Very good work! Her proportions and pose are well executed, I am particularly impressed with how you've done the multicolor glow. I assume you duplicated your color layers and blurred them behind your main picture? I'd never thought to do something like that, very neat. If anything I'd recommend you make her face a little more slender, and she seems to have a slight under bite, but that aside this is something you should be very proud of! Keep it up, and thanks for sharing :)

ZaXo-KenIchi responds:

Thank you so much XD

Yes indeed, the glow behind her is simply the color layers with a heavy Gaussian Blur effect. I also used the same effect (to a MUCH lesser strength) on the lineart, to try and make it softer, blending the glow in with her. I was originally going to do a high contrast glow, as if she was in a dark room, and the sun was shining brightly from a window, but it didn't seem to make sense with her color scheme... and I'm not sure how to create such an effect anyway :P

The facial proportions are something that's more of a stylistic decision of mine; it tends to give the character a bit younger, and more innocent of a feel. But I definitely see what you mean, and will keep it in mind in the future for sure.

Thanks again for the review :)

[Piplup]

Like the bottom reviewer mentioned, it's simple, but nice and cute! Your line work is very very clean and crisp which helps when drawing cute small characters. The colors are also well formed, the shading is simple and minimal, but it works! Keep going and you'll always improve, try challenging yourself and drawing this character on different angles, doing different things, in different places. Thanks for sharing!

GumDisease responds:

No sir, thank you for the review. :D
I will get to work on that right now!

[Game of thrones - Robb Stark]

Looking great! I love game of thrones so you have my thumbs up immediately haha. Your drawing is very solid, the character(s) are clearly defined and are proportioned well. The only thing I notice that i'll comment on which could improve the image, is the shading of the characters. Its done well, don't get me wrong, your colors and where you add shodow are perfect, what I mean is, there's two well known approaches to shading, cell shading and gradient. In cell shading, we have colors that clearly start and stop at certain points, with solid areas of shadow, in the gradient style, the colors merge into each others darks and lights and create an overall flow. In this image you seem to have gone half way between both. I feel like the gradient from dark to light is a little too immediate, to the point it almost looks cell shaded, but loses the dimension you might have kept if you went with a gradient through the whole object. I hope that makes sense. Overall you've done very well! Oh on last thing, the shadow on the text on the left is a little too strong and can make the text confusing to read. as a general rule of thumb I make shadows on that kind of thing around 30% opacity, it's easier to understand visually that way. Nice work, thanks for sharing!

Sirrolandproduction responds:

I understand everything you say and I really appreciate your advice because that will make in future drawings correct those failures.

Thank you very much for coming by and leave your comments

[Ichigo VS Ulquiorra]

Very coold drawing! The solidity of your lines and expressions on the characters are done really well. The framing feels like it could be a little lower to capture the intensity more in the middle of the picture, and the lines feel like they could really be darker and intensity the image that much more, but what you have here is looking pretty strong so far, thanks for sharing :)

xhushx responds:

Thx for your response i really appreciate your advise i'll put it in mind

[Regular Show - Thomas working]

I like the style here, it looks slick and solid. Your use of lighting and shadow works well, and the character has a cute style about him. Some of the shading in the ground seems a little rushed and unbalanced, its barely noticable, but it looks like you shaded the ground with the cloud filter in photoshop, which could potentially come across as lazy. I'd think shading it more like how you did the tree in the background would work well. All over, a great pic, thanks for sharing :)

JKSSN responds:

Thanks Jazza.
But you know what's funny?
I had no intention on shading the grass.
I didnt actually mean to put the cloud filter with the grass.
I just found it out accidentally when I added multiply on the grass.
And decided to leave it there. xD

[Deadpool?]

This is looking good! Your use of shading in the red areas is well done! Your anatomy and proportions could use a little work but that all comes with time and practice. Nice choice of subject matter too I might say ;) Keep it up and thanks for sharing!

Rex1234ify responds:

Thank you Jazza! Yeah with the anatomy, this was before I started studying it, I just made up the anatomy for this as I went.

[Dream City]

This is really simplistic but perfect for what it's doing. the proportions and style of the central figure are great and very fluid, and while the city in front of him is simple in its presentation, the detail and intricacy of how its all laid out is painstakingly intricate and well executed. Awesome work, thanks for sharing!

ChewyHanSolo responds:

Cheers for the great critique :D

[I Painted a cake!]

Whoa you totally had me fooled! I thought you trolled me and just sent me a photo of a cake. Nice work, you obviously achieved what you set out to do, haha! I like this, there are noticable parts of it where you can clue into it being a painting due to slight lack of detail but overall this is cool and quirky, good job! It would have been a good practice session for painting from life. Thanks for sharing

FaKanza responds:

Again Jazza thank you for your review :)