UrnSudden's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Skeleton Army Recruitment - Week 1]

Love the lighting on the magic-users, particularly bottom-right, lotta life in these poses too! Makes me wanna see them animated

WURMxFUD responds:

Thanks! It's a fun challenge trying to consistently show character/distinct design in such a common trope. Definitely would like to animate some of these, since they're just sitting right there...

[Maria meets Marianna]

Love the scene lighting choices and texturing, reminds me of snes era box art (Mario RPG, DKC esque)
Though not in an unskilled dated kind of way, more deliberately stylized

[Help! I have become a wired device!]

I hate when that happens.

Not as strong in surreality as your dream eater piece, that one's sick as hell, but the cheeseburger tells me this one's to be taken less seriously--I love it though!
And if it weren't for this one I wouldn't have seen that one

[The Crucifixion of Patrick Star redux]

He deserved it, tbh

[Elden Ring Rennala Boss Fight]

Pixel art fascinates me, in principle it's the same as any visual art form but in practice I feel like it's more in line with animation than people let on-- That being "the suggestion of xyz" rather than rendering it all in detail. Much like how in animation your lower framerate dictates how extreme smear frames are to convey the idea of movement, lower resolution dictates suggestion of higher detail elements like faces and whatnot, but I feel like the beauty is in the human element of it. Cos you can TOTALLY downscale an image to 128x128 pixels, posterize it to 3 colors to simulate older tech's limited pallets and dither it to hell, but it wouldn't carry the same feel.

Speaking of dithering! Love the choice to do it around the moon and sky, feels deliberate juxtaposed against the slightly blued tone in the characters' reflection on the water, could've gone the tonal shift route because we live in the future but it wouldn't have felt the same.

ALSO LOVE THE SUBJECT MATTER, 100%'d ELDEN RING, GORGEOUS BOSS FIGHT CHOICE, Would've gone with Malenia myself, then burned myself out on rendering the roots in the background and never finished the piece though.

Thisisgevorkart responds:

Thank you!
Yeah the reason why I love making pixel art is that you can be very limited on a color palette, no true sense of blending, and no organic lines and forms can be made compared to a traditional sense of making art. So with much restrictions you have is I think makes you play around with creativity a bit more. Plus it feels way more like eye-candy. I would have gone with Malenia, but i still haven't reached to that part yet, I'm currently in between the Capital Sewers part or the Radhan Boss Fight. Either I eventually would like to do all of it, or every moment in Soulsborne series.

[nintendogs]

Dog Ahead

[UNBORN]

Love it! Reminds me of Francis Bacon, but if it were pushed a few more notches into realism. It's always tough to tell with pieces like this if localized distortion in proportion are a product of the piece itself or if it's a mistake in proportion. Nonetheless, the collarbone area has something going on that bothers me a bit (Not in the good way the rest of the piece does)
But everything else about this is spot on! WEOOOH!!WEF

jungmeister responds:

lol thnax

[HEY COMIC]

Holy crap, dude, is this deer suppressing.

[Unlucky 7]

I love how you separated the hair from the face with a line of the background color, it gives it some dimension and some silkscreen-esque character. However it's hard to distinguish depth, the hatching seems inarticulate. It could benefit from a more definitive light source, or more development of levels of light.

[Politicaly Correct Man]

Words cannot describe-- good lord YES!
This
AH!
If there was a "Politically Correct Man" comic series, and the gist of the plot was essentially this scenario, over and over again, I would pay good money for it bound in paper.