post-intellectual's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Aztec Thief]

kinda hard to see what's going on here because of the colours and the natural noise associated with the pencils you used, but you made the outlines of two of the characters thicker so that others can tell them apart. the visual distortion induced by the shapes you used confuses me, and i'm not sure if you wanted that.

however, i like the variation in how much you coloured each part - it's halfway between completely messy and glowing. the shapes nicely vary too.

(edit: since you intended the mess, i'll give you an extra half star.)

Firedragon4321 responds:

Thank you, the messy part was kinda intentional though.

[starhand]

BELTEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRR!

crunchiest reds i've seen in a long time. fleshy and industrial colouring on the hand. messy lines everywhere.

iamtheangrysons responds:

tytyyy

[Irresponsible Show Of Force]

is this grime movie poster?! it's so janky and detailed that i swear it came from a time capsule. are you stuck in 2009? can you take me back with you for a bit?

mouldy green rippling along some dark and watery red, cross-hatched halftoning overlaid on top of everything apart from the text (which itself uses a stupid font that's stupidly warped), an eye staring at me in the background, a human-looking figure in what looks like a variation on riot gear with their eyes obscured by a cloudy ripple... you're crazy AND I FUCKING ENVY THAT.

are you gonna accompany this with some future garage and some videos of you vandalising a train like an absolute chad?

PreschoolDropout responds:

vandalism seems like an interesting art direction if not somewhat impractical.

[Memory Management]

i don't know whether to call that texturing dithering, cross-hatcing or dithering. it's a horrible mess of all three and i love it! definitely makes me think of a hazy memory or two...

PreschoolDropout responds:

Horrible mess is more than appropriate naming wise.

[System Failure]

really nice enasona drawing. charlie's giving a whole new meaning to 'forking' in software lingo - she's literally splitting up!

loads of detail everywhere - from 'leave' repeating over static in the baground to the blood dripping out everywhere. the contrast isn't too strong in the overall image, but that clashes with some of the foreground details, which i think you wanted just to add a 'GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY YOU ANNOYING GLITCH' feel.

if you wanna do some more software gore, i suggest looking at real glitches and bugs in software. they're incredibly varied - text often cuts off abruptly, icons don't render properly, some numbers don't make any sense, and there can be a hell of a lot of smearing. understanding what leads to the errors happening and the different ways in which errors can happen (from hardware faults to borked programs) might give you an insight into what can go wrong and how you can exploit these issues for artistic gain.

maskedteatime responds:

thank you so much for the kind words and the advice 🥰 i definitely wanna try more of the software gore type with charlie so i'll keep note of these things, again, thank you so much !!

[Vrebnas]

did you want minimalism? well, you did it. loving the smooth as fuck outlines and the shading. the crude and fleshy approximations of leaves does nicely. for me this piece of art is like a bombing of the boundary between chaotically surrealism and realistic still-life - it looks a little like a plant due to the shapes, but fuck knows what it really is!

Timepool responds:

Wow, thank you!

[amother abstract]

BOREDOM WORKS. SOMETIMES.

great use of different kinds and scales of details - some scanlines here, and some ghostly dark strokes there. that warped face looks nightmarish. that'll scare the crap out of some kids.

doomsdayz responds:

thank you oh my god :oD !!!

[Lovecraftian Entity]

MAYBE THE FUCKER JUST DOESN'T WANT TO BE NAMED.

you nailed the lovecraftian aspect you wanted. dark as fuck, and it looks like it's some cosmic monstrosity that's hiding away in some nebula. imagine seeing that terrifying thing outside the window of a spaceship!

SlenderEnderGuy responds:

If I was an alien and I saw that thing, I'd piss whatever I'm wearing

[hyperdimensional pasu]

i really ought to use blender again. i once used it a while back for some abstract crap. I like this, with its varying levels of detail and all the glowing curves that weave in and out of each other. the dashes of noise in some of the strokes are a nice touch.

pInkmoth responds:

i use photo-editing software for this effect, starting with a render i made in blender. XOR an image with a gaussian blurred version of itself; blender can't do that operation for complicated techy reasons.

[Lords RNG (The Better Version)]

so much going on here. one very narrow band of hues just for extra creepiness. chaotic cross-hatching and shading. you nailed the whole 'single bright light with loads of dark shit in the background' thing! i even see a wheel of misfortune towards the left of the centre of the image.

EyepodNation responds:

That wheel is actually "N" itself. Alot less human in behavior than the more incohesive "R" in the fire. You could also spot N's hands as well