post-intellectual's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Loss And Destruction]

simple but effective. good contrast. looks like an audacity databend to me. i wonder what the original image was..

HummusGod responds:

Thank you so much! I don't know if it's a faux pas to say I use audacity lol but its my favorite form of databending. I got really into it a few years back and I have been improving my methods for a while now. So, the background is a photo I took at an abandoned dormatory and I manipulated the raw data taking chunks and displacing them in various places. I then color shifted it to a nice purple. The Foreground is a staff photo I was a part of. I took the silhouettes and layered them over a previous work I made (P sure it was the one titled "Despair" lol) for some good textures. Layered everything and adjusted the colors in Paint.net.

[Trash Compactor]

stop it, you're gonna make me want to spend time drawing!

curves like that don't seem easy to pull off. nor does that level of detail. i have a feeling you deliberately went for black-and-white and it wasn't down to laziness...

Chevrium responds:

thank you! and if my drawings make you want to draw than please do. i so much prefer hearing that I've inspired people as opposed to those who say that they get intimidated out of drawing by seeing my stuff.

also, as far as the medium of choice, I thought about it long and hard and honestly it actually is a bit of laziness on my part lol. or maybe that's too hard of a word? practicality also works. I love pen and ink stylisticly and I'm proud of the stuff I did using it, but the fact of the matter is that I would do all of my traditional work in ballpoint, graphite, and coloured pencil if it wasn't for the fact that it results in drawings that take 50+ hours to create, and I simply do not have enough time in a week to commit every idea that pops into my head to the most meticulous detail.

[White Rabbit]

an unusual and inventive take on the world of alice in wonderland; i'm saying that with just this image to go by. the somehow dull-yet-bold face caught my attention a lot; i had to give it a second look!

Hyptosis responds:

Thank you! :D

[Brainglitch]

i could definitely stare at this for hours; i hope for your sake that it didn't take so long to make! perfect for an album cover too.

LexRodent responds:

Glad you enjoy it.
It took a while to make, but wasn't too much to burn my eyes.

[Ying Yang]

brilliant forms and great colour scheme choice; greyscale is a safe bet for this kind of art given that it draws attention to the particular aspects of the forms. i'd personally throw in some coarse noise as an overlaid texture

PurpleAmelie responds:

Thank you a lot for your feedback!

[dead planets 3]

album-cover-tier; i could stare at this for hours. if only the dynamic range were a little greater for the foreground

BinaryDood responds:

yeah maybe the main planet should have been full white