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

[Other Dimension Sketch]

clouds so thick they look solid and cities so weird they look like an architect's nightmare. really good chaotic shading and nice contrast between the yellow, pink and black.

[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.

[Friends from Gone VHSs]

liking the subtle distortions everywhere here - from the blue stain invading from the bottom right to the breaks in the parallel lines. two towers that look like columns of smoke in a badly-made physics simulation game.

[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 !!

[vr stuff]

i don't know if you wanted the glare from the lighting (towards the top right corner) to add anything, but if not, you should definitely try to exploit glares like that for the sake of the art, even if it changes how others experience the piece.

the strokes vary a bit, particularly the white crap near the middle. i like that, since it shows that you bothered to show some skill, especially when compared with the rest of the strokes (which aren't so chaotic). it's a warm dreamy feel that wouldn't be out of place in a cartoon movie flashback. i love it.

[We All Want to Talk]

are those eye bags or ribs? the distortion in this cartoon confuses me, and i think you wanted people to be confused. so good job on that!

also, loving the slight chaos in this one and the filthy square-ish background.

[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!