Coop's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Wind-Tanken face]

A little too abstract

I'm not really a fan of this piece, as it screams to me of not very much effort. I am put in the mind of professional artists that get paid thousands of pounds in order to produce simply awful artworks, such as an untidy bedroom, which they then talked complete bollocks about for some time, while people who 'appreciate fine art' pander to them.

It's not even cloud-style drawings, where you can see different things appearing out of the image itself. I'm sorry to say I can't really see what you're on about with the face..

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TiberiumCrystalKutu responds:

Hmmm. I see...

[Black gold sculptue]

Wow, detailed

A nicely detailed piece that would have been so much better if it was an actual sculpture, as the title led me to believe. Not to worry though, as it certainly didn't disappoint too much to see this wonderful piece of work.

A nice mosaic styled background overlaid with either a stippled brush effect or a pseudo-Roman style of mosaic tiling. The image of the sculpture tries to look 3D, but isn't quite as apparent as it could be. The 'Goldstone Obsidian' look of the main material of this piece is a nice look, with the amount of 'string detail' in the rest of it.

I can certainly see shapes jumping out of the piece, particularly a ball of yarn to the left of centre and a little grinning imp at the lower right of centre. Good work.

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TiberiumCrystalKutu responds:

Thanks for this review. It is very accurate.

[The never-ending secret]

I'm not sure

So we've got what looks like an overgrown lawn with the added benefit of... I really couldn't make head nor tale of it.

What is it supposed to be? Some sort of light show? I think that I can see a vague outline of Optimus Prime in the lights that have been picked out there, but it's about as good as we'll get from my interpretations.

The black is just a "Goth's White" and needs to be covered where possible - this piece is a vague abstract at best and requires a lot more work to at least convey what you are trying to make in the piece.

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TiberiumCrystalKutu responds:

Thanks for this review.

[Space Core]

Space orange!

This piece just reminds me of a huge interstellar orange - the three curved lines just seem to make me aware of giant segments that could be pulled out and devoured by interstellar beings that like eating rocks.

For me, the structure of this planet is a little too regular. Perhaps pass over it a few more times and add some more mountainous regions and perhaps some craters, for example. This body has been in space for some time and in order for it to look more natural, it will have been peppered with things from the depths of space.

Does it have a liquid surface cover, such as water on Earth? If so, lakes will be visible, plus whole continents should emerge, dependant upon how much liquid coverage there is. Perhaps cloud cover could become a factor as well.

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TiberiumCrystalKutu responds:

Nice review.

[Joyful Chaos]

Roses on green leaves

An interesting abstract piece that reminds me of blood splattered across leaves in a wood. The scene of a murder, an accident, or something totally innocent? That remains to be seen.

I think that this metaphor is slightly stretched, as the red does not follow a uniform pattern as it would with blood splatters, which is a shame, as I can certainly see the skeletal structure underneath the leaves. Possibly a shot of some woodland and they could actually be tree branches and trunks, but it's a little difficult to tell.

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TiberiumCrystalKutu responds:

My inspiration was not a crime scene.
Thanks!

[Black Desert]

Good detail

A nice simple colour scheme and some great work with the shading certainly adds a few dynamics to this image that can only be described as abstract. The dust cloud, or sun burst effect in the top right is nice.

Then it's just a question of what you interpret the three lines as - personally, I've seen them as either go-faster stripes on some sort of being or vehicle moving right to left in a very short time, or claws from something much more sinister.

How does everyone else see it? You decide.

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HeavyTank responds:

Totally awesome review, you interpreted the pic exactly as l wanted you to, l am really surprised that this actually worked...thanks!

[The Eye]

Intricate detail

Well, this piece is certainly a large canvas that you've been working on with a plethora of bright colours in a wonderful spray effect. It does kind of resemble a bird's head - something tropical from the jungles of South America, most likely.

The detail once again can only be appreciated by zooming in, but at least you advised the masses this time :P

I love the way that what looks like a crest flares out to the left of the picture, behind the large eye - that's probably what gave me the impression about the bird. How long did it take you to draw something so intricately abstract, yet so detailled enough to bring through flashes of inspiration within the viewer.

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HeavyTank responds:

Nice review, thanks a lot!

[Biological Catastrophe]

Interesting

This piece MUST BE VIEWED IN FULL SIZE to be properly appreciated. Tell the masses this in your comments, as you really can't see much until you press the full size button!

Right, that little rant over, I can certainly say that this piece is quite dark and I can see where you came to the conclusion about the name from - the shapes within do look like the cultivation of a culture of some sort of bacteria. The one main issue I have is how dark this piece is - making it slightly lighter will be able to give it such an improvement to the overall piece.

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HeavyTank responds:

Thanks a lot.

[Cliff Top Perch]

You''l get the hang of the coals

To be honest, I wasn't holding out too much expectation for this, when you said that you'd be using the charcoals for a picture. A couple of detail issues that presented themselves would be the front legs and the wings, where the knee / elbow join isn't very prominent and there doesn't seem to be any bone structure in the wing itself, which I would have liked to see.

The background looks a little simplistic, with almost childish looking mountains, being just single triangles jutting up out of the page. A few more rogue angles here and there would certainly help it to look more natural.

The sky looks better, with the stars being placed in a random pattern - did you try to recreate any night sky here, or just place them where you see fit?

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EchoRun responds:

Yes, the background is a bit plain. Partly because I was terrified of wrecking what I had already done with this. I think a bit of practice will cure that.

As for the wings, I did try to put some structure to them but not too much. As with bats, I tend to show less wing structure when the wing is at rest because a wing in flight or simply extended stretches the wing membrane showing of the frame of the wing. At rest, the lose and folded membrane hides this structure more. However, I don't think the scan did justice to this, as this is even more subtle then the original was.

Not sure what you mean about the joints though.

The stars were random. I'm getting better at doing random stars. ^.^

Thanks for the review. :)