Luckytime's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Duck of Wellington]

We need to preserve this. But seriously, good job dude.

I was wondering, what are your thoughts when comes to duplicating intricate patterns? This is something I've become more open to lately, whereas previously I considered it cheating. When should you do it? When should you not?

Edit: Thanks! Don't worry about the ranting, I value your opinions! I wish more people were confident enough in their ideas to share them. I was actually asking about copying something you already drew to use it again in the same piece. Like mirroring and whatnot. Still found your response super insightful!

Sabtastic responds:

Thank you! That is SUCH a good question...!

Here's my two cents, since I do it shamelessly ALL THE TIME
(This is mostly just to give artists some confidence if they do it, too).

I think all artists should reference and steal everything, but creatively. It helps us improve AND referenced artwork always turns out better. As long as they're putting some kind of a unique / comedic spin on it and making it their own, it's considered parody, and totally acceptable!

I personally sell this type of artwork along with my regular artwork for a living, and I squeak by because it's considered "parody". I make sure that I'm very transparent about about the original artists' work, and I try to bring it up when I talk about the piece. For example, at a show, when I'm selling a re-drawn pinup piece, I mention "I can't take 100% of the credit for this one-- it's very heavily referenced from Gil Elvgren's work -- he's a pinup painter from the 1960's! That's where I referenced my pose."

When it's a blatant trace, things get a little iffy once sales are involved. Copyright and legal issues, mostly.

If the artist is doing it for practice, they aren't selling it, and they give credit where it's due, I see no problem. I've had the opposite happen to me, where someone made a painting totally identical to my work but left out my signature. They had the painting up for sale as their own, too. THAT'S when things get irksome and art theft-y.

Wow you really know how to get me ranting! haha sorry about the wall of text!
Cheers, and thanks for the very kind review.

[I think I smell a barbecue!]

Love the colors and the atmospheric depth. What I don't like is the stylistic choices for spyro's design. He's supposed to look friendly but here he's kind of intimidating. Also the way the ground changes color is good but since spyro doesn't change color the same way it looks inconsistent.

Turtle-Arts responds:

Fair enough! Thanks for the feedback! :)

[Wow, your coding kind of sucks]

Loved seeing a more story-driven piece from you. I almost thought I was looking at something from another artist I like. Kudos if you know which one.

Sony-Shock responds:

I'm experimenting a lot lately, so it does look pretty weird in my gallery... @v@ I'm not sure which artist you might be thinking about. What came to mind was Endling, but that sounds more cheeky than accurate, probably~

[Tetra]

The head is good, nice pose, clean lines, good color relationships. But the quality drops off toward the bottom and it's especially noticeable since there's no background/nothing else to look at. Also the way it was cropped is questionable, not sure what you were going for. The outline gets black in some areas where it souldn't be that dark too.

Edit: What? I'm not saying you're a bad artist, I'm giving you advice on what I think needs improvement.

LetItMelo responds:

Honestly this was a quick sketch I did during a break between projects. Sorry you didn't dig it!

[Girl n boy]

Great work, the poses are just kind of bland. I would LOVE to see more boy drawings from you!

MLeth responds:

Thanks! I'll try to draw more boys hoho

[Astroman]

This gives me an indescribable feeling, something I'm not familiar with. It's not fear... more like serenity with a hint of rebirth. Anyway, you're killing it!

cyangorilla responds:

Thank you, that was awesome!!

[Gill (guardian of Dipcus pond)]

Love the lighting and the way the cast shadow falls over his feet. If it weren't for the background trees looking a little flat you'd get five stars.

fondimon responds:

I changed the trees :) hopefully this looks better. thanks for the feedback, i appreciate it!

[9fatherin6towersforthe3headedGOD]

I love how unsettling and demented this looks. Great job with the hatching, you really nailed it! With something this unorthodox, it's hard for me to give it an accurate rating without considering it for a good while. I will say that while drawing it at this scale is impressive, it doesn't exactly add anything to the art itself except making it easier to print. Save for that, you could have made the process go by a lot faster.

dogmuth-behedog responds:

Thanks :D.
I made the hatching in traditional in a letter format paper.

[DnD commission]

No complaints. Great job!

Crustofatanman responds:

lol thank you

[Todoroki]

Just wanted to say that I enjoy your art a great deal and I think you're very skilled (had the urge to say "talented"). This particular piece is very lovely, design-wise, but I think the lighting could have been done better or pushed further. When something like energy hands extending into deep parallaxes are involved I think you basically have no choice but to make it as flashy as possible. You got some motion lines and hatching, but most of the shading is cell-based. I think adding a gradient layer on top with some vivid light would make it exponentially better. It would only take like 10 minutes.

Gloss responds:

I disagree with you, it would look much worse, especially for the specific anime aesthetic I was going for here, try it and see for yourself. Thank you for your input though