JimmyTheCaterpillar's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[This Is a Truth]

i really enjoy the brushstrokes here. there is a certain flesh-n-blood quality to them and the colors used. right on! likewise, i'll celebrate any quote urging one to live for self-realization.

ShadenLines responds:

Thanks! Yeah...that's from real brushes on REAL paper. No piece in this account is produced all-digital.

[Kiryu]

YESSSS KIRYU IS THE MANNN

I think the stylization here is cool, but it could definitely use some cleaning up, depth, and background work! but the heart is there!

[binej yeah (again)]

the bigger meaner mouth is so awesome tell him i said that idc if he is mean about it!

[Buk on Suicide]

the stippling lettering is very cool and consistent throughout!

bukowski used to be my fucking JAM years and years ago.. if you like him I also recommend Everette Maddox,, he wrote in a similar fashion (not as an imitator though) with focus on New Orleans and romantic love as opposed to sexual.

ShadenLines responds:

Thanks! I'll have to check out Maddox soon... Bet his living in New Orleans gave him plenty of subjects to write about!

I do have an actual poem by Buk in here as well..."Victory".

[lettering practice (Carlyle)]

must've taken a steady hand, to be sure!!

i think the lettering style adds much to the quote and vice versa.

I'm curious as to what the scribbles are, they seem to prop up the quote almost.

ShadenLines responds:

The "scribbles" are parts of the watermark. :-(

If it weren't for the current online climate being the way it is, I wouldn't have to deface my work with such things.

[Vasilisa the Beautiful : lily pads]

detailed with whimsy. really cool, the vision is so strikingly clear throughout.

[Evil on the Underground]

very eerie,

I love how the lower third of the piece is created with as much care as the figure's head and the looming beast beyond. it carries that sort of Jasper Byrne / early Silent Hill quality of tenderness amid the horror.

thank you for sharing :)

AntonM responds:

Thanks!! Silent Hill is a huge influence for sure and I actually listen to Jasper Byrne's music very often, especially those sonic albums :))

[hey guys it's bread again]

thank you 4 the bread christian jesus maruki

clarigaricus responds:

omg sacred route achievement

[put me together]

very striking clash of halftone and otherwise!

I think the blues you're using match so well with the mauve and the form feels deeply human and sincere. I like the little bolts of electricity near the shoulders a LOT as a light detail touch.

The heart too, feels very ooshy and thick with core fluids n stuff!!

I would say that, in light critique, the face can feel a little flat in parts, particularly in the nose, tears, and eyes. Noticing the blank space where the subject's left arm would be is also something I did.

That being said, I still love the patchwork frankensteinian approach, and I also want to reiterate that I really relate to and appreciate the body form.

thank you for sharing this :)

[Pomni sketch]

i really like this sketch, you've really captured something in the face that feels very real, impossibly layered!

LisaNikitina responds:

Thanks!