Rotohail's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[IMPRISONED]

The good ol' ball and chain. Euphemism pun! Very nice expressiveness.

[The Funky Bunch]

The kid attitude made me chuckle, specially the dog one. Colors are pleasing and gestures work great. You could throw down some simple shadow shapes to ground them better.

[Hard Hitter]

Damn is really interesting to see stylized drawings with that 3D rendered look! This one is my favorite so far those mech pincers are buttery smooth.

[what the frick are you looking at huh???? you think you're better than me????????????]

My fav so far due to expressiveness and mood.

Oddlem responds:

OMG thank youu!! I'm glad you think so, I wanted it to be all foreboding!

[The Kingsblade]

A damn I really liked the golem hunched over gesture. Carrying the world on it's shoulders. Also the sword tip wink to a crown! Great design.
Question would be what stops the golem from using the sword to defeat it's master and rule in it's stead? I'm rooting for it.

jouste responds:

the big rules that no golem can be king! it's a brutal shame. thanks for the kind words and score! <3

*highfives

[Amon Amarth Album remake]

Red Hot Iron Damn! You could push the dark at some points but It rocks. But hammer against tongue! Need a cutting weapon for that. Not gonna get the extra carves.
Sorry, bad puns everywhere.

[Yu-Gi-Oh Playmat Illustration]

It's pretty damn impressive. I think if you want more punch you could play some smart gradations for occlusion/light decay below the robe mainly even go to black, but no clue it reads darn well right now I might be wrong.
Maybe another thing could be mixing some of the light bouncing from other things inside shadows, play around with shadow colors/vibrancy? Usually brings a lot of playfulness and belief to a piece.

cyangorilla responds:

Yo thank you! I'll think about these points in future pieces. Particularly getting more colors into shadows.

[Fiore Violette the Fox Witch]

Really liked the face style and upper torso gesture, the feet turned inwards on martial arts are a stance that is used for defense, whenever I see it I think of playing it safe so it goes a bit against the upper body forward attack laughing vibe.
The magical effects could be more interesting also if you want more punch you can just add a background flat tone or gradation and use glows for them, against white they lose some of the kick.

Mastafran responds:

I was going for an overconfidence look for Fiore. I've been flying on the seat of my pants with designing this character and looking back, I'm not as happy as I could be about her character design because she's not villainous enough. The background effects a smarter idea, though I do want to do something more interesting with the magic like adding sigils or runes or something to give her a more personalize spell casting look.

[PITCHFORK KISS]

Spot on aesthetics.