Kajenx's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Angelbot]

I like the way you did this. You can add color to this kind of thing really easily with shading filters. Not saying you should, but I just wanted to comment on the nice technique. :)

The only thing I don't love is the edges. Do you use a lot of smudging? It might speed up your process if you could find a way to work with the smudging in a more "solid". Like, I've found it helps a lot if you try to work in a way where, at any step of the process, you could stop and it would be "finished". It might take more time trying to work like that in the short term, but it really speeds things up as you move along. I'm sure you're already doing this sort of thing, but I just thought I'd mention it, lol...

Flowers10 responds:

I actually "finished" this piece and after that started smudging, im really still learning how to do these. so thank you for your kind words!

[Dream (Full free tutorial)]

You must be a Mark Ryden fan, no? :D

liransz responds:

Indeed!

[The face of all your fears]

Very pretty. Reminds me of Mark Ryden. :)

liransz responds:

Thank you <3

[Snow Tank]

It looks kinda like marble with that dark line in it. :D

I like the stubby canon too, haha. Remember guys, it's girth, not length, that's important on a...uh...canon.

deathink responds:

Yeah, that is why I kept those dark part in!

[wazup bro]

Haha great stuff. I bet you'd like yoko d'holbachie.

FarturAst responds:

Yes i definitly like it ;)

[I call him Woody]

Scary Stories

I think I've said this before to you, but this looks like it'd be at home in the scary stories books. :3 (I hope you don't take offense to that. You're at a very high level of drawing ability.)

Mistakes? PAH! More like love strokes. ;)

SmokeryDots responds:

No, no offence:) I love the illustrations by Stephen Gammell, and alot of people say that the style reminds them of that in the books. I take it as a compliment:)

Thanks

[Heawbeaw & scrimps]

LOL

Adam Phillips called, he wants your lady fatsack for breeding.

*PLBT*

I like the coloring style. For some reason I can never allow my stuff to have such hard edges. It's like they scream at me until I fix them.

sucho responds:

e..eww...

[Pirates on the edge of world]

Fantastic!

You're easily my favorite artist on the site. :) Your colors and compositions are really great. You keep reminding me how much I still need to learn.

voxmortemcg responds:

thank you very much! I'm still learning basics, and all I can say is to never give up, you'll get there and past that if you keep training :)

[Robotic Postapocalyptic]

Ohh cool

I like the "realistic colors" quite a lot better than the supersaturated ones you often use. I think a better way to describe it is "sophisticated color" because the painting isn't given an even treatment of brightness. The saturated colors you used here are much more effective because of the cool grays around them.

I took off a point for the copypasta robot on the left, though. It creates a weird pattern/rhythm that breaks over the robot on the right. I think the picture would be better without it or at a different angle. Or, if all the robots had the same facing and you forced the pattern it might be even stronger.

Kamikaye responds:

Wow ,thx for that dedicated comment :) I will keep that note on the color theory in mind and try to refrain from supersaturation more often in future, but you know .. these sliders in PS, they look at me :P