jthrash's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Bubsy!!]

Bubsy could totally work as a character if he was supposed to be written like an overconfident has-been jock who peaked in high school and always gets his comeuppance at the end, similar to Ed, Edd n' Eddy or the high school reunion episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Basically, sort of an intentionally-unlikeable parody of Sonic the Hedgehog. But no, the devs seriously expected us to unironically tolerate and enjoy this character...

[I dunno, George]

The lady in the middle is my type!

[A wolfie and his pet]

Shy smiles are the best smiles!

[Borzoi]

Didn't I do it for you?

[Hello their tiny insane vampire lady! (Ezreal pats briar)]

I'm afraid I'm going to have to give you some critiques if you really want to improve, please don't take it too hard. I can barely even see these light-gray lines over the white paper. A very quick and easy way you can improve right now is to work contrast. It should take nothing more than a quick Levels or Curves adjustment in Photoshop, Photopea or Gimp to make the lines darker (preferably black) so I can actually see what you drew against the white background.

Better yet, find a brush in your software that gives bold, black lines so that even when you're sketching out the image, you can easily see what's going on. Most software has layers, so it's not like you need to draw really faint pencil lines like on actual paper. The way it generally works is that you draw a "Sketch" layer first using any brush you like, then create an "Inking" layer, lower the opacity of the "Sketch" layer, then on the "Inking" layer you basically trace over your own lines from the "Sketch" layer.

I hope you won't hate me for this critique, but the solution to faint drawings like this are very easy once you figure out the workflow, and hopefully by learning to take criticism (even from trolls, they sometimes have a point, but don't express it in a delicate way), it would only be a matter of time before someone decides you're good enough for the Art Portal!

DerangedKnite responds:

Going to be a tad bit fair here, I don't really care about the score this time here, I only drew this for the sake of it, More of a fun doodle than actually something id put my hard effort o.

But, I can understand about the pen, Personally it doesn't frustrate me much, Maybe I'm someone who is able to see the lines of my faint yet quite pen Or....I am just using said faint and quite pen thinking my lines look good because I don't wanna look at my actual lines, Either way, I agree on the pen being a bit too not visible.

I really should think about switching to another pencil, But there aren't much decent sketch pens in clipstudio really.

Again this is only a short drawing of mine, Its not something I would put much effort onto, I really wish I had a place people would actually bother to care about the sketches that I do, I tried to make a thread, But so far..Nobody cared

[Urshin & Carilly - Mermaid VS Murkul - Part I]

"You're thinking with your short-sword, son"--Beverly Hills Ninja.

Seriously, it's hilarious how easily we guys can be manipulated by a pretty face, especially during puberty! This is underselling how gullible lust made people like me in my tween/teen years, if anything.

[Chopper's Doctoring]

This live-action remake actually seems to be getting good reviews from diehard One Piece fans. I don't if it's becasue the writer's strike made us desperate for content or something else, or if the show is actually better than it looks and proof that not all remakes are bad when I finally do get to watch it. I'm so confused...

[too hot]

Is it hot out here, or is it just you?