MillennialStylez's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Hen-sama]

A 7 it is then.

This is a nice head shot and good character design but your inking isn't very smooth and looks very sketchy and rushed. I think this work as well as the other works you've done would benefit from a nice solid outline. It reminds me of John Romita Jr's work from back in the late 90's. While his overall design look good the sketchiness of his penciling detracted from the work itself. It's still a good piece though. Nice job.

Oni-kaya responds:

thanks!
yeah I know, I'm still working on it, u.u the bad news is that I need a new inkpen, I dont know, I even tried to work the lines on the photoshop, But it seems a lot of work to me *rolls over the floor*.
But thats'why I wanted the comments, thank you :D

[Optical Illusions]

An 8 it is then.

I don't see why guy gave you a 5 but okay. Lol. To many people judge things just by how they create their own work and not by what they think the artists intentions are. As far as semi accusing you of tracing though? I'd call bullshit. If that was the case then everybodys' shit on here looks like it was traced then. Never make assumptions about someone's work unless you've seen the plagerised work for yourself. Anyway, good show my boy!! Keep it up!!!

[Cowboys]

Okay, okay, okay.....

This shit is hot!! Is black and white your style? It seems like it is from your other pics. I think colors would have added to this but not every style needs color, right? Good season (pats your crouch). Lol. That was funny!! Nice pic.

[Frida From El Tigre]

I agree.....

....even though I think a 5 is a bit harsh. The notebook paper really takes away from this piece. If you haven't already, you should at least start using typing paper or better yet, if you go to Barnes & Nobles, and go back to the art section, they have hard cover sketch books that would really give you the proper medium to store you work ( aside from storing it digitally). Now, onto the piece itself. This is a really good pic. If this's your own original design then you have a really good eye for costume design, keep at it and I hope you take my advice and get that hard cover sketch book and store your work in something that is better suited for you.

[HIP]

WTF?!?

You have a really stylized look that is probably good for your style. I'll go ahead and give you an 8 for right now until I take a look at the rest of your pics and judge it from these. Good work!

[Moondevil]

Okay man, here we go.....

This shit is sick man. Good job with the colors and effects. Did you do this with a pad or did you do on paper first then scan it? I'm still trying to get everything I need for my stuff. I also scanned and colored somemore of my other stuff but then I cleaned it up on Photoshop. What would you suggest using?

ZeWitchKid responds:

i used both actually, i like i said in the comments i drew it 1st on a piece of paper, so i get the general ida, later i scanned it and retraced all the lines using my tablet,then added the colors and shades.
i recommend a tablet because it gives cleaner lines, when you scan stuff , the scanned image always appear messy when you zoom in the details, and the lines arent clean, of course you can always spend 1 hour with the effects in illustrator or pshop to clean the whole thing, but thats time wasted in my own opinion

i personally draw using inkpens, wich are cleaner than graphite pens, and still the images look messed up. thats why i prefer a tablet for CCG.

you could see what i mean by looking at my deviant art page, i have lots of sketches there www.ZeWitchKid.deviantart.com/gallery so you can compare scanned lineart VS tablet lineart.

however if you prefer to stick with scans, i dont recommend to use the vector functions in illustrator, while many artist use it, it tend to retrace some details the wrong way, and dont always get the curves right, instead...go in image > adjust >Levels and you can play with the light/gray/dark tones to make the image clean and clear, wich make it decent enough for coloring, i sometimes do that then correct the minor details with the tablet

i personally Use Paint tool SAI for doing my linework with my tablet, its a cheap and very effective program for designing lineart
because its small size ( only 3.9 mb Oo) and low memory usage ...you can make huge pictures 10k/10k pixels and up wich allow you to make very detailed pictures.
also due to its low cpu-memory usage, you can use the bulit in rotat tool to always get a comfortable angle to draw your lines, and it dosent take any loading time like pshop,plus paint tool SAI have a bulit in vector engine, wich allow you to combine regular line with vector lines, ( vector lines are considered as object, and they can be modified until you get what you want , it beats tracing-erasing for 15 min until you get what you want)

then you can use pshop to add colors and effects.

i hope it helped! have fun

[Last stand]

Nice!!

Hey man, it's no biggie. I know how it is. You spend so much time on the characters and you're just too tired to fuck with the background. Thankfully, the hard work you put into this shows in the finished piece. Well done my man. A definite 8 in my book.

[Cowboys]

Good shit my man!!

I really like the stylized look you're using. Also, I am going to try the pen you recommended on my own work and see if it comes out better. Kudos!! Also, I only gave it 8 only because it wasn't fully colored. If it wasn't for that, I would've given it a 9. I never give tens because if you are an artists like me, then you'll know that nothing you ever draw will be the peak of your ablilities and we always keep working towards that perfect score.

BCEman responds:

Thank you much.

[Belly dancer]

Niiiccceeee!!!

I'm feein' this pic. I nice mix of anime and western art and you can correct me if I'm wrong. What type of program did you use to color it? I'm using Adobe on mine but it doesn't come anywhere close to this. Anyway, nice pic though my boy!!!

toshema responds:

Thanks allot!!!!! andYes, I'm using abode photoshop !!!!!!!!