MalFromed's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[His Holy Light]

Oh, wow... You took the wind right out of my sails. The second I saw this in my feed, I was going to conjure up a ramble about dancing to achieve enlightenment, only to find that you had already done so. And in a single sentence, no less. How could you do this to me?

staticomics responds:

Bro, tech is the future. We all must pray to our cybernetic overlords.

[Dream]

I think you're the second person I follow that's made something that relates to dreams and gas stations. Now that I think about it, I don't think I've ever once dreamt about a gas station. At the very least, I think that would be better than the literal existential nightmares I have. Let me share some with you.

You enter a dark room with tables and chairs in it. You notice the light to your left. They're people over in the next room, so you make your way over there. But, the second you cross the threshold, not only are you right back where you started, you notice there's a few differences as well. The room has gotten darker, an additional room has been added, between you and the other people and more tables and chairs have been added. So, you make your way through, you cross the threshold, and again, you're right back where you started. Now it's getting hard to see, so you end up bumping into a lot of the chairs and tables. The people, now three rooms away, don't seem to notice or care. Eventually, it gets to a point where the other room is just a faint light in the distance. You can't see anything, and you're bumping into nothing but chairs and tables. I think the worst part is that in the dream, you really think that you have a chance to make it to that other room when you never will.

In another dream, you're having a good time and decide to turn on the radio. And everything's fine until the radio starts chanting. You try to turn it off, but it only gets louder. Seeing as that doesn't work, you try leaving instead, only to find yourself stuck in the room with a radio that just keeps getting louder. Eventually, it gets so loud that you feel like your head is going to explode. You try covering your ears, but it makes no difference. Soon, you fall to the ground. Left with no options and the ever increasing volume of the radio, you start screaming. But you find that your screens have been completely drowned out by the radio. It's as if you never made a noise.

With all that said, I love the top section of this piece. A wonderful idea to blend the structure with the negative space. I would give a critique on the lighting, but I don't feel like it would be appropriate for me to do so, seeing as I don't feel like I have a good understanding of lighting to give any kind of appropriate critique. But if I had to give my thoughts, I'd say you did a good job there. If there's one thing I felt you should have done, it's that the side of the gas pump could have been the same color as the negative space. As it is now, it's close enough to it that you have to look closely to see that there's even a different color there. I think it would have looked fine and a little more visually interesting if you had done that.

All in all, good work.

staticomics responds:

Thanks man! I took some time to respond but I appreciate the feedback, no worries about whether or not you think you can't properly critique.

[Prismatic Plashorn]

I knew the day that I clicked follow, you would never disappoint! And today is further evidence of this!

I absolutely LOVE goofy looking things that could put me in mortal danger! Nothing long-winded to say this time around. Just wanted to let you know I'm in awe at this magnificent doof! Excellent work! I love the eyes in particular.

Azpher-Omega responds:

Aah thank you! :D

[Come out, Crocodiles]

What did crocodiles ever do to her? They have such nice smiles.

OneGrumpyLumpy responds:

They ate her family

[Carol- FRIDAY NIGHT FUNKIN mods]

FRIDAY NIGHT FUNKIN has mods? I had no idea. Not that it matters to me. My hands are unable to keep up with the game, and I have too much pride to play on easy. (The grapes are probably sour anyway...)

Anyway, I'm not crazy about the shading. I feel like it clashes with the overall ascetic of the piece. However, I can still appreciate it. With that said, I love how you tackled the colored outline. The colors you chose for it make the piece stand out without interfering with or drawing too much attention away from the rest of it. All in all, it's nice, cute, and easy on the eyes. Good job!

Mustabulus responds:

Dude the modding community on that game is CREATIVE, like they go above and beyond. The carol mod, (the girl in the picture) even has lip syncing.
Anywho about the shading: I’m trying to get back into coloring stuff since over the years I stopped using colors all together and I used to be known for coloring, and I wanted to use an old soft shading method I used since I was feeling nostalgic and I did this in procreate which has a lot more painterly brushes in it. I get why some people won’t like it since the line art is very thick n’sharp and that clashes, but I had a lot of fun shading and messing with color layers like I used to. I’m probably not going to do this again the same way though.

[Referee]

Mantis Shrimp Boxing™

Someone threw a lobster into the tank.

Certly responds:

Yeah that's a red card for sure

[Tammy's Lust for-]

"A Lust for-"

ADEQUACY

Also, are those thumbs backwards?

AlexisWasilla responds:

They are, I just realized, thank you lmao

[That Sweet Fool]

You know, this really comes off as gentle and romantic. That is until you see it through her perspective, and you come to realize that she's actually saying this to a giant piece of candy corn, in which case this becomes vile, factually wrong, and kind of kinky.

Yajuro responds:

We do love candy corn lmao

[I Got These for You]

How lovely! If only more folks could be so thoughtful nowadays.

Retinacyst responds:

Thank you.

[Nefelder Nymph]

Now that's a grub I'd let crawl around in my oatmeal!

Quirky comments aside, I wish I had some actual critique for you, but every time I look at one of your monsters, I realize real quick that I don't have anything that I could possibly add to the conversation. You've got a solid imagination, and most of your color choices are superb. At least in my opinion. I also quite enjoy the lore and worldbuilding that you've been giving to your creatures. So I guess all I can say is keep doing what you're doing.

And if I'm not mistaken, you've been scouted! I'm quite happy for you. Hopefully, you'll start to see more comments other than mine popping up around these parts.

Take care of yourself and stay safe.

Azpher-Omega responds:

Aaah thank you!! Thats so nice ^o^ Well whenever you have something to say I usually like critiques and questions, and if you ever want to see more worldbuilding my discord has most of my WIP documents! And I hope so too, I love comments like these :]