DioShiba's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[DBRAINSKRX]

While not the most impressive piece what I do think is that you have a style and aesthetic that works for you.

What's interesting to me is that the alt counter culture aesthetic which, I'm guessing is either emo or punk does work in your case and I feel like you understand light sources and have some sense of form and shape. Plus the zombie stitches are a nice touch. That's where you have strength in your work.

However, where you are struggling is how you're going about making the shading cohesive enough, utilizing color theory effectively and unifying the design of the character. The line work in the hair is a distraction because of the white pixels that are surrounding the line work on the inside of it. I get what you are trying to do but I feel like it would have been more effective to get rid of the lines on the black side of the hair and making the colors separate from the linework on the layers.

The other thing I would suggest looking into are people such as Andrew Loomis, Burnes Hogarth, and Alan Peck. Those artists have written books on anatomy that will apply even with something cartoony. Understand the realism before doing something stylized and your work will end up being more kick-ass.

This isn't to say that it is bad, but it's not exactly good either. I wanted to give you some more in depth feedback because I can see that something really is there with your work. And more often than not for every 100 pieces you make that you might not be proud of, you'll have one good one that will serve you in the long run as long as you are willing to learn from your own work.

Keep going. You're off to a good start and I want to encourage you to keep going.
But you have to focus on those fundamentals. We all struggled with that when we first started out.

[Knuckles (catty and rosie style)]

Look I'm going to be honest with you, there's a lot you have to learn from shapes, anatomy, value, and color theory.

I don't want to be an outright dick necessarily but even then I just don't see this as anything worth praising.

[New Heights]

Perspective seems to be the issue with this piece with the background. HOWEVER that aside I like what you're doing with both Legoshi and Haru.

It's been awhile since I've seen Beastars to be fruitfully honest. What I do think however is that you could really craft your style into something that I think can be really awesome overall if you put the time into improving your weaknesses and make them your strengths somehow.

Sanzokudebien responds:

While I do appreciate and enjoy constructive criticism, I'm sorry to say that I am just the idea man and writer for this one, my art skills aren't nearly as developed as this, however if you'd like to give the artist some pointers you can find one of her links in the caption.

[Courtney and Sweety]

You have something in your style that I like because you got a good sense of color theory and there's that nice early 2000's punk aesthetic that really works well here.

Looking at all of your pieces, I think one of the things that you may want to consider moving forward is to develop your craft away from the bean style (Or the cal-arts trend) with some of your characters and use what works with your visual style into your own voice so to say.

THAT STATED, I'm scouting you because I'm interested in seeing how you develop.

KittyFizzy7 responds:

Thank you, I appreciate the feedback :)

[Some random abstract art i made]

To be honest compared to your pixel art pieces I think you have more strength in your digital work, especially in the abstract realm.

I'm not going to stop you from doing pixel art obviously, but from you I think I'd rather see more content like this because you have something here that I'm wondering what you could really pull off if you were willing to experiment more.

WolfaYT responds:

Thanks for the reply, I love doing pixel art and this abstract one was just a test. But thanks :D

[get the cool shoeshine]

Awesome

[Vaporeon]

Honestly, this is some insanely good pixel art and this is probably the best one I've seen of Vaporeon.

[Captain]

You got a pretty awesome sense of foreshortening here!

[Ditto but mature ;)]

This is awesome work bro. Thank you for participating in the collab!

[Drinking penis]

Not enough penis, but cute art nonetheless