Mrputter's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Oc May-lee]

It's a good start, and I can definitely see a lot of potential in your drawing techniques. I would look into the following areas to improve.

Side note: I don't know if this character is your own design or a well known cartoon, but below are my general thoughts.

Hand anatomy - spend a bit of time drawing hands. Trace over some images, try to draw your hand etc. In this drawing the thumb and the palm on the right hand look a bit off.

Colours - The colours are either too similar or clashing - for example, the sleeves and the backpack are very similar. The lime green and pink don't complement each other, and the same can be said with the hair and the eyebrows.

Hair - This might be a part of the character's design, but the hair feels blocky. I'm not sure what the rings in the hair symbolise. The brown behind the hair also looks like a lump coming out of her head, rather than something coming out of her backpack. Maybe shading can fix that?

Shading - This may help the drawing. If it's not your style, then I completely get that. Maybe test it out and see what you think :)

Background - The tone of the background is too similar to the character's colours. Perhaps make it darker. Darker colours can really make a drawing pop!

I am super picky, but overall, this is a good drawing, and with regular practice, you'll definitely make some amazing art work

Atara-Parakitty responds:

it's fine I don't think you're picky well this is a kinda old artwork I should have put that in the description and the hair looks the way it is cause this is a splatoon oc. I admit the hand does look off tho but that's my fault. As for the lime green and pink color choice I actually think those color look good together. As for shading I still don't do it very much I guess I should do more for pieces that need it. Anyway, thank you for your input I'll make sure to keep it in mind.

[Akitochka]

It's beautiful, but make the signature slightly smaller

[Rayman]

Great work. I love the layering of the watercolours and the saturated tone - especially on the body

[Carrot Flowers]

Nice to see a NMH reference!

[Very Heartless]

You're style is fantastic. Amazing character design, textures and colours. Do you use Instagram too?

[Six Fan Arts Challenge #1]

The drawings are smart, but the final presentation is not doing your work any justice.

You can easily get rid of the grey background from the scanned paper by using a programme like GIMP, Paint.net, Photoshop, affinity photo etc. In Photoshop, the Curves tool and maybe the Levels tool are probably the best solutions - all of the programs I mentioned above should have it.

The text is also distracting from the drawings. Make sure it fits in the text box, and make all the text the same to keep it clean.

The images should also fit in the boxes.

Once you've got the presentation part sorted, then it would be interested maybe experiment with different pen thicknesses, shading and colour. If you don't like what you see after a few goes, then scrap the suggestion :)

Good work overall, and hopefully there will be more soon!

BeastKing05 responds:

Lol. You are the first person to point that out and make suggestions.
I will take that into consideration for the next ones.

[Some SCRAGGS]

Very cute!

polished-eggplants33 responds:

Thanks a ton!

[Meteorette: A cheap knockoff]

Really cute design but it's getting sucked into the background. Maybe look at changing the background colour slightly?

ToastieTV responds:

It was done with intent. As they have the ability to create black holes.

[Misterious]

Great work!

[Six Fanarts challenge]

I think your drawing skills are really excellent, but they are coming off a little bit flat. It's need some more detail or texture to make it pop out. Maybe play with the background too, since it is a little bit drab.

clayscence responds:

thank you! it was meant to be flat, I didn't want to spend much time on it :)