NothanyTPM's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Eternal.]

gruesome...I like it!

[Calibrated]

Can't say anything about the foreshortening. Haven't done it enough to find patterns, but when it comes to adding colours to characters that look good in black & white, I have a few tricks:

Firstly black line-art on a pure white character sticks-out way too much when switching to colour (something about going from white to black to colour is too intense, and I can't quite explain why). The solution is to either change the skin colour so there's less contrast between the skin and lineart, or to change the line-art on your character so that again there's not a huge contrast between them.

My solution for my character was to make the lineart around the character a blue-ish colour that works well with the background, but you can also use a different colour, have thinner lineart, or just remove the lineart altogether and rely only on the shading for those details.

Another example is with @sinnykitt. They use gray skin for their characters which can make the character pop less, but makes it easier to add colours around them, and it doesn't clash with the black lineart.

Those are all the examples I can think of, but it's up to you to experiment with what works best in your art-style.

I will say though, the one advantage I found while drawing my white bunny character is that since white is in the middle of the colour wheel, most cold colours can be used for shadows, and most warm colours can be used for highlights. So you can make some wild as hell colour combos and it can still look good.

Hope this helps!

Awesome drawing BTW.

RE:
I understand that the thick black lineart with the black & white characters is part of your style. I just wanted to give you some suggestions since working with either an all white, or all black character can be tricky to add colours to and around them.

LiteralHat responds:

I'm looking for criticism, not an extended opinion. I feel like there is a very clear difference there and your response didn't really help. The black lineart is deliberate. I'm mostly looking for pointers when it comes to fundamentals on how to work values and light. I appreciate the time you took out of your day to write up this response though.

[The Midlife Artstyle Crisis of 2022]

That feeling when you're looking for criticism, and all you get is "that's cool", or no comments.

Drives me up the walls I tell ya.

LiteralHat responds:

I don't mind. People have their own lives and I'm not entitled to others comments.

[Robots Being Robots =v=]

Wouldn't that just be a donation?

Also, really like the art. It's just so chill looking.

TheDyingSun responds:

Thank you!

And I still kept to a deadline while working on this piece and it was a specific request, so idk XD

[Krita Test]

Really like the colours and the shading you did on the character.

Been using Krita for I feel like close to a year now. So far my only gripes with are is that most of the default brushes kinda suck (like why is the flow on most of these brushes cranked to the max?), and some of the tools kinda struggle when you have a huge canvas.

Haven't used any other art program (GIMP, Pencil2D, MSPaint, and Paint.Net don't count), so I can't really compare to anything.

[Fugue]

I really like what I'm seeing...but what the heck am I looking at?

[One for the haters]

*0 damage taken*

...well this is awkward, my thick skin deflected it.

[Floral Centipede]

What's funny about centipedes is that for as creepy as they look, they don't even want to bite people.

All they want is to snack on some moist wood, or smaller bugs.

[PURPLE CHARACTERS]

Never realized how many characters I like are purple, and purple is my favourite colour.

[#messypaints June]

This captures both the beauty and trauma of Gelato Beach.

Really amazing job!