Whirlguy's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Proj. Chaplaincy: Floating Eyes, Pt 1]

Cool, I love the colors and overall design. I'm really curious about the rest of those eyes. Maybe it's because this reminds me of the Legend of Zelda, but I feel these designs could do really well in a videogame. Seeing as they are based on 7 deadly sins, that could be an even bigger incentive.

[Monster!Pico]

Love the characters design, especially your take on the guns. This reminds me of @ianmichaelmiller's stuff. I imagine it could make an awesome animation.

linda-mota responds:

holy shit his stuff is amazing @O@ thank you!

[Demons]

Mysteriously Cool

This painting's quite mysterious. It does an outstanding job at portraying a different, more magical world. I like how the background darkness is layered with strokes of a somewhat lighter color. Along with the light colors of green and blue they create a great sense of both depth and atmosphere, which really brings the environment to live. The character that's been portrayed here really adds to the charm of this painting. And to top it off, you added those swirling orbs. While I'm not sure what that big yellow thing is, it adds to the painting pretty nicely.

A description to this painting would have been pretty cool (:

[The Minotaur]

Concrete O:

Oh hell yes, this made me think of tekkonkinkreet right away. I loved that movie. Loving your style. You could have done something more fascinating with the background in my opinion though. Like you could have used concrete textures or something, but I don't know. Might not fit with the black smudges. Some trippy background would have been good aswel. Seems a little plain this way :P

[Newgrounds Last Supper]

Cool photoshop.

So does that mean Wade is going to betray Tom?

[UP UP DOWN DOWN]

Very comical

Haha, he reminds me of Timmy Williams from the Whitest Kids You know. Nice use of textures here, Also quite nice how you drew his fingers all angular there, especially the nails. It's quite stylish. You could have probably used a more interesting variation of colors in this drawing but furthermore I find this to be really cool.

[Dad]

I love this

Great work at creating a realistic version of dad! Or yeah, well, his face anyway. I really have nothing bad to say about this, it's rather simple but still surprisingly refreshing. Seeing as this is already featured, it'll probably hit the calendar too. I really hope so anyway.

[unfinished final piece]

I'm glad you lost the file haha

In my opinion you shouldn't even get the chance to finish this. It looks very cool this way. The contrast of abstract versus realistic is very stylish. Personally I think I wouldn't like it as much if it were done. Very cool, I love this.

[Apple]

Red Delicious

An attempt at realism and a good one at that! I love how the peel comes out of the top, the shading there is great. Also the lighting looks very nice and realistic. But most of all I like its shape. It really brings this image alive. The only thing I'm not so sure about is the dark outlining. And I think you should have added a bit of shading underneath the apple to finish the image, but that's about it (:
Great job at ms paint.

WritersBlock responds:

Thanks Whirlguy. When I said I'm quite patient, I must say that there's a point where I have to draw the line somewhere. I think some shading would have been nice, but then I'd be trying to draw a background for it, and adding all sorts of other details. I figured "I'll leave it hanging in white nothingness for now". You're better at that stuff than me. :)

[Worms!]

Awesome

I love the excessive blood splatter in here and the braindead look on his face, very expressive. While it looks like a character that's been taken from a horror movie, it still very much maintains the worms feel. I think you could have added a few more splatters shooting up left on the chainsaw, maybe use stripes that are straighter and not as thick. You could maybe add some drops beneath the chainsaw on the floor aswel. Appart from that, I like it a lot! Nice job.

Raguel responds:

Thanks man.

I'll admit that I wasn't really at home with Flash when I drew this and I agree with your suggestions. I could do a lot more with it.

On the plus side. You're my first reviewer for anything I've ever 'technically' submitted to Newgrounds.

Hurrah!