Guidodinho's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Henri Halfbottom Full Body Portrait]

Love the idea and concept of this guy. Mainly cause it beats the dwarf steriotype by not being the standard bearded axe wielding powerhouse guy, but more of the sharpshooting wise guy. (the dwarves deserve some variation too).

Also, did you call him halfbottom because he can be considered as a half-assed dwarf, because of the lack of beard and axe?

DieterTheuns responds:

Yes, that's pretty much why he's named like that.

The character was a dwarf, born into noble family which had lost all of its fortune. He never accepted this reality, however, and shaved his facial hair as a fashion statement. He's a ranger due to many years of noble animal hunting. No pet though, he's not particularly fond of animals.

[another progress gif that i forgot to upload]

Quite the informative gif. I'm quite okay at making pixel art stuff, but dramatically suck at making backgrounds. But looking at this make me feel like it aint that hard, if you take the right steps to build it up, quite motivating actually.
All in all, nice shit to look at.

[i don't even know what title to put in]

My story would go like: a guy was making a drawing, the guy was drawing a guy. Was going strong, liked what he was making. He was in 'the zone' so to speak. He finished the body but couldn't quite put the cherry on the cake (cherry being a human head and cake being a body). So the guy went like: 'I aint breaking my flow for no man-head. fuck it, here a hyena-head!'.
Then the guy went on to sell stickers. And then, stickers became T-shirts, shirts became mugs, mugs became posters. And the guy became fucking rich.

So rich, he bought a village and built it up to a city. He also paid the best surgeons around the world to become the very thing that helped made him rich, a guy with a hyena-head. But little did he know, that after the surgery, he'd lose al human rights and citisenship, because of the fact that the guy had also legaly become a hyena (he did't pay the best lawyers to cover his back).
So he armed himself with a baseball bat, fighting for his live, trying not to end up in a zoo, wich he had just set on fire in the picture.

[magfest people]

If you invite those guys to a party, It's a good party. Even if they're just a bunch of chubby/pasty-ass geeks, they still look proffoundly hilarious.
Damn, I should start joining them conventions.,

[Zero Suit Samus Pinup Commission]

Could you tell me what you mean with 'traditionally'. Actually done "traditionally on paper' or taking more traditional steps of drawing and editing digitally? (not to be snide or nuthin, could've fooled me with scetchy/painty looking photoshop brushes, can't tell for sure)
Cause if it's 'paper/canvas traditional' i'd really like to know what you used to color it. And how many solid shades of blue you used on the suit. Cuz it looks about as roughly done to not make it too complicated to do, but still smooth and convincing too stay true to whatever material that suit is supposed to be.

Sabtastic responds:

It's all markers!
I used mostly copics for colour and steadtler pigment liner pens for the inks. The paper is just a thick card stock. I find smooth paper with no texture lends itself much better for blending and doesn't soak up ink quickly. Gives you time to push around pigment and blend hues together.

To answer your question, I used at least 6 different blues (including the purple looking highlights).

Thanks for the questions!

[The Bus Stop]

After having looked at your one that hit the frontpage: you should have totaly animated the raindrops XD

BryanV responds:

I actually did make an animated version of this. Dunno why I never put it on newgrounds. I put it on my tumblr
http://roastedstix.tumblr.com/post/150857166701/lovely-weather-isnt-it

[Cold night]

It's really sweet that it's a GIF's but not really an 'animated GIF'. Just an illustration with a few slighty moving bits to make it feel alive a little more.

Noticed the steam from the cup right away, and thought it was a really neat little thing you added. Then I wished you'd put in some more little moving parts: then I noticed the blinking eyes in the window-reflection, nice.
Then I thought it should have some more things to make it complete, like making the water move/reflect the light a little, or should have some stars twinkle. Then started looking a little closer in the sky and saw you made the big star twinkle ever-so-slightly. That made it the cherry on the cake.

Have to say that I probably wouldn't have batted an eye on this, if it didn't have the moving parts (or didn't hit the frontpage): the line art looks rather simple, well-done though, don't get me wrong, but nothing that really grabs your attention right of the batt.
The animated parts just added a really nice and comfortable viewing tempo (if you know what I mean). It's like you don't have to look at the whole thing right away , to take it all in at once. But you first look at the steam: your eyes move to the right cuz you see the blinking, then move to the upper left corner, and look at the other details allong the way.
Simply put, it worked with the composition to make the viewer take a path to look over the whole thing. So it helps out, to have people look at everything put into it.

Would be cool to see, if you could take that concept a big leap further: like also putting in more little moving stuff in the surroundings, like having the water move or have the trees move a bit by the wind, or other little things you could think of. Though it would probably be tricky to time it all and have it all look seperatly moving in one GIF. And having it loop correctly.

Anyways, nice job! ';D

[Say My Name!]

Damn, the facial details are great. Even the few nose hairs look spot on if you look really close.

[pokemon oc]

You sure you didn't steal it yourself? Cause there's a Deviantart watermark all over it...

Just sayin.

skygears responds:

what! how dear you to accuse of doing such a horrible think i'm disappointed in you

[the Hero of Time]

NERD POWERS ACTIVATE!

To the guy bellow me, if you played the ocarina of time and beat the forrest temple. The new little deku tree will tell Link he actually is a Hylian and his mother left him with the Kokiris. That's why Link grows old, unlike the other Kokiri dudes.

But now to actually comment on the art like we're supposed to. Thanks for fixing link, he looks manly as f*ck now. XD
I especially like how his chin looks, he may be totally ripped, but if it werent for that solid chin, he would've looked looked only half as manly.
And the idea may be really simple, but to the zelda fans, it really plays to the imagination. Makes me imagine him doing all of his screams and moans in a super manly and herioc way.