SourCherryJack's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Sorrow]

Excellent linework, man. You have this way of portraying morbid and nasty looking appendages with such a small amount of actual linework to show the bulging veins, stretched skin and cyst looking things that I really enjoy and find inspiring. Your improvement is very apparent here in the anatomy as well as the overall balance of the character. Now if this were colored and/or had some fills it would be perfect. But if you could bring this into the next Battle Royale (whenever that happens) I'd say we're in for a good time.

Spedmallet responds:

Thanks man, I still think you're a million times better with style though.

And you best believe I'm still awaiting the new adventures of Tina and Mary.

[Vanderlei The Former God]

Looking good, man. You've made some great improvements since the original, particularly in the areas of shading, anatomy and expressions. I really like the way the rendering is done, from far away when you're looking at the whole picture it looks like any other painting that has been rendered finely and but when it's enlarged you see every brush stroke I don't know if that's intentional or not but I think it's a very cool effect you have going on. Of course there is always room for improvement, in some areas you go full white with the highlights which I feel could be toned down since it kind of gives a plastic feel to the guy, mostly on the shirt (the head is fine). Also the grey shirt kind of kills the mood of the character's expression something a bit more vibrant would probably be better, same goes fro the background. Either way great job, man. I look forward to your improvements in the future.

[Double Dip Poker Chip]

It's hard to get a full idea of the improvement factor here on account of the content of the drawings. Since the original is a chip with a face and this is only a character drawing. But I will say that the coloring and shading here does show a lot of improvement as far as depicting fur goes, the original looked too glossy, here the linework and brush strokes give some texture to the dude. Also the pose and the expression convey a good amount of emotion so that's always great. Also upon closer inspection the sense of shape in the head has improved quite a bit. Background could definitely be better though. Maybe something with a casino vibe to match up thematically with the original.

maficmelody responds:

Terrific crit, thank you!

[Inner Feelings]

Excellent work, man. It's amazing to see your older work compared with your current stuff. Especially since in the past year or two you've really come into your own as an artist as far as your complete compositions go. The awesome use of color that I've come to expect from you as well as the morbid content are present here but seeing the old drawing next to it really flushes out how far you've come in the last five years. It makes me all of the more excited for next five!

[Foresta Nebbiosa]

Alright guys, I know what you are doing - everyone who sees this piece in the "Best Art This Year" category knows what you are doing- and honestly shame on you. I may not agree with the content of a lot of the work that gets high enough reviews to be in this section, but at least I know that the users who look at the art portal have put them there, not the authors. This piece, as well as every single other piece you guys have submitted to the portal, do not deserve to be among the best art this year on Newgrounds; a fact that is insanely obvious. The fact you guys choose to constantly upvote your own and get it classified as something they clearly are not is not only annoying and sleazy but also rude and extremely unfair to the pieces that would be there otherwise. Your compositions as well as rendering and designing need a lot of work - they just do - there are no ifs, ands, or buts, about it. What you guys are showing (not just in this piece but all of your work) lacks a lot of understanding of fundamentals of character design, compositions, color choices.
I honestly am in question as to whether some of it is even worthy of having been scouting let alone being among the "best" this year had to offer. There's always room for improvement though and I hope that someday you guys realize that artificially enhancing your score on Newgrounds does not make you good artists and only through understanding your weaknesses and facing them can you really improve and make art that other people will vote high on and put here. But right now your work being in this subsection is a boldfaced lie and is fooling no one.
This is normally be where I would say I'm sorry about coming off as mean because I generally try to be positive when it comes to art and helping others but I know your reputation and I believe you should be sorry for what you are doing here.

["Jazz"]

Very nice use of perspective in this, I really love the angle and the personality captured in his pose; that combined with use of value make for an excellent composition all together. The only issue I take is that this appears to be very unfinished, the line work could use a lot of tightening up and the cropping could be better (the cigarette smoke doesn't need to be cut off like that) a simple background could also be added. As a concept or sketch this is fantastic, but as a full piece there is room for improvement.
Keep up the good work.

[The "CF" Priest Sezar Awgerto]

The character design isn't bad, definitely one of the best madness character redesigns I've seen that aren't from rhyunc, that being said the character suffers because of the poor background, and awkward use of what look to be a transparent brush over him with white (upper body) and red(waist/legs), the "wash" and "halo" are unnecessary and detract from the design a bit, get rid of them. You lose a bit of perspective on the left side of the helmet so watch out for that. The shading currently isn't anything interesting. I'd say go for harsher lighting and greater contrasts. Finally the background: you need to fix it a lot. That big black thing in the background (I'm assuming it's a building) should be solid or at least more solidly colored in than it is. The red and black strokes for the sky are pretty unpleasant to look at and could probably benefit a lot from a more unified method of coloring.
Hope that helped n some capacity, good luck with your art.

[Froschmann]

I love the simplicity of the drawing. I don't really have much else to say about it though unfortunately, so good job, man.

[The Final Strike Series 22]

So looking at the the first page of work on your art page I see that almost all of your work is done in pencil and looks very unfinished. It's harsh to say but this is not portal worthy stuff. Your drawings aren't bad at all, they do have personality and the ones that I have looked at have some interesting poses going on, but you need more complete pictures, right now as stated they're all pencil with very minimal shading, their value scales are not very extreme and the handful that I looked at have a ton of white space. These aren't finished pieces, they're refined sketches. Throw some color on them or some ink or if you want to stick with pencil get some more contrast in there, really go hard with the linework and shading, give it some pop and give them some backgrounds. You can do it, it's just a matter of taking the time to. The art portal should be a showcase of your best work so put your best foot forward. Hope that helped in some capacity.

[Stickerzine entry]

Lookin' very groovy. Loving the colors, they're dong a great job along with the style to send home 'far out' nature of the drawing. I do think the gems in it's hands could do with a color change though, right now I think they're a little too close to the hands (the outlines appear to be the same color) I think they'd be better suited as yellow like the eyes and the background jazz. Also maybe go with a snappier font for this one, the current one doesn't do a lot of justice to your groovy goat guy. Overall great job though!