octopus58's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Sea of Light]

This is really cool! I love when people draw in the Gameboy/4 color palette as it's a very limiting decision which often leads to very nice looking results. The clouds look very cool and detailed, and I love how bumpy you made them. The beams of light are also very awesome and I love how you dried to make them transparent to the objects behind them by doing alternating shaded pixels. Awesome work, keep it up!!

GallowJolt responds:

Cheers man! Glad the transparency thing came across well

[Phonogram Man]

Lol this is awesome. Song of Storms was one of the songs I obsessed over and constantly played as a kid after first hearing it in MM, so seeing this is really nice! I love your style, and your slightly desaturated colors to make everything around look like it's during a rainy time. The N64 buttons on the wall like in the original game is a very nice touch. Keep up the amazing work!!

[some Sonic]

This is a very cool style! I love the dots to resemble shading, it actually works very well. The orange for the whites and pink for the skin color is an interesting choice but it also looks really good! And lastly ZI really love how accurate you drew sonic, it looks like some actual official art :D

Great work, keep it up!!

[Badger ink sketch 14/02/23]

This is nice! For some reason the combo of blue on white makes the picture feel very calm/peaceful. The badger looks very accurate to how it is in real life, and I love how you drew the fur. The subtle background is also very nice and cute. Great work, keep it up!!

STearleArt responds:

Ty very much!

[Brain Matter 3]

Absolutely love this! There are many takes on "brain monsters" that people have done in the past but this one really stands out. Its asymmetry really makes it feel unatural, spooky, jarring and just generally scary. The tips/ends having a gradient to blue from red is very cool and feels like transitions to deoxygenated blood in certain places. The placement of the eye and the strand making a rough mouth shape makes a perfect glaring face. With the two arms, it feels kinda cool that it has different types of endings (lobster claw and bird talons). Almost as if it has special powers to just modify its cells to grow into different endings since it's a big brain thing lol. Amazing work, love it very much keep it up!!

[Slimy Dude]

Cool design! I love how he's all drippy and you can see a bit going down his pant leg or from the side of his belt. Yet despite being all goopy he looks very happy and friendly haha. Great work, keep it up!

[Alien Hominid 🧨🎈🧶]

This looks happy, silly, and vibrant, I love it! I really like the almost paint like shading style you got all over the picture and the varying stroke size of your lining. The scratches on the guns are also a very neat detail. As for the background, it's super fitting and is well made to really focus on Alien. Awesome work, keep it coming!!

[[Magma Archive] Jirachi!]

Love it! The thick outlines are really cool, and I love how you also kind of used thicker outlines inside around the head to emphasize harsh shading! It makes it look like a comic style almost. Great work, keep it coming!

[Flygoooon]

This is awesome! I love the partial outlining you did that kinda helps emphasize depth a little. The way you did the eyes is also really good, and the overall accuracy to the design is on point. The added noise/texture is also great. Keep up the awesome work :)

[Drawing of Ristar!]

This is really cool! I really don't see Ristar drawn a lot haha but I really like how you drew him here. He looks happy and smooth, and his head shape is very accurate! Great work, keep it up :)

TheRandomStickfigure responds:

Thank you so much!! :D