Cyberdevil's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[She-Hulk]

Good to see you back at it again, and in great form! The suit and tone here is just perfect... shiny; radiant She-Hulk. Beautiful work.

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[Amiya]

Amiya looking good! I'm feeling like the background's a little... simple somehow? Or just odd - the blue slice to the right and all? Maybe it's the fact that she's not really centered between the sides that feels off... small details but maybe steals away some focus from Amiya herself.

Looking good though!

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[Arknights-Amiya]

Didn't know of Arknights or Amiya before this but what a lovely looking lady...

Lines a little sketchy of course - as they are in a sketch - but both form and color's on point. Seems facial features/head in particular really got polished. She shines...

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[Postal Squirrel]

Was thinking it's like Conker meets Postal as soon as I saw the thumbnail for this one. XD

What an awesome - and somehow so suitable - hybrid between genres... Postal almost is like just a more violent and aggressive variant of the Conker games. Similarly creative and wild. It might seem like just gore on the surface but there's more to the core of it all...

Bad-ass sign too. Great design.

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[Grunty]

What wicked witchery! :D Everything flows, everything glows... the soft brush really works wonders with this one.

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[The Mystery]

The noise, the dark, the unknown... seems abrim with uncertainty this one. I like the character, and the background, and the hands reaching out... the viewer reaching to grasp the one they want to be; a stranger they don't yet fully know? Only the contours visible...

Feels like the black text isn't the most readable, wonder how it'd be in another color, or with an outline, but then again it fits the mood...

Intriguing video too. :) You an link to timestamps too if you want: https://youtu.be/pRisDso99s0?t=149

Nice work.

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[TBoAI]

I don't get it but the dude in the box kinda looks like Alien Hominid and that other character Synj worked on, as for meaning: something about being forcefully mindfucked by the very nature of the Internet, being exposed to just too much sludge, the new wave of wokeness and/or weird fetishes propagated on individuals who maybe wanted something different for themselves in this life and the ones after but did nae know it before it was too late...?

Whatever this really does refer to: nicely drawn.

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Nabella responds:

Okay, how do I explain this?

So there's this video game called the Binding of Isaac, and last year, it recently had a big expansion released for it that not only brought over a popular mod to the base game but also added a bunch of new stuff and QOL improvements. One of the things brought over from the mod was a boss on the Mausoleum floor called the Siren. Her newfound exposure amongst a new generation of players ended up inspiring a lot of smut and fetish stuff (most notably BBW) that would sometimes find their way onto video game threads on 4chan. I once drew a comic poking fun at prevalence of it in Isaac threads at the time.

THIS YEAR, somewhere around early September I think, a powerful open source AI image generator called Stable Diffusion was unleashed onto the internet. It caused a lot of ruckus amongst professional and amateur artists alike as some fans of the technology were parading it as something to replace artists or let them be artists themselves. Other conflicts of interest included the art that was being used to train the AI, whether or not AI art could really be considered art, how being able to generate thousands of works styled after currently living working artists could devalue their work and make them less sought after, how this could be used to generate deep fake pornography and threaten people for sensitive information, etc.

In a BBC article dramatically titled 'Art is Dead, Dude' it references a tweet by sci-fi artist Simon Stålenhag who called AI art "the kind of derivative, generated goo...our new tech overlords are trying to feed us."

The discussion surrounding AI would inevitably pop up in boards and threads on 4chan and eventually became a topic for flamewars and derision. It came up briefly in a thread for the Binding of Isaac and I thought it would be funny to make a drawing based off of the talk surrounding it and post it in the thread. I also thought that the term 'derivative goo' could easily be applied to that comic I drew that one time seeing as parodies are inherently derivative.

I drew this at like 3am, so of course my thought process for this drawing made like zero sense, but I'm still glad you tried to interpret something more from this than I could!

[0878]

A classy compilation of SMB characters! In the color palettes of older eras too, maybe...

They fit together nicely.

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[Tomato Potato]

Heeey there are the classics! :D New design on the right? Don't think I'll ever get used to the new though...

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[Fortress Clash]

Such a simple but effective style... love the fingerprints here, feels like a hybrid between classic VG art and anime somehow with just that one detail... and you capture the motion too even with the outlines and styling. Good stuff!

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