Cyberdevil's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Review Trickster-Mewx Noir Comic]

lmao. XD Inside joke but still fun...

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[Emily!]

Spunky, happy; somewhat hype-building for that upcoming project too! Color choices and texture works so well together. Gives it that natural/somewhat saturated/somewhat old but also down to Earth vibe.

The way she changes with each of these but her expression is exactly the same though hmm... kinda strange when you start thinking about that one detail. :P If it changed just a little it'd make this sequence feel alive! Like a photo shoot. Sort of.

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[Gwain Saga]

Bit simpler one again I guess? Or just the style you went for with this? Really smooth work on the lighting/glow yet with all that light the main character still comes across strangely dark! The shadow's right but... maybe a bit much? Or maybe the lighting's a bit too white considering the orbs are both pink...? Anyway not to get stuck on details here...

Background and logo has me thinking more of a traditional wallpaper (digital I mean, oldskool style) than one of those half episode things, but then again I don't really watch a lot of episodes with those types of breaks... either way looking good!

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[Feelings: Aren't You The Same Thing?]

Really like this one! The fluent forms, the color, the texture fits right in too. I... can't really read the intention though. The subject matter... life, death, joy, sadness? He's holding something but I'm not sure what it is. A raised fist in the background. An upside-down cross. Smells like revolution, or a crusade, or something sinful, but the title confuses me a bit... not sure what it's all about after all.

Then again that just makes it all the more intriguing...

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DevilRat responds:

I will let people decide what this is about. If recognize the symbolism and how similar their behavior it will link together.

[Unlabeled 2]

Hmm, your signature pointing downward towards the roof of the one house, it seems like? Or is that arrow more so a symbol within the signature? Interesting work using textures along with the painting, and abstract forms... feels like a both chaotic and soothing landscape, though a form to the right that's... like a thumb? The cannon on a tank? Makes you wonder a bit.

The balloons really stand out too. Like it was meant to be a party, but people just didn't feel like it after all... or like they were about to start but had to evacuate? An ode to the world situation right now? Intriguing scene.

As always so atmospheric work on the lighting too.

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DevilRat responds:

A lot of my earlier digital paintings are built upon Asian architecture, specificly. Japanese architecture. The balloons were sort of a refrence to.... Up, but can also mean but also add to this clown world.

[Kayle]

Before I read the description I was thinking maybe it was a play on kale, the overground edible. :) Expression somehow comes across really emphatic and kind though, and the quick bio even more so, glad she's not... nice one.

Also subtle environmental moral: quit dumping shit in 'em oceans!!!

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ForgottenDawn responds:

Make coral reefs happy again c:

[Spawn]

Such a badass design! :D I wish this dude was still in the spotlight a bit more, as far as I'm concerened Michael Jai White was perfect to play him back in the day too but somehow it all ended up one of those B-movies that maybe made studios opt for other antiheroes... comics were a different beast of course.

He should've gotten a second chance when Venom came about though! Such a different story than the common one. Anyway just throwing around basic Spawn trivia as to say: hell yeah I'm still here. :P Awesome homage.

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[Rae]

Way to work the atmosphere in this one! :D The pitchfork breaking the fourth wall. The glow. The shadow. The everything about this feels so thoroughly awesome...

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[Unlabeled 5: Stones and Mushrooms]

Magical. :) The amount of detail you put into these... love the way you integrate the lightning, and the slightly abstract forms just make it seem all the more like a fairy tail.

Also: imagine some levels like this for a Worms World Party battlefield! :D The style's somewhat similar, but so much more elaborate scenery than the ones they have built-in...

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DevilRat responds:

The early process gave me so much of a nostiligia feel of the C64. I somewhat been trying to improve it. Allowing colors to bleed, a tad harsher than a digital painter named Marco Bucci. It's mostly a one layer affair or a constant merging of overlay layers which create the visuals. October has been having my most impressive and best works. Less is more for me. This only apart of the unlabeled paintings of mine due to... Well I don't give my work meaning and just find it admitly dumb to label paintings that showcase.

I heard of Worms. Due to it being an Amiga game. I find limiting my palette to three colors really works out in my favor. 2 Can work, Three HEAVILY, one also greatly. Four colors primarly, FUCK THIS SHIT I AM OUT! I just find I stay fairly muted in four, but 2 I can get away with that.

[OCT 19 - Mythological]

A modern take on Medusa, what with the stone statue to the lower right? :D She is pretty bewitching, and seems like a cobra pattern running down what you'd think is just a headband/shawl. Looking good!

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