Cyberdevil's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Inktober2019 Day 31 - Ripe]

Had to skip a bit and see how this all ended. :) With a masterful, imaginative and somewhat morbid pumpkin-devouring Halloween scene of course (the main dragon in particular - very nice)!

I like the motive, and the choice of color, but it does seem a bit incomplete with the blotches of white that yet remain in back of it... for the signatures btw, have you thought of drawing them in, instead of having pre-written text? I imagine it'd really float into the image that way. You could follow curves and other edges in a way premade fonts don't really allow.

Anyway: a suitable seasonal finale, and work well done on the lot of these! Hope to go through the rest at a later time. Happy Halloween (again)!

-cd-

KaileahPNelson responds:

Haha yes, this one is a bit...morbid. R.I.P poor pumpkin but in the baby dragon's defense he just wanted to join in the Halloween spirit.

I felt the same too, about the blotches of white yet. When I was doing it, I wanted to captured to black and white always colored worlds collided into one but I don't think these peculiar piece cuts it so I'm working on re-colorizing him so I'll have a "remastered" drawing done soon.

I hope you see the rest too. I illustrated a lot of ones for humor and enjoyment as well as mystery and few other themes lol thanks for checking it out!

[Inkober2019 Day8 - Frail]

So serene... for some reason he gets me thinking of a Buddhist monk. Like the facial features radiate a wisdom beyond that of a mere baby. The form's great apart from the one pinky. Nice scene.

-cd-

KaileahPNelson responds:

Thank you.
Well, each illustration is suppose to tell a different story to each person and if that what you see, cool, I've accomplished my goal;)
Yeah I'm working on my form, truth be told that's my first baby drawing and that pinky....well I'm not too good with hands yet but I'm getting better. Hands are always a challenging body to draw.

[Inktober2019 Day7 - Enchanted]

I think there's an 'all' too much in the poem. ;)

Really enjoying these forest motives overall, and you really managed the perfrect signiture placement with this one.

The forms are great, the colors... some stark, but some somewhat dark. Some gradients somewhat bright. Maybe the grass could shift in a more grass-like hue? Maybe some mushrooms could be a different color, orange, yellow, a little speckles or shades (well there is one)? A little softer green on the mossy branches? A little color faded by sunlight on the tattered edge of her dress?

The motive's great but I seem to see the forest in somewhat different hues. Can't say this is wrong but those impressions they ruse. The trees with the moss, the leaves and the lost, the green and the grass, the free and the rash... think just looking at these motives is pretty therapeutic too. Grounded and imaginative. Another nice one.

-cd-

KaileahPNelson responds:

Gosh, I can't help by be a bit overjoyed by your attraction to details(not to same that I'm not, gosh do I pay to details...maybe a little to much lol). Most people when they comment on my work, don't really give much of a detailed comment like you did. I'm very happy with your review. I'm just breaking into digital painting so at the time I did these, I hadn't figured out shading and shadows. Grass though.....grass has always been my greatest and hardest challenge....
Perhaps I'll do a remaster of this too.
It you like, I'll have no problem doing it;P Then I can surprise you how much I've learned in the time making this. haha
Thank you again for the review.

[Inktober2019 Day6 - Husky]

He does look pretty charming! :D Entertaining signs in the background that make a suitable frame at the same time, realistic form and all, this looks pretty good. Feeling like it might be possible to further enhance puppy eyes and sloppiness of the tongue, also claws (?), but overall this is great.

Also these time frames oh my god. XD Must've taken a lot of polish time... Mahahahahahaha? XD

-cd-

KaileahPNelson responds:

Well I'm glad he's charmed you haha
The cautions signs I thought worked very well because I didn't have a background from him, then I got the thought and the rest followed.
I suppose his eyes and tongue could be enhanced....either way, thought he'd still be cute.
lot of time that's for sure, killed one of my sharpies, inking in all that huskiness.

[Inktober2019 Day 5 - Build]

I do love dragons, and mecha, and ancient mechanical mysteries even more, so this was a real feast! :D Such intricate details, and imaginative/clear forms no less. The colors really bring forth these mythical beasts as well, though so bright wings... wonder if they could've appeared even more mythical/magical/ancient with a somewhat darker or jaded hue. I wonder how it would look with a little shading or texture too... not that it isn't enough as is.

Not to complain unnecessarily since this really is awesome but it does seem a little incomplete when some elements are colored and some aren't, as well. I imagine if the canvas was simply light gray, or something similarly ground-like, then that'd be enough. The white shines a bit. Becomes a focus point around the main motive.

Also holy shit you've sure poured in a heavy dose of time into some of these! Turned out great though.

-cd-

KaileahPNelson responds:

Haha yes, this is definitely one of my favorites indeed. Yes, 14 hours to be precise, only 1 hour of which was coloring. I have two rendering of this one actually.
The only reason why this one was uploaded was because (being new and all), I thought that because it was to be done in ink, inktober was suppose to be mainly black and white and I see other people post black and white but they added an element of color here and there so I tried it.
I'll be posting the full color one soon, with shading and with as much texture that I've learn to use.
Keep an eye out. lol

[Inktober2019 Day4 - Freeze]

The sky/background... not sure what it's made of here. Clouds? Ice? Rock? The shapes baffle me a bit.

Really nice work on the ice and characters otherwise - proportions all look right to me, though I think her right foot might poke out behind her a bit the way its angled. Poetic/romantic description too... refreshingly fairytale-like :)

Also eight hours?! Woooah. I'd have thought the last piece would've taken at least as long as this one did, if not longer. Long time spent tweaking the human forms; getting those rights?

Turned out good, just feels like the background/sky is a bit unclear, and maybe also a little cluttered. The characters don't stand out as much as they could I think.

-cd-

KaileahPNelson responds:

Haha you'll be shocked then because I decided to do two rendering of this.
This is my other rendering: https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/kaileahpnelson/winter-dance

Some illustrations make take long while others with just as crazy details can take a whole hour. It simply depends on how well everything comes together.

[Inktober2019 Day3 - Bait]

Oooh, nice switch up with the background color in this one! And seemingly so much more detail with the shading/texture, both the crosses and lines. Gnarly trees reaching up into the blackness, the landscape in itself a detailed mastery... and then there's the fish fishing for humans. XD lmao! Definitely my favorite so far.

I really love the detail level here too, and the bulrush/cattail/typha? (Google translating kaveldun here - whatever you call that grass by the water).

If there's anything to improve I feel like the splash comes across a bit simple/textureless compared to the rest, but not sure how I'd draw that in a good way. Maybe darker water...? Nice one.

And yes please! A donut would be great right now.

-cd-

KaileahPNelson responds:

*gives donut* XD
This is one my favorites too and my excitement to get this idea done and finished is what helped did it done in such little time.
The idea of the fish fishing for humans was like the perfect example of revenge lol to bad there wasn't a theme that was revenge, I bet this wouldn't been just as great as bait theme. The cattails were a great touch to help set the scene. I glad that you like it. I saw in your favorites when I was on your page.
Thank you.

[Inktober2019 Day2 - Mindless]

Another coloring book entry hmm... curious if you're making these for the books as the month goes, or picking out entries from earlier books? Remaking earlier motives?

Once again it's a creative miniature landscape motive, seemingly suitable for a latter Halloween post date. :) The forms come across clearer here too. If it's the solid lines, or how the different forms/elements are just easier to distinguish from one another. Looks clear. I like the way the grass bends too. Some of the mushroom hat shading (no idea what you call that bit... mushroom membrane?) seems a bit rushed, but overall solid work! All nicely framed in by the greenery, black and white though it may be.

-cd-

KaileahPNelson responds:

I think its called a mushroom membrane.
To be honest this coloring book one is from a earlier book but the did fit the theme and in the beginning when I started inktober, I was still figuring out what it was. lol
So I thought at the time as I continued to draw, I'd get some advertising done at the same time, by simply giving my fans a small taste in what I have to offer and that they should keep in might that no illustration of mine will be repeated (so backgrounds are never the same, gotta come up with a new one that does even wave to the last one and will be unique on its own)
So details very in each illustration, some on the lighter details so its not too busy while others have heavier detail for those who like the crazy amount of details to color. 50/50

[Inktober2019 Day1 - Ring]

Buggy's World hmm... if it wasn't for the bug I'd have taken that as a One Piece reference. :) The apparition of that cricket did have me chuckling as soon as the image appeared, and the thought of these common insects emitting all but common sounds hmm... that'd be pretty interesting. XD Maybe in a parallel world somewhere.

Feels like the watermark/signature's a little distracting mid-image, but otherwise not bad... the proportions look right too, and you seem to capture both the wind and the width of the landscapes with the forms of the clouds and mountains here. It does feel a little cluttered/crammed together in black and white, but colored in I guess it'd be pretty easy to distinguish between the elements.

Making your own color books too! Impressive. It's been a long time since I tried one of those but it definitely seems like a therapeutic thing. I like the idea.

-cd-

KaileahPNelson responds:

A lot of people like me Buggy's World and the Yodeling Cicadas seems to be popular on NG, or at least hit it off well. I had gotten 5 votes in a matter of a couple of days which would normally take like 2 weeks lol
I actually sold out of my stock of Buggy's World that I had built up, at the last craft fair that I was at. I got 5 therapeutic coloring books out now with a 6th on the way, which is be a patriotic based one in dedication for the soldiers and veterans who fight and fought for our country.
Therapeutic coloring books are very popular nowadays. Its not for kids anymore but for teens and adults to grandparents even.

[Dragonfly]

I know pixel art's meant to be pixelated, but it's strange how this particular wing pattern comes across more as blurry than as the crisp pixel piece you'd expect... the colors converge.

Not a bad form though. Just something about that texture. Too realistic...? Interesting that might work with the wrong way with this particular art form.

-cd-

gatekid3 responds:

some pixel art does have that look though. i think it just clashes with my usual aesthetic