LemKuuja's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Cool Kid Sif]

Is this a flash drawing?

WooleyWorld responds:

It's photoshop.

[Shading practice]

Shading practice?
More like "Dat Ass" practice! TEN OUTA TEN!

[Color]

After looking at his portfolio, I realized...
This guy digs boobs!

[Red]

How the fuck do you make this sort of distorted-almost-stereoscopic3D-like kind of thing?
Are you gonna go like "Nyahahah! That's my secret method for my own artstyle!".
Dude, pls tell me :(

[Redux]

EHRMERRGERRD DEM GWWAAAPHIX!
I really wanted to ask you earlier... What graphics card do you have?
I see it can handle dat much shayt, does it lag or so?

Kel-chan responds:

it lags like a mofo!

Actually these are made using the CPU, as DAZ uses the CPU to render things which makes pretty pictures. Sadly I cannot animate with this level of graphics as it would take months to render a 20 second animation. BUT ALAS! I have another program that can render animation with pretty good graphics but they look a little more videogamey

[The Picture of My Old Account!]

Love it! How could you not love this?

CheeseCakeLOL responds:

Ikr! I will upload yours soon :D

[Senna]

BLAAM THIS JUSTIN BIEBER HAIR!

Kel-chan responds:

huehuehue

I originally had a longer hairstyle but I wanted her character be the ultimate douchebag and worst jedi ever....

so bieber hair

[Life is hard...]

I lol'd at the adult chocolate milk! g'work!
Your life will get back to normal soon, it's not gonna take more than 2 weeks I suppose, right?

CheeseCakeLOL responds:

Thx babez!
Naah, I think It'll take the least of 1 month...
But it's okay, I mean... I'm good at pretending that I'm not sad!
*heart shatters to pieces T-T*

[L'Inventaire]

Are they doing taxes, or what?
Amazing work and choice of colors, as usual! :D

[Samus In Color]

Wow, dude! This is just truly amazing! I've been staring at this picture for over an hour now!
Like seriously, how do you even get so good at drawing? Sometimes I draw things and feel like "wow that's a masterpiece". And then I go to newgrounds to show it to people and I find you, and then I feel like a little bitch because of how good you are!
I've been trying to copy the way you shade in your other pictures *look at my cammy drawing*. And I do believe I failed horribly.
I would really like to know how you've been through while you were learning, do you have any sketchbook showcase that I can look at?
Also, one more quick question.
How do you color? I've seen the monochrome version of this picture. Do you put colors on layers on top and Overlay?

Mahjix responds:

Thanks for your review! I'm glad you like it! You get better by drawing more and more along with the will of exceeding your own capabilities. Judging by your gallery, I can definitely see some progress in your work so just keep doing what you're doing and you'll get there in no time. The thing I did when I first got a tablet was find an artist I looked up to the most. When I was younger, I really enjoyed the artwork from Darkstalkers 3, Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter and Marvel vs Capcom A LOT, so that was my starting point. I used to use those as, sort of, a reference (and still do, sometimes!) to find out what it was that made those artworks look so well in their simplest form. Sometimes, I would draw the characters as I saw them just to get an idea of how everything worked and try to understand what Bengus (the artist for these games, if I recall correctly) saw.

After a while, I ran into Kim Hyung-tae's artwork and fell absolutely in love with his style. I used that as a bar to reach and with each time I colored something, my goal was always to have something that resulted in something of his flavor (my Iishi Haruko piece [which is also my current avatar] would be the best example of homing in on his style). This led me into all sorts of areas of study in regards to shadows, color theory, harmony, soft vs hard shadows etc. I found it also good practice due to his intricate character designs and poses; a lot of other artist sort of follow the same generic base design, however, Kim's work is more elaborate and surreal, yet, visually appealing--that's a different discussion, though.

Once I became more aware of how it all works together and reached that bar, I started venturing out of that comfort zone and began to expand out into more art styles and approaches to certain situations in search of my own. Samus, here, is an example of me testing out the waters of portrait/semi-realism art as well as starting off in gray-scale with color overlays as opposed to working directly in color (I think that answers your latter question).

Of course, all of this worked for me so the same method may or may not work for you, and I still have much to learn myself so I'll refrain from making any blunt suggestions. Again, just keep doing whatever it is that you're doing; the progress is definitely apparent.

Also, I don't really have a sketchbook... thing... per se, but I have a deviantART with more of my work:
www.MrEdison.deviantART.com