Zerpha's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Terran Medic - Making of]

Really astonishing!

Wow, i supposed that you used many layers for this, but i wouldn't have imagined that they're far over 100!

Some say digital artists aren't able to draw "real paintings" the classic way, but when reading your comment about all these different brushes used exclusively for a certain effect, i'm pretty sure you are great in drawing with real brushes as well.
Although i guess it is still harder since you don't have ten dozen layers you can smooth out seperately.
But i think that's the great thing about digital art, it allows more details and you can't ruin your entire drawing by one mistake.

As aforementioned by SardonicSamurai, her lips look really good.

The light effects look also very realistic, especially the green hoes are asonishing. I guess there are not any tricks you could tell us about this, aside from having a good eye that knows which areas are affected by the light?

Vonschlippe responds:

Thank you for your kind words :D

I must say it helps knowing how the light hits a subject, but there's also a bit of know-how as to how to render the lighting. In photoshop, you can choose the way a specific layer impacts the ones under it (overlay, multiply, screen, pin light, soft light, etc.). Usually a combination of these is what it takes to manage realistic lighting! As for painting light on traditionnal media, I feel a lot more limited because I have to do the work myself, i.e. choosing the colors!

Shame >_< If I could improve this drawing, I would add dust speckles floating around in the light.... I'm very glad you like it!
-Nicolas Kudeljan

[Unlikely Necrophiliac Acts]

Speech bubbles reading order issue

I think most people who read this were like

"But...my mother is dead!"
-"Hey, Lupin! I had sex with your mother!"
-"I know."

then notice that the left speech bubble is obviously not the right one to start with, and then move over to the one on the top right.

Some tips regarding speech bubbles:

They're naturally read from left to right, beginning with the ones on top. (Excluding japanese comics, but this doesn't quite look like a manga :P)

Since both speech bubbles in your images are horizontally on the same level, the left one will be read first.

Place the left one a bit further down, and the right one will be read first automatically.

Just a little trick that can make reading a comic (or in this case, even just a single image) much easier :)

execoot responds:

Let's think it's some kind of new speech bubble.

[Metal Gear Awesome 3]

awesome.

awesome art of the awesome awesome series is awesome.

<deleted> responds:

Awesome.