Leigh's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Ratfinkesque Thingy]

Hot dogs.

Fucking sick. Favoriting. That's all I've got.

UltraPitchFork responds:

Thanks Leigh. I like your work.

[Leviathan]

Great everything!

Awesome! Really well done. Very painterly, it's hard to tell whether this is digital or not, which I think is something to strive for with digital painting. It doesn't look too Photoshop or anything. The caustic lighting effects at the surface of the water, and the beams of light are really well done. Great atmospheric effects. The design of the creature is great too. Well balanced composition as well. This is an all around very good piece. Awesome.

[BBQBEEFBURGERMAN]

Very funny but not fine art

Seriously, fine art? You honestly think so? Poor craftsmanship, sycophantic, subservient subject matter.

I mean not to knock BBQBeefBurgerman, but fucking move this to Illustration, will you?

CorpseGrinderClock responds:

You wouldn't know fine art if it bit you in the cock you pretentious weasel.

[The overseer]

Furry porn is not fine art.

Plus this is fairly terrible.

Fatchaos responds:

You are right, it is not fine art, I forgot to switch the category, fixed.
While I do encourage for people to speak up their minds, I'd like YOU to tell me why it is terrible...

[the women who left me]

Teen angst.

I appreciate the honesty about your inspiration, and god knows most artists have done the same, god knows I have... but you may benefit from keeping the source somewhat of a mystery. It looks pretty good, but I want to see it bigger, man. The colors are pretty dramatic, if a little too locked into the primaries. The nudity isn't gratuitous, I wouldn't even bother mentioning it. I'm trying to ignore your really angsty presentation of this and take it for its merits, but man, you went pretty fuckin' emo with the title and description. Good stuff though.

bethuneboy responds:

thank you

[Torso]

Beautiful image, sweat pops too much.

I really like this. The highlights on the torso are perfect, and your sense of value and color is really pleasing. This is the kind of stuff I want to see in the fine arts section. At 22 x 30 (inches I assume) it must look really nice in person. Very nice use of medium, and very nice anatomically. You've obviously had some training.

The beads of sweat do look a little too pronounced, I think. That's the first thing that struck me about it. I would guess this is a finished piece, so the critique may be moot, but I would try softening them up a bit. I can't tell if it's because the highlights are too bright, or if it's their shape, or if their edges are too hard, but they do look a little bit like "grains of Rice." It may be that they just need to darken in value along with form. The contrast between the bright white beads of sweat against a few of the midtone areas of the figure might be flattening it out.

This has a sort of bleak, yet sensual and romantic feeling about it. A piece that has emotional weight is always more rewarding to look at. Awesome work, you're very talented.

[the dragon MINI]

Lens flares are horrible shitifiers

This might be a good drawing, but it's way too small, and there's a giant, ugly, stupid lens flare and Photoshop lighting effect thrown on top. The lens flare is an effect notoriously associated with amateur Photoshop users, and it always looks bad, especially to anyone with a deep knowledge of the program. Lighting effects CAN be used well, but again, they are usually a tell tale sign of somebody who's new to Photoshop and just discovered it in the Filters menu. There's also a clouds effect in the background, and a ripple effect for the water; again, really tacky. You don't need all this crap, let your work speak for itself. It looks like there might be some cool stuff going on with that green flame, but again, it's too small to really make out anything in the drawing. It's impossible to judge the drawing at such a small size and with so many tacky Photoshop effects covering it up.

I wouldn't worry about copyright issues for a couple of reasons, one being that you already made explicit copyright agreements when you uploaded it; another, that you can bump up the size a lot higher than this and still make it unable to print at any decent quality; but most of all, I doubt anybody is dying to steal this for a magazine layout or anything, considering the quality of the work.

Overall, I'd say it looks really amateur, and I wouldn't classify it as Fine Art.

Please, this goes out to anybody reading this who is thinking of submitting artwork, PLEASE familiarize yourself with the definition of FINE ART.

And please don't use lens flares. Thanks :3

GuyzwithBongz responds:

First off, Jack ass, instead of assuming you know what went into this piece, you should consult with the artist. Not only is this piece already being used commercially, but It wasn't photoshoped at all. This piece was done one pixel at a time, It took 3 months to do.... NO PHOTOSHOP! At ALL. Its a piece from my graphic novel, which was ALL DONE, BY HAND. It makes me happy that you would mistake it as such, which tells me I did a good job. I read the upload agreements, thats why I didn't upload it at CC. Your just some go no where internet jerk, that spends time criticizing peoples work from your mothers basement, instead of putting out anything worth braggin about. I've made a few thousand from this piece alone. ..... How much have you made from any of your work? Your not only jerk, your big mouthed jackass, who doesn't know what their talkin about. Your feedback was not only not helpful, and not constructive, but it was flat out annoying and pointless...... Oh yeah, and I also get laid regularly, can you HONESTLY say the same? go play hide and go @%#@ yourself. Thanks :3