Monkius's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[train ride]

This (and a lot of your other illustrations) have a very "Alan Wake" aesthetic. Also similar to whenever someone converts a Stephen King novel to visual media. The nearly-vacant train hurtling through a desolate landscape filled only with pine trees here and there is pretty... Ominous. I think it's something of a talent to do horror-themed stuff without having to resort to monsters, murder or jump-scares. Just setting the scene and using implications to create a growing sense of unease.

On another note, the layout of the train car is similar to a metro car, but it's passing through the middle of nowhere; interesting... I second other guy's question.

AtTheSpeedOf responds:

Thanks, Alan Wake has the exact kind of style that appeals to me. The train here is mostly based on the train from Spirited Away.

[Silent morning]

Ah, looks like something The Bob would have painted... Mountains and water and "happy little trees." This is totally going into my desktop-slideshow.

Sabretooth2611 responds:

Oh I love Bob Ross, my friends always make fun of me drawing mountains all the time, but I cant't stop, mountains are too amazing XD Thank you!

[Ocean]

I've just started to make low-poly stuff in Blender, and I can't even fathom how one gets to the point of making something like what you've just posted. Lol, it's kind of fitting that the painting contains a horizon, so I can imagine myself floating around somewhere beyond it.

But yeah, it's also cool how you made it look grainy, like film or high-ISO settings on a digital camera.

Also also, "Twinklestar" turned out great.

SouredApple responds:

Thank you very much! Replicating 3D space is one the things I put most of my effort in to when I paint landscapes. I do a lot of photo studies from both google and local to match how they feel!

Also film grain/noise is an artists best friend for immediately making the piece look more cinematic!

[Hookpinky69]

Sweet robo-appendage, it looks like something salvaged from one of those awesome-and-vaguely-frightening Boston Dynamics robots.

The colours and general gritty appearance remind me of this adult cartoon I watched a long time ago called "Downtown".

Have you considered expanding this from character-only to character-plus-environment?

carmine3 responds:

Thx! :> and maybe ! :- D

also if anyone's curious why I use solid backgrounds all the time lol; I'm struggling to, drawing environment needs putting a lot of thinking imo, and how much a vital role it is to contribute to the character itself-- and sometimes just by thinking that pressures me and always ended up skipping / or at least rushing it xD

[Sheltered in Place - Stills and other perspectives]

Cool! Did you use textures, or did you individually colour the voxels in a "streaks" pattern along the walls? Also, that's sort of a depressing/apocalyptic view of the pandemic. Lol.

What did you use to animate?

Kamikaye responds:

Thx! That is a byproduct of the Pixelated setting of the Magica Voxel renderer I think and me who couldn't wait for a high enough render quality, but I liked and kept it.

[Something to Say]

Wow, that's double-encrypted. "I like it." What exactly does she like? Hmm... I'm going to keep my mind out of the gutter and say it's the modifications I've made to some war machine found in warhammer 40k.

Seems you've accumulated quite a backlog in your absence from NG. Welcome back

Galejro responds:

Techpriestess Megane ain't my character, she was made by www.deviantart.com/lutherniel for a Warhammer Idol thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYTa5xDhqpc&list=PLmjMOYjphH17k7-WCMTMrbpn_s1U23fDP&index=1 so I can't exactly have a say in what she's into... Her target design was to be a music idol, so she'd be into music and arts. So in respect to that I'd see her as a civillian techpriestess, someone who's doing only half duty as a techpriestess and lives as a regular person. She'd be into the same stuff as a regular girl I'd say.

Yeah there's been some works at the back more are coming.

[Super 9999 in 1]

Thru-hole components, I remember those! Lol. On another note, some of your track names are pretty hilarious; "Beaver" and "Diarrhea" are a couple of these gems, and that's only in the 8 sample tracks!

MrRubel responds:

Haha, thanks!

[Station 5 (2013)]

Not only is the gradient on the sky/clouds beautiful, but it's accurate for a place like that; it looks similar to an over-saturated version of a photo I've taken in a place with (okay, no spaceships, but...) a dense human population, lots of pollution, tons of high-rises and tons of cranes erecting new high-rises lol.

Also, I would totally hang out there, as well.

rtil responds:

ironically, sunsets tend to be so much more colorful and vibrant in polluted cities (as long as the smog isn't hiding it)

[winter night]

On the first day of Christmas(ish), radshoe gave to me (and the rest of the internet):
Pixel art with some trees

Heh... Best I could come up with, spur-of-the-moment.

I like the shimmering effect of the snow.

radshoe responds:

Thank you! ^^

[Horizon City Acrylic]

Dude, you are like sci-fi Bob Ross with all the "spacescapes" lately. Boblon Rossk, lol.

(I think Bob Ross worked with oil paint and not acrylic, but still... The "happy little gas giant" in the background is rather excellent.)

Kamikaye responds:

Hahah thanks a lot ! :) I'm really flattered to read that !!