It's All Blooming Now by Knocturne on Newgrounds

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It's All Blooming Now

A sense of dread in our heart
And we wish the sense would fly away
In the night we're finding out
It will play

Our eyes can't tell how deep inside of the hundred billion potholes you can step in without knowing that you have

You should be careful

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SoggothSpawn

2015-05-24 21:03:17

This may be strange but I really love that tree design! The little phantoms remind me of the yokai from Spirited away and the forest spirits from Princess Monenoke. I love how they look both like gas and solid matter.

Knocturne responds:

Thanks! I have a kind of narrative in mind to explain tspirits and the trees but I'm never free enough to do it.

Thanks for the Ghibli comparisons that's very flattering

Decky

2013-11-09 10:09:09

Extremely impressive. The sheer amount of depth that you have gotten from this image is staggering, I'm also a fan of the ghost-like creatures and the textured fade around their eyes and smoke trails, they look truly gassy (in a good way not a blotted, flatulent way). A great use of a mainly neutral colour scheme, keeping the piece easy to look at.

Just a couple of small things stand out to me as needing improvement. The trees seem a lot less crisp then the rest of the image, maybe a very thin black line around some of the edges. The cage hanging from the tree also seems to be lacking. It comes across as an after thought that could have benefited from some more time. I think this could be me but I would have cropped just the top 200 pixels, as it seems like just a little too much space up there.

All in all this is a really good piece of art and one of the best I've reviewed on Newgrounds for a while, keep creating the macabre, you're good at it.

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