Reviews for A-Bot

[NekoMika]

Pretty wicked

I actually think this is good. As for your drawing skills I would suggest maybe putting things aside for a few minutes every couple of days and thinking of a simple image. Once you have it in mind try to doodle it on paper or on the computer. If you screw up then it's ok. Just save it and come back to it later when you calm down. Might get a cool new idea for something to add on to it.

The drawing actually looks pretty good. The only thing that could make it even better is if you possibly could have added the sound bars like they are seen in the audio portal along with darnell as well. The image is still pretty sick though as I am enjoying it to the fullest.

The coloring is also very accurate although I would suggest trying to go light at first then draw it in darker shades for each part that needed shading to make it look more 3D like in appearance.

His left leg looks a bit weird along with the eyes. With the leg I would have tried to make it look a bit more forward than going out to the left. As for the eyes I would have tried to add an expression to them as to make it look more like it is either enjoying or hating whatever is being played through its body.

Overall, pretty spiffy!!

[Fro]

I actually quite like it.

~ Title ~

A-Bot, not too original is it? I know the picture is of A-Bot, but coming up with a more creative title could be nice. I really can't complain much as I can't really think of anything else to replace the generic title, but that being said, an artist who takes pride in their work should be taking pride in naming their artwork as well. Like I said though I won't get into this anymore because even I have been known to come up with some generic names. For example, Pyroscape.

~ Background ~

I love drawings of characters, but what I love more is when the character is placed in some sort of environment. Having A-Bot be a bit smaller could come in handy so you could have put him in the audio portal. What might have been cool would have been to make a city resemblance of the audio portal and place A-Bot in it. You could also take this even take this further by taking some popular audio submitters and making cartoon versions of them to put as his "gang" in the background behind him, backing him up.

~ Focus ~

Of course without any sort of background the main focus of this picture is A-Bot. The main focus of A-Bot to me though is the upper body. I feel that you did a superb job of the upper body! There is even some facial expression in this character, which is great as it's a robot and everything.

To me the lower body does have some proportion mistakes. On the left upper leg it's turned towards the front and the bottom is faced off to the left. Now for a human this would be a nasty impossible twist as it seems the pivot section of the hip would be dislocated and the knee it just twisted weird. It is a robot though so twists and turns can be alright since it has the ability to turn in ways that a person wouldn't be. I'm just not sure that's what you wanted.

~ Meaning ~

As the picture is itself there is little to no meaning behind it. There is this expression that comes from the facial structure though. He has this type of serious no-nonsense look, which really isn't the newgrounds type, but meh, he's a robot right? The comments that I made about the backgrounds might add some meaning to the submission.

~ Overall ~

It's a decent submission all around and pretty good if you were just trying to get back your rusty drawing skills.

The Good:

The color is good.
The upper body is great.
Good serious look.
Good line work.

Improvements:

Some proportion problems in the lower body.
A background and meaning would be great.
Add some originality to an already generic thing in some way.

Other:

Why not go ahead and do all of the Newgrounds Bots? I think you have the drawing potential to do them all and with some background work they could help you become scouted quite easily. :)

~ The Fro ~

Sheizenhammer responds:

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OK, now that i'm done fapping over the epicness of this review:

I honestly would never have thought of reviewing the title for a submission of any kind. It's an interesting idea to say the least...
... I can't for the life of me think of anything else to call it either though. I mean, what else is there to say? It's a hand-drawn copy of A-Bot; go figure.
That said, I get what you mean, and if I do make a more serious attempt at a whole picture it'll have something a bit more creative than that at least.

To that effect, there will definitely be a background in any future ones too. I was considering adding a background to this one, but considering it was more of a test I decided against it eventually (hell, this isn't even in the art portal; I marked it as a userpage sketch :P).

I know there were some proportion mistakes, and they pretty much all come from this:
I started by drawing the box for the screen. In my drawing, it's a square, whereas in the real A-Bot it's more of a rectangle. Things just plain didn't fit too well after that, and by the time I noticed I was too far into it to start again. That's the main reason for me leaving this one up and not re-uploading any fixes to it: It's to remind me what happens when you pay too much attention to the little details instead of the picture as a whole. Schoolboy error; won't be doing that again.

I am seriously considering doing the other NG bots, especially since Robot day is officially going ahead. All I really need is GIMP (which I've been meaning to get for ages now), since scaling the scan image down to fit in the portal limits involved the use of MSPaint's horrible .jpeg conversion... which is where most of the colour went this time (the original is at least twice as bright as this :/).

Thanks for the great review! If and when I do the rest, I'll be sure to include them in the Art portal and see what happens. :)

[hreyas]

There's nothing wrong with the drawing but as far as coloring its concerned , it could have been neater :D, Keep on making artworks and be happy