Radaketor's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Big Bullies]

You really captured the soulless beady little eyes of Khan in this one

AcidX responds:

cheers man, yeah it took time to get his unique plastic looks convincingly accurate

[Spilled Milk]

Considering Dave, I'm surprised what he spilled wasn't something else.

ChazDude responds:

Many things were spilled that day...

[Potatoman Begins: Page 12]

Neat, sorta like some knock-off underground X-Men.
But instead of cool powers they're all horribly mutated.

ChazDude responds:

And only one will rise to greatness...

[Inktober Day 11]

Not sure if dick or pubic hair joke.
Either way, fun stuff.

ChazDude responds:

Now that you mention it, probably pubes :P

[The Tale Teller No Densetsu Wallpaper]

I really liked that animation as well, it's actually one of my favourites. It's cute to see them now portrayed in such a small pixely scale with other characters of Jazza around them and their stories happening in the background.

I noticed two things that I think you might've done by accident, though, although if it's strictly for the aesthetics I guess I can understand. The fountain seems to not be in a correct angle in relation to the main characters, they look flat on the ground like we're seeing them directly in front of us (like they're across the street, for example) but the fountain is tilted in a way that it looks like we're seeing it from almost directly up above it. And the second little thing was that the story told to the poor woman who couldn't feed her children doesn't seem to be given as much space as the other two, making it seem less important, maybe it was because you ran out of space for them due to the water-fountain?

But aside from those two little things I really liked it, I also believe you put up some sort of effect overlay over the above scenes, right? Makes them looks smudgy and stained while also standing out better from the bright clear colours of the characters down bellow as they happily listen to the tale teller once more.

ScepterDPinoy responds:

Thanks for the criticism. I really enjoyed the animation but I do apologize that this wallpaper was a bit rushed due to silhouette characters that I will risk in copyright infringement and trying my best to position the fountain if possible but doesn't feel accurate in your perspective which I agree on that. I will have a shit ton of week to do other stuff next week.

[Beware these Woods]

Really like all the different shadings and textures for the trees you put into this one, the only one that stood out negatively was the one behind the monster's right horn with very plain squiggles on the trunk.

I'd like to know where you get inspiration for some of these or do you just start doodling and see where it goes?

ThePulp responds:

oh well I started a method of testing both ideas and methods with just drawing full pieces off the bat

in this one I was testing foreground/background value and shadows

I had a vague idea in my head and I just started drawing

at least 30% of the drawing process involves covering up some minor mistakes

oh yeah the one stand-out tree bothers me too haha

[Potatoman Begins: Prologue]

Think it needs some cool comic book cover to really get people hyped for his origin story but it's still neat like this anyway, just coming across him all of a sudden in his hide-out, I'm really curious to see what he looked like before he was a potato superhero. Would've figured he'd have some hot potato-on-potato action playing on his computer instead of a hit-list, though.
Your idea of submitting a page every week is kinda cool, makes it feel like a real comic.

ChazDude responds:

I had made some art for a poster or something like that, and this comment reminded me to actually finish it, so here it is:
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/8933b164c413eb2f3a545b597278213c

Nothing too fancy. Maybe when chapter 1 is done I'll draw a proper cover c:

[Age Of Trolltron]

Cock-teasing us with that greatest joke ever written, eh?

Neato 500th edition filled with references and throwbacks to past strips you've made, it's the little things like the lighting emanating from something that's obviously supposed to be glowing, the smudges in the ye ol scrolls, the blur of things in the distance and the textures in backgrounds/characters are always nice to see, a display of how much detail you like putting into all your works. Plus a cool continuation from the 200th and 250th specials.

There are a few slightly useless panels like when the King's telling the story and he just suddenly stops, looked a bit like you were just trying to give another row of panels but who knows, it might've been some joke I totally missed. Also the text used in those scrolls could be a tad hard to read sometimes, had to click the comic and zoom in sometimes just to read it.

Really liked it, both looking forward to whatever next special you make and to see both Dave and Carl in their day to day life. Here's hoping you get to the 1000th eventually!

ChazDude responds:

It's these long reviews of yours that always put a smile on my face. Thanks :)

(btw I've calculated that #1000 comes out on Halloween 2019, so while #600 may not be that special (sorry) keep an eye out in several years)

[Volter's New Weapon Pt.3]

Bit sad that we didn't get to see what the trio hallucinated this time while on their potato powered high but I imagine those were getting kind of annoying and repetitive for you to think of and draw.

The 7th panel looks exactly like it was drawn on MS Paint if it weren't for the light effects on those little blue holes, but the rest of the comic was nice looking, especially the surprisingly animated part, Potatoman's look on that last panel is simply wonderful, just hope Carl won't empty his stomach in the next edition, he seems to be feeling a bit sick already.

Hope this isn't the end of their adventure but I can't really think of what other formats you'll be able to implement (if you're even planning on doing so), maybe one of those that looks like ascii art would be cool.

ChazDude responds:

I agree, panel seven saddens me to some extent -_-

This is the end of this mini-series, but something even bigger is coming (as well as more gifs :D)

[Volter's New Weapon Pt.2]

Cool how you still kept Dave and Carl in their low resolution selves even while in good quality looking locations, I'm a bit curious of how you did that, actually. Did you draw it first then converted it to a jpg with low quality, afterwards made it a png once again with transparent background to add on top of the comic or?

I don't think I ever noticed Potatoman was Irish, thank good for that Irish doorstep and neato for you for referencing a previous comic in this one, gives it a feel of continuity that's often missing in your comics, like when either of the protagonists get maimed/killed.

ChazDude responds:

I copied and pasted Dave and Carl onto a seperate canvas (using paint.net's magic wand tool) and saved it as a .jpeg, then I posted it back into the main file.

And a bit of continuity is nice every now and then.