ShadenLines's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Jenny holding leg in intense worry]

Quite colorful....do wish there was a bit more of a background, but it's good for what it is.

Have you ever done sketches like this on paper, with markers or colored pencils, etc? It would be interesting to see how it would turn out in trad media.

SerndestsArt responds:

In terms of fully-colored, non-grayscale traditional art really close to my “pencil line-and-wash” digital art, I’ve slightly experimented with traditional versions🤔(including with colored pencils and markers🙂👍) Not mostly in red colored pencil linework like here, but I’ve done a couple. (Coincidentally, I did one of my experiments ~the same time as your comment!😂)

My 1st, traditional “pencil line-and-wash,” almost monochrome sketch was in colored pencil and watercolor on Canson XL cold-pressed watercolor paper, done on Feb. 24. My 2nd experiment was a complementary-colored (by a mouth and eyes😉) smaller quick sketch, done with a fude nib fountain pen, fountain pen ink, 2.0 mm lead holder, 2.0 mm red lead, and alcohol markers in my Pentalic Traveler Artist Sketchbook/Traveler Pocket Journal. This doodle/small sketch was done on Feb. 29. (I didn’t see your NG comment due to also having college homework.🤷‍♀️😵‍💫)

While the sketches themselves were not drawn best imo😥, I loved how they both looked in these mediums!😊If I wanted my quick sketches to have multi-colored, more smoothly-colored blocks, I think I’d use alcohol markers: they bleed, but they have far quicker prep and dry times, especially as a commuting and campus-traversing college student.🙂

I’ll describe more sometime, in my “SerndestArt's Sketchbook” Art Forum (including the thumbnail and recordings of the 1st experiment).

[Metal Demon]

As a dedicated metalhead when I was in high school, I would've been thrilled if this had actually happened at any of the concerts I went to.

[A Wisconsinite]

*lol* She looks like she's not enjoying the session!...

[Piss Smoking Alone]

I like this one....but then, I like skeleton-themed art in general.

The guy looks very much at ease. I take it that isn't a cigarette between his teeth. >|-D

[MMVII]

This is the first self-flagellating animated GIF I've ever seen.

[Lunar New Year]

People celebrate the lunar new year by going in a pixelated mecha-caravan & shooting anything that moves??...

But seriously, it's good. Cute in an "80's Mario Brothers" kinda way.

[Stained Glass Tile]

Nice. The design is a bit centralized & even for my taste but then, with stained glass work that's probably part of what makes it what it is. Extra points for exposure of a traditional craft in a venue where we never see it...that is, online.

[Comura trilobite OC ref]

Except for the jewelry & the gold stripes on his dorsal spikes & legs, this could be an OC for me. Nothin' out there as retro as a trilobite.

[nurse]

Cute, but she looks a little too eager to give me the shot...

Good use of perspective, btw.