XavierStarr's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Rüdiger, der große Vampir]

Lol excellent love that one grave stone specially. :)

[Classy Helen]

All that wants to come out of my mouth is HUBBA HUBBA!

[Airballoons are new, right?]

Really love the detail in the Jurassic beast that is fantastic!

The little dude in the balloon reminds me of a Mage from Magika :D

[apocalipse mermaids battle]

I really like it, the composition is really nice and appealing, you are very talented for your age, keep up the fantastic work.

[T Rex Vs Gaint Robot]

Looks really, I've never been able to master watercolours only oil and acrylic painting, so anyone that can make anything look like something with watercolours is brilliant in my eyes. The T Rex and effects with the flame thrower really stands out for me looks good, best of luck in the competition :)

ArtFromTheHeart responds:

thank you!

[Rugrats + Recess]

This is awesome, so much nostalgia.

[Sherlock]

I like it, colours are nice, looks like you use the same brush what program do you use?

Have you considered exploring different brush types/textured brushes at all.

One think I found that helped me capture likeness in a face was to use a crappy bulky textured brush, and work on a really rought sketch firstly, But if you have a reference photo printed out, or on your computer try focus on one feature at a time, Id draw faces from a magazine, making a circle with my hands and place it around the feature i want to focus on, or use a toilet roll, so you ignore the rest of the face and just work in the shape of that one feature, being either eye/nose cheekbone ect.

But working in the basic shapes for the key features before getting into the detail helps alot also.

Apart from that good piece <3

KingSid1412 responds:

Thanx alot for the tips.....yeh u r right I used the same default round brush of photoshop...I will surely try using different brushes for my paintings and I really liked ur idea of focusing one part at a time....I will surely try that ...... Can't thank u enough.....U helped me alot :D