GnomeZome's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Samus at the edge]

Hmmm v.cool!
An almost "Dirty Pair/Ghost in the Shell" take on the classic bounty hunter, with a solid does of Faye Valentine for flavor.
Having not gotten the chance to play the 3d Metroid's any only hear some in passing about Other M's characterization of Samus, it's interesting seeing her show this naked and strong an amount of emotion.
I could see the context of this was her being slightly under cover at f-zero race and having to square up with some space pirate hunting captain falcon, or some such.
In any case, very nice use of light and shadow, and I am impressed with how far you pushed into the yellow for your color palette.
You really made it work.
Thank you for making this.

[Check in with us!]

To the hotel California?
In any case nice red palette, and suitable body horror.
I also like the immediacy of the light and looming shadow effect definitely leads to an excellent oppressive framing.
Thank you for making this.

[Froiday Noight Fuckin]

"BEWARE I LIVE!....RUN COWARD!" -Sinistar
It would be an interesting "they where dead the whole time" if speaker girl was a spectral honeypot for a life siphoning phantom of the karaoke bar.
I really like how dynamic the implied motion of this ism and how wicked the contrast you got working for you here.
Thank you for making this.

[Awaiting Pets (Flats)]

huh; Interesting!
I know you are somewhat dissatisfies with the flat colors, but the paint by numbers like side effect with your very crisp lines, for me leads to an interesting stained glass effect.
Basically the fact that each piece is contained within it own similarly colored outlines, and brighter color pallet gives it that "light shining through" look.
I suppose, if it was set as stained glass, it would be to the patron saint of head pats?
It would be interesting to use light angle trick with the rising and setting sun to have a false animation of the tail over a day? (but that would be alot of math.)
In any case I think this works more that your initial assessment, you impressed me with how strong you carried a brown based color pallet, and I like it quite a bit.
Thank you for making this.

[Inspiration]

It's a slant rhyme I believe but "Practiced Rhythm" ie;
"despite the present pain of a fractured sternum,
they wrote the gifted words with a practiced rhythm."
Nice 4 koma format use, it's interesting seeing the western culture adapt to it because of phones and such as I had grown up with the lateral thinking of boondock Calvin and Hobbs and Garfield.
Do you like working top to bottom, or do you find it limiting?
Thanks for making this.

wormcastle responds:

Thanks for the comment, I never would've thought of "practiced rhythm".
Newspaper comics like Calvin and Hobbes are some my biggest inspirations, so I guess I just gravitated towards that format. I found it limiting at first, but I've gotten used to it, and now I actually enjoy not having to think about how the panels should look and just focusing on the drawings in them.

[cat ears]

If they where nose press activated your could, theoretically;
"Boop the snoot to make the ears poof."
Looks like you had fun with this, and I am happy to say I did as well.
With the switch on mode presenting the same green as the pupils it might work to make the inner crevice of the ear that same green for visual consistency or style, but that might be your thing.
Thank you for making this.

[Mind Craft]

Oh, these are cute.
They have and odd jello like aspect to them,
(context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bco4xBelLWw&ab_channel=steveromano)
Also with their nice segmentation they would make cool push puppets.
Most of all though I really appreciate how you handled the shadows and light source stuff.
They did come out nice.
Thank you for making this.

[Friday Night Miku]

Never sing to me or my son ever again.
Fun mashup, I really like how you blew up the blues in this.
Thank you for making this.

Unposture-mov responds:

Oooooh thank you so much :' )!!! 😭😭😭💖💖💖

[Jackie]

Jackie the yellojacket?
Nice.
There is an interesting optical illusion that occurs because of her thorax, where in it looks like it's her other thigh and that she is extremely thicc with a wasp waist ( a term from extreme corsette users ).
I think once that on closer look the illusion passes and I will say you rendered the figure quite well.
You can't really see musculature through chitton, but perhaps a 2nd set of arms lifting small weight or something would be my ideal cherry on top for this.
Thank you for making this.

[What The Fuck]

"A tale as old as time, a question on my mind, beauty and the beef"
( Beef here more referring to argument or also "where's the beef?" Ad campaign which also a lingering question)
I have no answers, but I really enjoy the minty and pastel greens you are rocking here.
I real like teal as the out line element and nice use of balancing a white in frame against the figures darker markings.
Thank you for making this.