RickSteubens's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Franklin Booth study]

As someone who's taken a lot of "inspiration" from Booth, I'd say try loosening up with the hatching, and keeping lines more continuous. If you look closely at his patterns, the actual strokes follow contours veyr naturalistically, and you can push these curves to add much more depth. You can see how your lines straightened out when you moved to the inkwork. He also subtly plays with line weight a lot more, see if you can push it to the level he has going on.

Personally, I love your pencil sketch more for those reasons, it feels less rigid which helps a lot in the flow of the piece. Franklin is less "tight" than you would expect, his sharpness comes more from line placement and control rather than the parallelicity of the linework itself. I think if you reattempted the pencil sketch at like, a 25% larger scale, you'd be able to add more detail and lines in for each of the surfaces, and that would do a lot to pop it out.

IAMPIXELS responds:

Wow. I really appreciate your insight, especially coming from someone who also admires Franklin's work. When working on it, I got the impression the hatching was overdone in retrospect, and I'm glad you pointed that out. I'll keep your points in mind going forward. 🙏

[GARN47]

sick

[Meet the artist!!]

rip gord downie

[The Monkey Began his Tale of Woe]

this is actually one of the hardest images of all time

[Self-Indulgence]

damn man for a second i thought he wasn't wearing pants and my fight or flight kicked in

[the shining, jack torrance]

dude this is insane, the tone and depth

[Mildred's Midnight Snack AND MORE!!!]

i love the lizard in the little sneakers

[Gondolas]

fugg

[catgirl thought sequence]

set theory and neco arc, beautiful merge of two different forms of cancer

MachiToons responds:

should've shot Cantor whilst we had the chance, you're right

[Chris with the Pipes]

dude that video had no right to go that hard