MetalDoom's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Battle Armor Skeletor]

I absolutely adore your art style, Skeletor always looks great in it. Great choice drawing him in the Battle Armor too, it's the coolest variant.

Ninjatron responds:

Thanks so much. I'm really glad to read that. I should eventually make a He-Man and Battle Cat drawing to go with this image as a counter point. Then I'll make both into stickers!

Sayonara.

[ZORAK!!!!]

Looking to the night sky and thinking of him right now...

[Even More Sonic Adventure Style Practice]

Clicked for cool Sonic Adventure styled Metal Sonic, got Mario jumpscare.

Both of these really match the SA art style quite well, very impressive work here.

[Bebop (acrylic painting)]

God, this goes so hard.

[A Dark Movie]

The Alien vs Predator: Requiem experience.

[Bireena :D]

Bi-Han and Sareena art, always a welcome sight. The little devil tail shaped into a heart, this is too cute!

[the ultimate mascot]

Named Smoothie because they've got a smooth brain.

SmoothE responds:

this is true

[Jokers]

why you bein the joker dude

RenTheMonkey responds:

The joker's awesome get off it

[Break the Bat]

You know, I'm something of a Bane appreciator myself.

He's actually my favorite DC character and a top 10 villain as a whole for me, so I very much get that passion for the character. It's funny, I've had almost the exact opposite experience as you when it comes to the art of Knightfall. That interior panel of Bane breaking Batman's back really landed for me when I first saw it. That dynamic onomatopoeia of the crack, the bright orange background that contrasts the two characters, and the bold, almost primal, "BREAK YOU." Even viewed outside the context of the story as a kid who just liked Bane from a design standpoint and was looking for cool images of him online, it hit like a truck.

The cover? I actually wasn't a fan. I think by the point I saw it, I already had my perfect mental image of the character. That overly muscled, monstrously roided up look just didn't suit how I saw Bane. Tend to prefer a comparatively subtle kind of musculature for him, something that reflects the kind of characterization I prefer for him. Still huge, but not to such an exaggerated degree.

As I've become more familiar with Kelley Jones' art style, I've grown to appreciate it that much more. Everything Jones draws is exaggerated, not just Bane. So that ridiculously top heavy beast that normally feels a little out of place in most depictions of Batman, actually fits perfectly within the world he draws. I also get what you mean as that exaggerated style also means that the impact of the back break is much more visually visceral and painful to look at. In the interior panel? Ehhhh, yeah that looks like it hurts. On the cover? Oh my god, his spine is definitely not supposed to bend like that.

You've really done a great of capturing that here, while still keeping true to your style, and I can definitely feel the love put into it. Really great stuff, my man.

HeartisttheArtist responds:

“Why yes, I do like Bane, how could you tell?”

I didn’t mean to come off vindictive, I still have huge respect for Jim Aparo and cannot stress enough how critical his art is to making Knightfall the masterpiece that it is. Everything you’ve described is 100% right, and is the reason that Bane got put on the map as a character. So when I talk about why I don’t think the interior art works as well, it’s my own personal opinion and not something that I want to be taken as fact.

See, this is how the tables turn, because the stuff that didn’t work for you about the cover is why I liked it, or was at least mesmerized by it, when I first saw it. I wasn’t familiar with Kelly Jones’ art at the time, so seeing Batman and Bane depicted so grotesquely and in such a violent scene struck a chord with me—like I said, it was something that scared me as a kid! It’s almost comically exaggerated, but it had the intensity that I was looking for.

Ah, that’s a huge honor to hear! Making it feel like a proper tribute while still making it my own was what I was hoping for more than anything. Thank you so much!

[Let's Go On An Adventure]

You're so real for that description. Fully agreed.