Phronemophobia's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Faggotry]

Kind of amazing... especially the pants. Why do the pants specifically look so good? Do the tattoos mean anything in particular? More importantly, why are you depressed about painting? You make uniquely intriguing stuff.

Fabulous-fishstick42 responds:

school has me burnt out, it feels like everyone is so much better at everything than me.I just have the rest of this semester though then I'm finally done with my bfa. I'm defiantly going to take a year off before I go for my masters.
The tattoos are all queer signifiers :)

[Charlotte]

Charlotte looks like a sweetheart... or, at least, I hope so. Cartoons have taught me to be suspicious of the cute ones.

[vampire moment]

Not sure if he's trying to suck that guy's blood or comb his hair.

[Mario and Rabbids Edge]

Maaaaaan, I just bought this. You better not be spoiling something with this excellent piece of fan art pertaining to a character I am currently unaware of outside of what I've seen in promotional stuff. If you are, I will wag my finger at you in anger... maybe. Wagging fingers is kind of exhausting now that I think about it. Nevermind. I'll just pretend I didn't stop to admire this work and act surprised when I meet a dissected, four-armed person in the game.

Seriously though, the first game was a lot of fun, especially the DLC with Donkey Kong. If you've put in this much effort to represent it with your fantastic art, then I'm guessing the sequel is even better than the original.

MorDoodles responds:

Not to worry, I was just playing with forms. If it somehow gonna end up as a spoiler I'm gonna be really surprised xd

I never played the first one tbh. I downloaded the demo for this and then had so much fun that I just bought it. I will probably try the first one after this one.

[dragon griffin duo]

A cute duo. Scary, too, to think about a team-up like this taking control of the skies. I like the griffin's face having a slight derpiness to it, but, overall, it seems to be standard, classic designs for both, which is fine and dandy for anatomy practice, I'd say. Always best for an artist to put in the effort to solidify one's foundational understanding of how something should traditionally look before taking liberties with it.

Shared this with a friend on Discord who doesn't have a NG account, but he is a fan of both griffins and dragons and has a similar name to yours. His remarks were "Oh yay! Dragon griffin team! I like the expressions" and "Give them an extra like/thumbs up equivalent courtesy of me." The fact that he mentioned "like" and "thumbs up" kind of highlights his unfamiliarity with this site. Heh.

Thank you, TD. (ED thanks you, as well)

[Spirals]

A strong desire to play with a new set of colours, eh? Understandable. I, too, used to do that with new boxes of crayons, markers, and pencils when I was a kid. I had to see what everything looked like on paper. You went with spirals and I either did zigzags or weirdly-shaped blobs with very little space between them. It was the sort of thing a lot of classmates did with the outside of their folders while waiting for the school day to end.

Thank you for sharing, Teo. I hope you enjoy the rest of your day.

TrandafirTeodora responds:

I did enjoy the rest of my day.
Thank you for your kind words.

[Devil's Favourite Hotspot]

Still haven't played the game so this goes above my head. Is there a particular reason why the mirror has conversations with the devil? The devil, by the way, just makes me think of the flamboyant Red Guy from Cow and Chicken and I am Weasel. Under your recommendation, I do have the game wishlisted. I will eventually play it. After that, remind me to come back to this and see if the added context helps me to appreciate this beyond simply admiring the devil's shapely butt cheeks.

ICam2k responds:

Not much other than the fact that it's just a inside joke of mine that pretends to have "world building" and I thought would be funny to add that in (and to make the background less boring).
Surely must be the inspiration since I've seen the official AntonBlast account reference this character several times, although I also think he has bits of Dr Robotnik from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog in terms of facial features like his "black void with yellow beads" eyes (also I love both of the shows as kid, even besides the more popular ones like the Eds and the PPG and the two awful kids with their Grim Reaper being held captive and that fraidy dog living in a lone house with a failed elderly couple and...).
I might, I might not but I might. heh

[SG Art Team St. Patrick's Day Collab]

High quality art for a high quality collab! Happy St. Patrick's Day to you all, as well.

[The green tint that drowns papers]

Outside of the Deep Cut references in the corner, I don't really spot any details. She does have a nice sarcastic grin. Most art I've seen of Marie does not have her smile at all, so the sight of it here is a little creepy to me. Oh, I noticed a picture of "Agent 2", so I guess that explains her look here. I know nothing of the context, but I like how that appeared when I decided to look up official artwork of her smiling to see if they exist. What does the 1 2 3 4 mean? Reading it just made me think of the song by Coolio and now I got "Sumpin' New" stuck in my head. Thanks. I hate it.

ICam2k responds:

Little you know about her crooked smile of death. You fool.
Jokes aside, the numbers are actually the codenames for the agents in New Squidbeak Splatoon once run by Captain Craig Cuttlefish. Kind of an agent team sent in to mantain order in Inkopolis from potential attacks (mostly from Octarians given that campaigns that feature them in). 1 is Callie, 2 is obviously Marie, 3 is the player inkling from S1 (to which is now replaced by the one from S3 as they've been promoted into a captain) and 4 is the one from S2.
Well, excuuuuse me for adding countdowns on scribbled papers!

[Neon City Layout]

Definitely worth sharing on its own. Simple design, nice colors in the sky, and even features my favorite chain of book stores... Fish & Chips.