OmarShehata's art Reviews on Newgrounds

["Studio" Life]

This is beautiful! Thank you for sharing the detailed behind-the-scenes write up! I was wondering many of these questions as I often do when looking at work like this, and resigned myself to "ah, what's the point, I'll never the answer" and was absolutely delighted to read this. It even made me pay more attention to the piece, I hadn't thought about the book covers being blurred, or that the Monster cans were open vs closed.

My first thought when seeing this is that I was 100% sure you decided to look away very intentionally, either because you preferred to remain anonymous despite the self portrait or because you just didn't enjoy drawing faces. So that was a big surprise that that part was a bit of a lucky happenstance!

[BETTER CALL SAUL]

This is such an incredibly well done tribute! I love the use of color echoing back to the show. In that scene, the laptop screen was the only thing in color, the only remnant of Saul's past. Here, the chord being the only thing in color feels like the last thing Jimmy is desperately trying to use to hold onto that past. And that's very visible in his expression.

I also love the contrast of young, charming, Jimmy and disheveled Saul here. It just captures this last moment beautifully, when both we in the audience and Saul thought there was a small glimmer of hope of getting out on top, one last time.

[Scene from Severance "Defiant Jazz"]

This looks amazing! I appreciate the closeups too. There's just an amazing level of detail here. I love the lighting on Adam's right arm in particular. I admire how you're able to capture that feeling of fabric and texture here.

[Aether]

Absolutely beautiful! It feels mesmerizing staring at those clouds and imagining soaring above. I feel like I want to see this printed super huge in a museum gallery!

[Hollow Knight (loop animation)]

It's beautiful! I love the lighting and the wind and the ominous spider corpse in the background.

I feel like you really captured the feeling of being lost/feeling alone/scared I got being stuck in that area.

chobaka responds:

Thank you!

[Mapletown Mech]

Looks really cute! I love the lighting in this spaceship, and how the flickering screen reflects against her.

Is this a mock up/concept art for a game idea?

RatiusFatius responds:

Maybe. Just an idea I’ve been having for a while

[The Main Cowardly Heroes!]

Love it, they look so cute!

[Wayfarer]

Beautiful! What mountain is this? Looks like Matterhorn.

[Uncle Otis]

I clicked thinking this was Attack on Titan fan art - getting the same vibes here!

[Odin & Sleipnir]

This is just absolutely epic and breathtaking!