JGZILLA98's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Misty Night - Dismal Moon]

The colors here really work for me because even though I imagine this a forest of some kind the color palette really reminds of this painting I own of palm trees from what I assume is Miami that I bought in a Goodwill many years ago and still have to this day. Even though I was a 2000s kid I grew up on a lot of older media such 60s, 70s and 80s scifi, action and horror films like "Robocop" or "The Thing" and I was also really into monster movies like the Godzilla films and Ultraman.

Yeah no surprise I really love the 80s aesthetic and massive fan of Synthwave culture but anyway back to the painting.

What caught me off guard is how much this really reminds me of the ending to Hotline Miami 2, when the nukes finally dropped, everyone's dead and you load back into the menu screen with that somber but calm melody reflecting on the entire series of events you just witnessed.

Like I said it could just be the colors giving me those vibes but seeing would could've been originally palm trees now burned to a crisp in this now barren wasteland to what originally was once a vibrant, beautiful but violent place to be now reduced to nothing.

Your landscape artwork really is beautiful and really captures this sort of liminal space vibe where your kind of stuck between two places but you don't mind it, as if for a brief time your free of thought , space and time just appreciating that you had the chance of existence regardless whether or not the lives we lived even mattered. It's artwork like this that reminds me that there is more than just the world around us, while I am by no means religious there's a very spiritual feeling I get from this piece.

A feeling that I by all means welcome... Thank You.

Oh I still have the painting if you wish to see it, I use it a lot on my YouTube channel as I background for my videos. Just let me know where I can DM it for you to see it.

LittleLuckyLink responds:

Thank you so much! I definitely can relate on an attraction to the 80's aesthetic. I've definitely been thriving with this "80s revival" thing that's been going on much more prominently in these past few years. I'd definitely say it's a huge influence, even on projects where it may not be intended. I'm glad that this gives off a sorta liminal vibe, many of my landscapes are rooted in my own experiences of frequently wandering off into the night and off the grid. I'd definitely love to see that painting by the way! I can check out your YT, you can dm it here, twitter, most socials as well should be good :)

[dead homes bleed black]

It's giving me the same vibes liminal spaces do, I just sit there and stare as if I was there constantly waiting for something to happens yet it never does. It's an interesting feeling of emptiness but in a weird way it's a almost peaceful emptiness, I don't know how to explain it, it's that kind of emptiness where you aren't happy or sad you're just there you know? I hope this makes sense in some fashion. You did a very good job here as the colors go really well together and really reminds of something I saw from my childhood what that is though I can't recall but if I remember I will update this review. I imagine you were going for a silent hill vibe? Either way it's a lovely piece regardless.

LittleLuckyLink responds:

Thank you very much, you were pretty spot-on! This is a vague re-interpretation of a dark, lonely road that is my favorite part about my bike ride home from work. I don’t exactly live in the middle of nowhere, but this specific road is surrounded by vast fields to the left and right, with a row of dark, newly developed houses off in the distance.
I find this aesthetic to be very interesting, a peaceful emptiness as you described. The silhouettes of the empty homes pierce the horizon with blackness. I wouldn’t say that Silent Hill was a direct influence to this piece, but given Silent Hill’s massive impact and influence on pretty much everything I do, I wouldn’t deny it :)
The colors were very difficult to pull off here, as this was actually the “last straw” for me in the sense that I decided to look into purchasing black watercolor paper as opposed to white (which this was painted on.) Even though the white paper is decent, loading all of those colors in put some stress on the paper. I’ve got a few similar paintings coming out soon, and I intend on using the black paper. I think they should turn out pretty neat. Thank you for the review!

[Hustle - Shaun SRT4]

The OG 2 Fast 2 Furious before the Skyline replaced it.

Also

RACE.

CAR.

GO.

BBBBBBBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. (INSERT EARRAPE HERE)

mattyburrito responds:

oh yea I never knew that haha I thought they were gonna have Paul Walker drive it instead of the Evo 7

[Hustle - EK9 Girl]

Bruh mad Kill Bill vibes here, Love it regardless... RACE CAR GO BRRR!!!
I can't get that out of my head now LOL

mattyburrito responds:

who coined that phrase?? loll also tysm! I was trying to base the outfit off of Leifang's DOA6 outfit

[Hustle - Dudaru]

I am an American car guy but I have a huge soft spot for JDM cars too (Thanks Initial D LOL), I love the art style and the whole story you're building with them is pretty cool. In other words RACE CAR GO BBBBBRRRRRR!

mattyburrito responds:

thank you! I love JDMs too - 'Race Car Go BRRRR' is literally like all I know about them tho haha