Hey Guys, I'm just seeking some opinions on the art we decided on for our mybrute style game, Grim Arena. You can see the art at http://www.grimarena.com/community/index.php. Let me know what you guys think, appreciate it very much! :) Don't be afraid to be honest! ;)

Maybe you should just embed the art in the post instead of sending us via unlinked url to a generic, unpopulated forum?

What Pete Michaud said.
I assure you, people will be more than happy to give you a useful response if you take the time to make it convenient for them to view your artwork -- just use html img tags in your post and you should be fine.

Quote: Original post by Pete Michaud
Maybe you should just embed the art in the post instead of sending us via unlinked url to a generic, unpopulated forum?

No need to get all "offensive" here. I've been a member here for several years, and have only given respectful comments. The board is unpopulated because I haven't did a "advertisement push" yet.

I just wanted you to let me know what you guys thought of the Art style, which is posted all over the background of that "unpopulated forum".

The mod is right tho, I could have just linked images in the post and it would have sufficed. At any rate, at least thanks for looking...

Nice, but pretty nondescript...I mean the quality is good, but the style of it just doesn't call much attention to itself. Kinda a safe bland feeling blend of generic american and anime character illustration styles so popular these days. Just fairly harmless and forgettable. Sorry, don't want to sound mean. The execution is quite good but the style just doesn't grab me. I tend to be drawn to something a little bit more bold, iconic, and dramatic (not talking about the poseing of the characters per se)

Quote: Original post by MSW
Nice, but pretty nondescript...I mean the quality is good, but the style of it just doesn't call much attention to itself. Kinda a safe bland feeling blend of generic american and anime character illustration styles so popular these days. Just fairly harmless and forgettable. Sorry, don't want to sound mean. The execution is quite good but the style just doesn't grab me. I tend to be drawn to something a little bit more bold, iconic, and dramatic (not talking about the poseing of the characters per se)

Hi MSW, thank you. This is exactly the kind of remarks I'm looking for. I appreciate your feed back greatly.

Personally, I like your art. It's not the most original art style ever, but it's well drawn and it looks rather good nonetheless. Besides, being more into realistic art styles myself, I'm not really a big fan of super stylized art anyway.

It most likely does the job, unless your game has settings that disqualify your comic style. (Like if it's a dark and serious game, for example.)

That's all I can tell for now. The art is quite small on my computer screen so I can't go in more details. The only characters I see in details are the skull and the samurai.