BrandyBuizel's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Tentacle]

Check it, the colors are amazing and the glint on the tongue is top notch.

Sevi responds:

Thank you! It was largely a practice piece.

[Webby]

Animated paintings are rad as heck dood, sometimes i pop in on streams all ghosty

[Halloween Matilda]

The soft airy palette feels really Autumn, composition and colors on point though maybe a nighttime version would look even cooler?

[Super Crown + Mecha Koopa = Mechette]

Stellar concept and the subtle color change in the lighting makes for such a soft image for a sharp enemy

[Pink Gem Golem]

Subtly pink but right in your face with an awesome yet simple design, please animate it with cool poses ;)

ZeTrystan responds:

hahahaha, wish I had time to do an animation! d: Eh, maybe one day!

[Dream]

Sick visuals.
Do I even have to say it? No. Should I? Only if it's true and makes the artist smile :)

ZeTrystan responds:

It does make the artist smile! :D

[Cloudia]

I'll be right back after I nut; ****ing love it!

LoganPhresh responds:

Steam that nut up and maybe she could absorb it up into her body. Thanks.

[Facility]

Perfect example of low-contrast looking badass with complimentary colors

[Bad day at the castle]

A rainbow of colors in the middle of some action but somehow no one hue outshines the rest. It weirdly works this time.

ZeTrystan responds:

Very hard to deal with imposed colors! :D But I'm happy you think it works

[Kissing Matty Gubler]

So I checked out the original image to compare and I gotta say it makes this piece looks very disappointing. it's almost a totally identical recreation of a posterized version of the photo. You gotta try to take more liberties when it comes to photo studies and portraits, being too close to the source will only hurt the appeal of your artwork; since it's art you should aim to make it better than reality.

The main areas where your piece sticks out because of the box you formed around yourself is the clumped areas of colors, which looks a bit splotchy 1. because the lighting is so complex in the original photo, mimicking it looks like a mistake without dozens of layers of subtle gradation making your piece look like a color-fill-in chart and 2. the colors themselves are gross. Dark washed up browns and red tones, nothing is particularly exciting or eye-grabbing in the composition. It also hurts the kiss marks which look about as dull as the skin and the beard looks like a dirt smudge because it's next to an equally yucky brown.

It looks clear you color picked specific areas of the photo and laid them back down in the same spot hoping for visual cohesion. If you're using photoshop, trying playing with the curves and color balance adjustments after laying down the base coat for a more aesthetically pleasing combination.