Twoeliz's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Tails & Cosmo - "Summer Memories"]

You did such a fantastic job with this. Seeing Tails and Cosmo makes me so happy, and then there are Chao in the picture so it truly captured my heart! I also saw the poster with Tikal and they all look so cool! Keep it up!

RikoandTako responds:

Thank you Twoeliz!!!
I'm happy it resonated so much with you aha, I'll keep working hard for sure!

[5 Little Ducks]

So, this is something from your dreams huh? That is very interesting, and I guess it somewhat explains the weirdness. I was captivated by the colors and the 2 small birds staying together in the small thumbnail and then I saw the full picture. There was so much to take in, skulls on fire, a tornado and other birds hiding. I started to wonder why they were hiding in turtle shells but I guess that is something that we will never know.

PD-Cartoons responds:

Dreams are just kinda weird like that

[Translucence]

I think that the reflections on this are tremendous. It is incredible how shiny the wings look and how it affected some near by plants.

[superstar saga]

OH MY GOD IT'S PRINCE PEASLEY AND HIS FLYING PILLOW~!

[Cow Maiden in the Woods]

This is definitely a pretty impressive illustration! The texture on the fur is amazing and the way the cloth waves gives the illusion of so much movement. Everything is so frosty and nice too, This little red bird brings so much life into the drawing. If I were her, I would also be happy to see such a pretty bird. The expression is so gentle and loving. Very nice!

MookGames responds:

Thank you for the kind words!

[12 Hare-y Months]

Aw this was so fun to read. Looks like they are still looking for their home dimension and this one was close. I like to think that in that section when Horald asks where the snow is at, that suddenly a bunch of snow fell on him out of nowhere, probably from a large tree or something. I was wondering if the seasons in this dimension really go crazy like 1 minute is winter and the next is spring. I thought that only a sudden change could make her fall in the mud like that looking her balance or something but hey at least there was a nice lake to take a dip in! but speaking about the crazy weather how long did she waited for her brother to come out of the ground? I couldn't imagine waiting 3 months for someone haha I hope that the weather was truly crazy, and it was just a few hours or a day. I do like the extra details you added to the background. It really makes the viewing experience much more enjoyable!

NothanyTPM responds:

Thank you! For a mostly improvised comic it turned-out really well.

So the funny thing about this comic is that it started-out as just me making fun of the weird weather I had in early 2024 before turning it into an ongoing story.

As for the weather in this dimension, I deliberately kept that a mystery. Time still passes between each comic page for the most part (it was a monthly comic strip), but how much is never mentioned. I just thought it would be a fun little gimmick for this dimension along with the colour limitations.

Now the real mystery is how Rathrie found the tea cup, blanket, towel, and soap. Although, she could have found them in an abandoned shack somewhere while exploring.

[A Very Christmasy Carl]

There is something about this drawing that I really like. It has some coziness to it that seems realistic. It's like " yeah time to relax but I also had a very stressful day" She looks so sleepy but also wants to stay awake to enjoy that drink. By the way, you did a wonderful job with the lighting!

GrumpyShrimp responds:

Pretty cool that you could get a tiny bit of story from it

Also thank you :]

[Made Ya Look!]

This is extraordinarily smooth! I do like the flipnote version a lot but that's probably because I have a soft spot for that era. I see that this is over 100 frames, I wonder how many frames we see per second.

NothanyTPM responds:

Thank you! And no it's not 100 frames, it's 35 frames @ 24fps. I was just saying how I need to find ways to automate this when I eventually do 100+ frame long animations. Because copy/pasting and moving around 35 frames to make an animation strip in Inkscape was already tedious enough.

I also agree with you that the Flipnote version looks better. Mostly because I just hit the "convert to vector" button, and didn't really bother changing much. though, the goopy look does give it its own style, I was more interested to see if stuff like Inkscape or a web browser could handle a silky smooth 24fps animation like that. And it did, so expect more of these little animation experiments in the future!

[May Doodles]

The first picture with the tree isn't very impressive. It seems a bit flat because of the lack of branches but the sky on the other hand is somewhat nice. The clouds just look random and chaotic as clouds usually do. I like the drawing with the fence and streetlight much better even though that the bush see-throughness is a bit strange. But of course, the best of these is the animation one. It made me chuckle how the ball came for a second round just to hurt the stick figure one more time!

NothanyTPM responds:

I agree with you that the first one isn't all that good. It was basically just a quick & dirty drawing just to get a feel for how Colors! 3D worked. The night time one was a more serious drawing with a quick mental reference. Although, I still don't know how to properly draw bushes in Colors! 3D. It has this texture brush, but it's only good for making grass, and not tree leaves since it's always translucent. I'll think of something.

Glad you like my little animation! I liked making it too, and it got me back into the groove of using Flipnotes again. Haven't touched Flipnotes in around 5-10 years.

[Weeks of Colors!]

I really liked the fourth drawing. It had this sort of mood as if one of the bunnies was lost. I did not realize it was raining until I read your description about it so I looked closer and then I was able to see the very thin strokes for the rain. The fog was pretty good, everything is just so hard to see which makes since, it is rainy. I imagined that it was probably a swap or something similar, not only for its shape but also the color choice. It gives it a somewhat gloomy feel without being the typical blue. The city one was also interesting. I have experience drawing with colors! 3D so I could imagine how this could look like with its different layers and it's dept was vivid for me. though, I have to admit, the way it corrupted plus your follow up made for a very interesting concept. ''Holrad gets corrupted'' is probably my second favorite of these pieces! City night might have the most impressive shading of the bunch but I find that the other 2 have a greater charm to me.

NothanyTPM responds:

Thank you! The fourth one is also my favourite. The last few have more details in them, but gloomy look of the fourth one looks so nice. I tried to make the rain drops more visible in that one, but I didn't turn-up the opacity on the brush high enough while drawing them, so they're practically invisible unless you zoom-in. Oops

Also, these were a bit challenging to draw in Colors! DS. The DS original only has 1 layer, no eraser, and you can only undo once. The trade-off being that it saves in a higher quality PNG (Colors! 3D saves in jpeg), and if you're using an older DS you can get pressure sensitive brushes.

I've been using both Colors! DS and Colors! 3D, and I have a hard time deciding which is better. 3D has the better tools, while DS has the better image quality. They're both good drawing apps though.