RealTin3Sn's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Am I Beautiful, Too?]

YESSS TESSA!

I love every part of this, especially the blush and the hair!

Shiverwar responds:

I love drawing her! She and Nora are, like, my absolute favorite to draw, to be honest, and I've been meaning to draw more Tessa! I wanna do more of her!

[Man, I'm Pretty~]

I'm in love~!

Shiverwar responds:

Thank you, mate!

[The Shadow Within Myself, Personified]

Somehow still super sexy!

Shiverwar responds:

You seem to have a thing for me. Is there something I should know about?

Nah, but seriously, thank you!

[I'm a Maid Now?!]

PERFECTION!

HE LOOKS JUST GORGEOUS!

Shiverwar responds:

Thank you! This was a little embarrassing to do, but I actually had so much fun with it, too! Maybe I should do more...

[Shiverwar Wallpapers and Fullbody]

Why is he so cute and beautiful?! 😊

Shiverwar responds:

I mean, he's supposed to represent how I'd like to appear, soooo... I guess that means I'm cute?

[A Nice Day for Going Outside]

CUTEEE!

That's a great shirt on Nora too.

Shiverwar responds:

I see you're a big fan of Nora~

[The Afterglow of Love - Tessa]

Aaw that's so sweet and relatable!

Shiverwar responds:

Tessa is absolutely beside herself~! This was so heartwarming for me to draw, especially since I wanted to make the counterpart to Nora's. I'm trying to make backgrounds, and though I'm not really that good at it, I think this one works~

[The Afterglow of Love - Nora]

Really amazing!

It's such a sensual and heart-fuzzy picture! Nora looks so beautiful here.

Shiverwar responds:

Thank you! I haven't done a purely wholesome one of Nora in a while, so this was nice to do. I plan to do one for Tessa next!

[You Don't Have To Prove Yourself.]

This is so sweet Shiverwar. Proof it doesn't just have to be all fun or sadness or sexiness, just something wholesome sometimes works.

I'm gonna fave this and I might set this as my Valentine's background.

Shiverwar responds:

Yeah, with the stories I've got going on, they focus more on the little moments than sexiness, though with Lilac the sexiness IS gonna happen (just not explicit stuff, more like she's trying to do anything to break him and it just isn't working, and she ends up gradually falling in love with him instead). This is during one of his weaker moments when he tries and fails to stand up for Lilac when a group of goons tries to solicit her (though given she's a demon she could easily take them out herself). Instead of admonishing him for being weak or pathetic or anything, all she wants to do is reassure him that he doesn't have to try so hard because he's already proven his worth to her in a different way. She just wants him to be himself and to continue doing what he knows because when he's in his zone, that's what she wants to see. Julian's sense of self-worth has been in the tank for years, but until this point in their budding relationship he's kept it behind a very well-kept mask. Only, as he helped Lilac get used to the human world and even start to enjoy being there, he can't help but feel that inferiority again, because she has everything he wants: he wants to be strong, carefree, a better stature, and overall just being a better person. After being beaten to hell and back, his self-loathing reaches a breaking point and, while Lilac's asleep, he starts trashing his study, his primary sanctuary, in a fit of inferiority-fueled rage. Lilac wakes up to this, and Julian starts telling her to say that he's weak, that he'll never measure up to anything, because if he can't even be strong enough to protect her, then what good is he to her? That's when she leads him to the bedroom and just focuses on consoling and reassuring her human partner, hence the picture. She doesn't care that he's physically weak or that his lung disease (unmentioned) keeps him from being able to protect her, because she's more than happy to be the protector instead. She knows that if she's ever in danger herself, regardless of his own weakness, he'll be there to endure it with her, because that's just the kind of person she knows he is. She spent the first few months of being in the human world focused solely on making his life hell and tormenting him, but to seemingly no avail. In truth, he had been internalizing all the insults and all of the attempts at making him miserable because even before he met her, that was all he really knew anyway: being alone, his mother having thrown him away at age 15 (she's an absolute headcase of a zealot who constantly said he was pretty much worthless because of his stunted height, his lung condition, and his odd eyes being a mark of evil). His uncle was the one who got him back on his feet and even left him the estate when he died, so Julian lived alone for a while before his studies bore fruit: summoning a demon, hence Lilac. Turns out, they were the best thing to ever happen to each other.

Sorry for the friggin' novel of a response. Once I started, I just couldn't stop!

[Why'd You Do That, Idiot...?]

This might be the best of every artwork you've made thus far!

Take a fave and I'll post about this on BlueSky.

-Tin.

Shiverwar responds:

You can also follow me on there, too! Thank you for your kind words!