Gryphon's Art Blog

Maybe I can actually get some requests out of the way before the holidays...

Have a Sonic-style moth FC.

Draconic? I’ve been working on it. Still trying to hammer out the story.

7) Please just make me DRAW

Oh, I learned something today. The guy’s voice you hear in the Time Attack parts of Sonic Mania is the same guy who did vocals for stuff like Daytona USA and also these two songs way back in the day.

He tends to be moping a lot in most of my doodles. There’s a reason for that, and some Sonic fans might already have an idea as to why, but I’ll have to explain when we get past that bit.

He sleep

I'll do some research and post an update on this later.

Somethin’ buggin’ you?

alone on a friday night?

Still interested? Drop me a message!

Thanks for asking, I’m feeling pretty good! :)

Guess who’s got two really sore thumbs AND just beat Sonic Mania?

sad dragonhog pokes at a rock

Old animation project in Flash that I never finished. The rest of the story would have turned out essentially like the mirror scene in Generations.

“The title for this particular story was Sonic Depthcharge, since I was running on the theme of Sonic series titles. Along the way, Sonic is assisted by some of his old friends, including Marine the Raccoon, who in the time since Rush Adventure has become an expert on boatbuilding, as well as skilled in her special power of hydrokinesis (what I thought she was using in that final boss cutscene in SRA). She’s also calmed down a bit, and takes time to plan things through, though she still spouts out Australian slang like it’s going out of style. Oi! Marine is brought to Sonic’s world as a result of a transdimensional energy wave from the power which initially transforms Sonic into Riptide Sonic.“

“Sometime a couple years ago I came up with this idea for a story where Sonic had to save an underwater world and therefore acquire a water-based superform. Originally I was going through various ideas for a Storybook Series title and this one featured the sunken city of Atlantis, but then I realized that Atlantis wasn’t a part of any faerie tales and didn’t really have a story associated with it. So I decided to mold this story around the format of games like Sonic Unleashed, which had Sonic traveling around the world trying to right another of Eggman’s wrongs, while simultaneously battling an ancient monster awoken from millenia of rest. However, the key places in this global trek are all underwater, which normally poses a major problem for Sonic as he does not swim nor breathe water. Near the start of the story, though, this problem is solved for him in the form of a forced transformation into a marine fishlike being… or at least, a partial transformation. At the moment, he was lacking all of the “equipment” necessary to facilitate a full change, which allowed him to keep his hedgehog legs, as well as roughly his original body shape; however, not only is he able to swim, he is able to move super-fast through the water, just as if he were running on land (without the actual running motion, though), and not only can he breathe underwater, but he can also survive crushing depths and see clearly in the deep, dark areas where sunlight cannot penetrate. He also has sharp, pointed teeth like a shark, poisonous barbs like a lionfish, and the ability to shock foes like an electric eel. Unfortunately for Sonic, the marine superform comes as a curse as well as a blessing. He cannot stay out of the water in this form for very long, as he cannot breathe air. Also, his favorite food, chili dogs, become toxic to him; upon discovering a taste for sushi, he finds he can thrive on that instead. Finally, he eventually discovers that certain things which normally would give him a power boost in his normal form, end up causing terrible reactions if he interacts with them while in his fish-form. This superform is known as Riptide Sonic.“