#cyansonic

So yeah the sonic fixation is in full swing XD which means I of course want to draw these silly little guys. Currently I am slowing reading all of IDW (It's luckily available at my library), watching sonic x on and off and playing sonic adventure 1. I have just beat chaos 6 in sonic's story but woah, it's such a cool but overwhelming game for me! It's good, I'm just bad at video games XD and, haven't gone much into the other characters stories yet, I do also own adventure 2 on steam but I remembered that crashing on the first level a few years ago so I've put off testing it on my laptop until I at least finish sonic's story in adventure 1.

I've also gotten into other sonic media in the past but I've already rambled too much about all that and will now give context to my silly drawings :P

so the two oldest pages are mostly me trying to re-draw official art, adventure era stuff to be exact, as I think it looks pretty cool and seems like a good reference point for drawing these characters (unless you want to do classic style or a more niche "canon" style). Still feel like I'm far from getting a handle on their proportions lol. I still had fun trying to draw expressions thou (hence the sad sonic XD) and outfits for Rouge and Amy, do want to draw fun outfits on other characters too but felt like starting with Rouge and Amy since they're both fashionable characters.

speaking of Amy, I did also change up her design a bit, mostly just gave her a bit of a different hair do and back quills (kinda weird sega just got rid of them???) since I think it suits her and so fair enjoy drawing her this way ^u^.

A bit ago I decided to do some Babylon Rogues fanart in my travel sketchbook after watching LP's of sonic riders and zero gravity because I really like these birds XD. In fairness that wasn't my first exposure to them (I think that was sonic shorts when I was around 8-10 lol, I only vaguely remember one having Jet though and idk if I'll ever re-watch them) and I did find them interesting in the IDW comics (currently up to the 4th collection of IDW sonic comics, I know I'm pretty behind) but I think watching the cut scenes & gameplay of their debut game and sequel made really appreciate who these birds are and what their deal is so now I really like this trio!

I did draw them with bigger beaks since they seem to have bigger beaks in the riders 2D art and high quality cut scenes in the riders games and I personally prefer that. :3

I do plan on playing riders and zero gravity in future once I get copies (not free riders thou, even if I had an Xbox 360 I have no interest in the kinect) of course and I also plan on drawing them and many sonic characters in the future but sadly, that'll have to wait. This year I haven't been allowing physical injuries to heal fully and while it will be hard to take a break from art I know I'll need to for at least a few months :(. Hopefully the break will help me be able to draw more and less painfully going forward ^u^.

Also yes those are precure stamps :P I bought a bunch from a local anime merch store, I got them since I have been enjoying kimi to idol (I think I'm up to ep 34?), still a little disappointed I didn't get stamp 4, cure zukyoon is my fave this season but oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Didn't intend to draw the Babylon Rogue's next to them but that's sometimes how it goes with a travel sketchbook :P

At the beginning of the month I felt like doing some big the cat fanart because he's a very fun sonic character imo and I didn't really draw him much in my team rose page . I first did a thumbnail (and a quick froggy practice) because I got the idea at 1 or 2 am and than, did a sketch the next day and traced the sketch onto some mix media paper with coloured pencils! ...And than took forever to finishing the acrylic ink painting. -_-

But the painting was fun! And I think came out well! :-D Normally I paint in sections, with each own being shaded as I do the main colours but, this time, I put the shading in first with blue ink and than, added the colours on top. I also stuck with a limited colour palette of blue, purple, yellow and white ink, this is why froggy has dark green pattern (like he sometimes does) instead of orange (which I assume is the "true" pattern since it's the one he has in games). I also had fun adding the scrap booking elements to this page as always and, I think it matches the team rose page pretty well (which is next to this page :P).

So I uh may be a bit hyper fixated with sonic the hedgehog and after playing sonic heros for a little bit (sadly after the first zone the disk got stuck in a loading loop... still need to figure out the cause) I really wanted to draw some team rose fanart because these three are such a funny and cute trio to me.

I don't think I am at present very good at drawing sonic characters (especially big, hence him only getting a sketch :>) but with my current hyperfixation I hope to improve that and I guess find my own style with these goobers (I already want to experiment with how I draw Amy's hair more for example as, even child me, felt modern Amy's hair didn't look very hedgehog like).

Also yes I did draw Cream in Classic Amy's outfit XD thought it would be a fun concept since the "classic" sonic characters are sometimes* implied to be younger versions of the "modern" versions so I could see cream one day visiting Amy's house, finding her old outfit, begging to wear it and Amy giving in since the clothes would otherwise be left in a dark corner of her wardrobe forever :P

Pretty happy with the personalities, but thinking about it I might go back and make Shadow max serious and max quirky...

So glad I made running the topic, simple but really suited the situation, also yes Sonic calls Shadow "Shads", and I did give Shadow a quirk to start sentences with "Damn" XD

Some interesting conversations seem to happen with Amy...

It's too soon to look back on the year (TT O TT)