Today marks the 11th anniversary of SonicSong182 joining YouTube, signaling the beginning of a journey into what it is today. There was no way I wanted to miss out on celebrating a monumental moment of my favorite Sonic YouTube channel and I had to make something for the occasion.
For starters, I went with some lineless art when drawing Amy and Knuckles, and seeing that LINE! released a series of stickers based on the sketches from the Japanese manuals of the first three Sonic games, it provided some good influence. The Master Emerald and Piko Piko Hammer were also done without any lineart though working on the hammer was much more difficult than I anticipatedā¦ Of course, that was nothing compared to coming up with a background. That left me stumped because I wanted to try and reference the channel intro used at the start of Ask the Sonic Heroes while also incorporating each lineless piece I did and how long this channel has been around for, but it didn't work out the way I wanted. On top of that, nothing was coming up on an idea for an alternate background choiceā¦ until yesterday.
There are times where I would read random issues from the Archie Sonic comic, especially from the rebooted continuity, and fortunately, it gave me the inspiration I needed to continue and finish this up. You know there is always a recap page in the later issues that has a section containing the major characters, also known as the "Character Select" column? If that's what this image reminded you of, then you guessed correctly. I was determined to replicate how it typically looks, from redrawing the ring that's around at least one character to finding the closest matching fonts, and it left me with some satisfying end results.
From myself and every member of Team182, we would like to say, "Happy 11th anniversary, SonicSong182!"
