Oh yes, and a Sonic I made using Desmos, for a "Graph a Character" school project. I made him using nearly 100 graphing equations. According to my teacher, no one had really done Sonic before. That made me want to try my best.

In doing this, I understood Sonic's design in a way that I hadn't before.

"CORNER OF LIFE"

A visual test for "The Wonderful World of Sonic the Hedgehog". A project I've yet to bring to you all in a realized manner.

I assure you though, the best is yet to come.

Her ears look off. If I revisit this again, that will be the first thing that I fix.

I wouldn't call myself a Sonic fan but I really like your work. Your character designs are really good and your technique is great. Also, props for the graphing calculator Sonic, that must have taken forever!

Thank you, thank you. It's been so long that I don't remember exactly how long it took for me to complete it. Probably about 2 weeks? If I recall correctly. That was the deadline we were given on the project. I didn't complete all of it in school, a good chunk of it was done in home-hospital due to health problems. So forgive me for my memory being hazy.

Also I see your join-date is very fresh--welcome to Newgrounds! Glad to have you here.

Thank you, thank you. It's been so long that I don't remember exactly how long it took for me to complete it. Probably about 2 weeks? If I recall correctly. That was the deadline we were given on the project. I didn't complete all of it in school, a good chunk of it was done in home-hospital due to health problems. So forgive me for my memory being hazy.

Two weeks makes sense. Kudos for bringing it to completion in spite of health issues.

Also I see your join-date is very fresh--welcome to Newgrounds! Glad to have you here.

D'aww, thank you very much!

At 8/28/23 02:46 PM, dupreedraws wrote:

I REALLY like this illustration! For me, Ganondorf always steals the show in most Zelda related art, and this one is no exception. His head sillhouette flows really well!

One feedback I have is to push the gesture of the pose more. This is such a cool pose, but I think it could be a bit more impactful if the curves were a bit more exaggerated. Would you mind if I drew on top of it to show what I mean?

Would you mind if I drew on top of it to show what I mean?

Sure, not at all! Go right ahead. I’m eager to see what you do.

Here you go, I think my main feedback is that the original's silhouette felt just a bit cramped, which was the main thing I edited on my version.

Sorry for getting to this so late. School's been starting back up and I've been pretty busy.

Anyway, yes, I love this! You see, some of my biggest gripes with this artwork came from Ganondorf, and his silhouette in particular was one of them. I remember him being more difficult to draw than Link, going through many iterations before I arrived at my conclusion. In that sense I am still proud of how he turned out, but the final result just isn't entirely ideal.

One of my challenges was that I wanted a particular frame of composition that built Focus, and that the characters weren't so far away that it would lose detail. That is, for the final drawing at least. However, for Wallpaper Edits and such where the frame is greatly extended, this issue is nonexistent. Obviously I could've worked around it without losing much, but that was my thought process at the time.

If anything my want for Focus lead to the final drawing being way too cramped. It shows most in Ganondorf's pose, but you can see it in the overall positioning of the other characters as well. I tend to prioritize the element of Focus in my art, as part of my own personal philosophy. But I think that lead to many fears and avoidances which negatively impacted the final drawing.

But let me not get carried away. All that aside, thank you so much for this demonstration! It's greatly appreciated. I feel like I've learned alot from this.

Here's a redesign I made of one of my characters--Heidi--about a week ago.

I wanted to ask you all a question, if you feel like answering.

What era do you think she is from? If you had to put a year on it, or a year range, what would it be?

There are no wrong answers here, technically speaking.

I'm just trying to see where I should go from here in terms of getting across my idea better.

Here's a phone case that I designed based on Tails' airplane from Sonic Adventure 2, the Cyclone.

This time next month, it will have been a year since I created it. There were some printing errors on the case which made the final product not exactly flawless, but I'm still happy with how it turned out. I remember this being a very fun and interesting process which, while it presented some challenges, taught me a lot of techniques I still use to this day.

In fact, during the process, I remember saying "This has been the funnest headache that I've had in a while", lol.

Maybe one day I'll attempt to tackle another project like this again and have another fun headache.

I have since updated Heidi's design, based on the feedback that I got and my own personal inferences.

H.E.I.D.I. W.I.P.

Pen & Ink grid enlargement project for Art Class. I referenced the source image of the original poster using a 6x4 grid.

Screenshot from comic storyboarding.

If the work-in-progress progresses, you should see this by the time it's December.

Someone left a comment on this series of artworks and I just want to share them again, since I'm still fond of them to this day. These are from the summer of 2021. Over two years ago now.

Jun 10, 2021

Jun 14, 2021

Jun 15, 2021

Jun 14, 2021

This one came quite some time after. I think in-between these I was unsatisfied with how I drew the shoes, so I did them differently in this one. I still prefer this shape.

For the spikes, I tried to be more accurate to Super Sonic's original Sonic 2 sprites. Looking back, I misinterpreted some of the shapes there. I should've referenced the concept art and Dragon Ball, if I hadn't already.

This second edit came from how I noticed that the original sprites for Super Sonic in Sonic 2 had thicker shoulders than his regular sprites. I think Sonic 2 is the only game to have done this since.

Here's some old sketches of Mickey that I found while trying to find the buff Super Sonic, lol

Jun 17, 2021

Horrifically terrific.

@Thetageist Your reactions are funny LOL

Happy Halloween!

more like jungle boob (lol…)

and Heidi, too

don’t mind her, she’s just happy to be here

This is linocut Sonic. He's not done yet. In my mind, I consider this to be the spiritual successor to Desmos Sonic.

If you look closely, you can see many places where I messed up. I asked the teacher if I could retry it, but apparently we only get one block of wood to work with. Oh well.

I also drew these two old dudes. One from today (on whiteboard) and one from the other day, as a warmup to my Jungle Book sketches. I started with the eye, then the nose, then gradually filled in the rest of the details of the face, with no exact image in mind.

I wasn't really proud of the sketch when I first drew it, namely because his thumb was too small and his mouth looked strange. When I first began drawing this--starting with the eye--I initially had wanted to fill the entire page with eyeballs. But the face just manifests every time I begin.

I need to work on my understanding of the ears the most.

Oh right, and in order to create the Linocut Sonic, I had to first create this.

I sent it to my teacher to print. I drew over the original Sonic box art and made it a high resolution scalable vector asset using Inkscape's "Trace Bitmap" function.

No images like this existed on Google. (At least, no good ones that matched what I had in mind.) So if I wanted to make Sonic for the project, I had to create this image.

I could have just pivoted to a different kind of image after not finding what I wanted. But because of the fact that it was possible, and it was something that I wanted to do, then to me there was no reason not to do it.

Oh god yeah, I’ve tried linocut before and it was really hard to get smooth lines. But this is really cool!

Many people have been telling me they've done something like this before. Seems like a common experience, and I'm glad to have shared it. Thank you.

Someone asked me to draw Imperfect Cell.

You may be able to tell that the lines on his leg looks weird LOL. It's because I edited it in digital. I tried coloring this with watercolor markers and messed it all up in the process, but luckily I still had the picture from before i did that.

Downloaded a bunch of brushes for Krita and experimented with them for a while. Was quite fun.

Here are some of the things that I drew while messing around.