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Watching this AU had a huge impact on me. Besides liking the design, it's a picture of Sonic maintaining his pride, even though he tries to act like his normal self, but the impact of a horrible experience and the fact that everyone can see his scars... everyone except him.

Additional drawing :D

in progress...

I'm curious to know that classic Sonic doesn't speak. And while I know it's probably just marketing... this came to me :D

We know that Sonic is a very powerful being, even within his own world. I like to think that he was literally born to fulfill the role of protector of his world. So, being born with so much energy inside him, he tends to act a little... strange as a child.

Sonic, the heroic hero who is brave, free, and pure of heart. A boy who has incredible power, even within his own world. A natural being who is capable of harnessing Chaos power and running as fast as sound.

Born to be a hero.

I have the headcanon that he is the being the prophecies mention, the savior and protector his world sent.

I have the idea that when he was little, he couldn't control this energy well; the amount of power he had confused him, and he simply existed, without personality, friendships, or even emotions. I like to think that meeting little Tails and taking care of him was a defining moment in his becoming the Sonic we know.

Sonic, the hero.

The blue, brave and big-hearted boy, always ready to go on adventures and protect people with a smile.

P.S., the smallest sketch was the one I liked... I forgot to enlarge it. :D

I attach evidence:

🫠🫠🫠🫠😝

A lil' hedgehog with a bow

(I saw a cute art of him and tried to do it but had to change it cuz I couldn't do it exactly as the artists,)

but other than that, love this guy 🦔

Sonic Adventure 2

i’ve actually internet dived so far to find a gameplay of the sega genesis AKIRA game prototype. The programming was so advanced that it became the reason why it never became a game / would have glitches on dialogue (random characters or unreadable things would appear)

but overall for it being the 80s/90s when it came out it was like mad impressive. Some animations were smooth but game controls were too janky (from what i’ve seen) could have honestly been a good game if it had a better gaming console as support for the program

the soundtrack is in yt too. SURPRISINGLY the only song i did not really like was Kaneda’s theme but pixelated. It just feels weird to me (duh, because it turned the complex orchestra into a 4-bit music piece). It was so weird though, i like EVERYTHING ELSE but kaneda’s theme (the fact i love kaneda so much too, i even shocked myself with it. But i still love the soundtrack.)

a little something i want to add is that when you’re picking levels. you’re either kaneda or tetsuo (from what i’ve seen in gameplay) and i love the little “tetsuo!” it does. The “kaneda!” was obviously the english dub, which threw me off (i mostly watched akira in spanish dub or original Japanese dub)

now thinking about it, the game made me have a feeling that i preferred some sort of thing over than kaneda. Not cool, because he’s my favorite character of all time (the brainrot was so bad, i like to think we’re related or ‘he just like me!’ character. Not enough to say i’m a fiction kin, but like we share many similarities) but to all that aside, not even the game can make me stop loving kaneda as a character. Yes he might be somewhat an ass but okay he’s silly and he’s kaneda. What i DID love about the game was his smooth ass animation. In the sewers and in his bike. Literally the SEGA intro turned blue when kaneda rolled by and shot it with the laser beam he had to fight tetsuo. You might not see it, but it’s looping in my brain now.

man, this ain’t just a favorite anime anymore huh.

leo rants out

It is extremely important for people to understand how their chosen media works. There are tons and tons and TONS of people who slave away for what are seemingly simple projects. Dozens of animators for just one pilot, tons of people with headaches all in the writers' room trying to figure out how to tackle continuity issues, a plethora of geniuses debugging for hours, several sleep deprived musicians determined to find the exact wrong pitch that would make the scene come together.

If you want to try and wrap your head around this, go listen to the Gravity Falls behind the scenes podcast. Even if you're not a huge fan of the show, watch one episode, and then Alex Hirsch's explanations for the scenes in it. I listened to it because I was curious about the writing, and I fell down a rabbit hole much deeper than I thought. I could make a bingo card of all the times he talked about someone else bringing it home and making his dreams come true.

"I was worried about this scene, but producer ____ figured it out."

"If it weren't for the music ____ composed this sequence would've dragged"

"if it weren't for my friend ___ telling me to rewrite that scene, this episode wouldn't exist"

"if it weren't for these brilliant storyboards by ___"

"if it weren't for ____'s costume designs"

"if it weren't for my friend being masochistically willing to stay up all night with me, this show would suck"

I have a huge amount of respect for every piece of inspired media that was worked on by actual humans, because there's more work put in than you could possibly imagine. It's unfair to blame any success or failure in a franchise on one person. Everyone deserves credit for the good and bad they did for something, and with something with as much heart and soul as Sonic, there's clearly much more good being done.

Help me out here: Why is there so much Ian Flynn hate going around lately? I thought everyone loved that he was contributing to the games. Now suddenly they aren't. I guess that's par for the course for this series but I don't get it. He isn't perfect but I like what he's done. Am I a weirdo?

Ian Flynn has always had a lot of fans, but any creator putting their work out there is going to have detractors as well. That's just the nature of being an artist. To some extent, it's no big deal. He's not a perfect writer. Nobody is! I consider myself a fan of his work, but I've criticized plenty of individual writing decisions from him on here.

But Ian doesn't just have critics. He has his own obsessive hatedom. And the specific nature of Ian's hatedom is... interesting.

A decade ago, Ian was only the guy writing for Archie Sonic, meaning any debates over his work were quarantined within that tiny niche of the larger Sonic fandom. Only people who kept up with the comics month to month had any real reason to have an opinion on the guy, which means we're talking about merely thousands of fans as opposed to millions.

Within that group, he had some haters. You had the people who were mad about story changes made during his run, particularly things like ancillary characters getting killed off (although over the years we've learned that most of those were editorial mandates from Mike Pellerito). You had the people mad that Ian didn't push their favorite ship, with feuding SonAmy and Sonally fans claiming that he was CLEARLY biased towards one or the other. You had the people who just really, really liked one of the previous writers way more - usually Penders, as hard as that may be to believe today. That sort of thing. Pretty normal comic fandom type stuff. Again, it comes with the territory.

Unfortunately, many of those haters only got worse over time, morphing into reactionaries who constantly try to incite Comicsgate type culture war bullshit.

There are people still mad at Ian for making Sally bi and pairing her with Nicole instead of Sonic in the later Archie comics. There have been elaborate MS Paint red string conspiracy boards explaining how people like Ian and Jon Gray have apparently been destroying the franchise from the inside for years by Making Sonic Woke. (Jon gets dragged into this because people are still mad about him drawing The Slap 20 years later. Yes, really!!) There was an unhinged change.org petition trying to get Ian fired, specifically from people who were mad that the Freedom Fighters aren't in the IDW comics. There was even a very sad little fan campaign from these people trying to get Sega to move the Sonic comic license away from IDW and over to Udon, because they thought Udon would bring Sally and Bunnie back and also make them sexy again. There's a lot of this.

(Unfortunately, Penders has also exacerbated this by gossiping about Ian on Twitter and giving these fans ammo, but that's a whole 'nother discussion.)

The thing is, for years, people who only played the games or watched the cartoons had no reason to pay attention to any of this. Now, though, Ian isn't just writing for some weird spinoff comics that only the super nerds read. Now he's writing comics that are canon to the games, and ALSO some of the games themselves, and ALSO consulting on other tie-in media like Sonic Prime, and ALSO writing the official Sonic encyclopedia, and ALSO serving as part of the new Sonic Lore Team at Sega. And on top of all this, he's got an increasingly popular podcast where he fields questions about his work on all of these things, which serves as one of the fandom's main windows into creative decisions being made behind the scenes.

As a fan of Ian's work, it's been really cool to see him rise in prominence. But the dark side of this is that his obsessive haters from the Archie days now have WAY more of a potential audience of their own. Now, every Sonic fan has to have an opinion on Ian. What this frequently means is that you'll have the Comicsgate types taking things Ian writes or says out of context, attempting to get more of the general fandom to yell at the guy.

Unfortunately, there are a wide variety of Sonic fans who take the bait:

You've got hardcore fans who disliked basically any recent piece of Sonic media and are looking for someone to blame.

You've got the people who are concerned about the sanctity of Sonic's canon, who shoot the messenger any time Ian mentions a new retcon from Sonic Team on the podcast - or any time he even mentions the THOUGHT of changing anything about the canon, as we saw recently with the Sol Dimension nonsense.

You've got people who romanticize some sort of mythical artistic vision that Sega of Japan supposedly has (or had) for the franchise. To many of these fans, American contributors like Ian just don't "get" the heart of the series and are trying to turn Sonic into something different. (This "heart of the series" tends to be some mix of Japanese instruction manual lore, the cinematics from Sonic CD, the OVA, and/or the games written by Shiro Maekawa, depending on what Sonic media the fan in question grew up with.)

You've got fans of specific characters or ships who pin the blame for how their faves are depicted entirely on Ian - most vocally fans of Shadow, even though the root problem is that Sonic Team hasn't known what to do with Shadow since 2006. At best this stops at regular old criticism, but at its worst this devolves into claims that Ian has an agenda against certain characters.

You've got fans annoyed by a perceived over-emphasis on comic-original characters in the IDW comics, ignoring the obvious facts that these characters exist because the game cast is so tightly controlled by Sega, and also, you know, that people just like the IDW characters and want more stories about them.

You've got a LOT of discourse over IDW's Sonic being a hero who tries to give his enemies second chances, as if half of Sonic's closest friends aren't already former villains and rivals. Honestly this is very transparently just reheated Steven Universe discourse lmao

You'll also see people who just think they could do Ian's job better. They can't believe that THIS GUY is the American fan working on all these Sonic projects, when clearly THEY understand the characters and lore and themes SO much better than this charlatan.

All it takes is for someone in one of these categories to be unhappy about some recent piece of Sonic media, and for them to come across an out of context quote or comic panel that rubs them the wrong way, and suddenly the leftist Zoomer Sonic fans will join the latest dogpile on Ian alongside the reactionary Comicsgate types who are mad at him for Making Sonic Woke.

In general, when fandoms get upset, they tend to want a scapegoat. A person or two to point a finger at and go "THAT's who ruined the thing I love!" This tends to be based less on reality and more on which contributors are the most visible online. You'll sometimes see teenage and adult fans of children's cartoons single out a storyboarder who's particularly vocal on Twitter, blame them for every story decision they don't like, and harass them off the platform out of a sense of retribution for their favorite ship or whatever. Failing that, fans might choose to blame every nitpick, down to individual lines of dialogue and frames of animation, on a showrunner, just because that's the name they associate with the show. And unfortunately, when it comes to Sonic, Ian is now arguably the most prolific and outspoken contributor on the English speaking internet, and therefore a common scapegoat.

Some of the things I've seen Ian blamed for are truly wild. A lot of people have claimed for YEARS that he's just lying about the existence of creative guidelines and restrictions from Sega - or, as fans call them, The Mandates - even though they're just an inherent aspect of working on a licensed property. Others claim that The Mandates are real, but somehow Ian's fault. A vocal minority of fans have convinced themselves that Ian is the sole reason the Freedom Fighters don't exist in the IDW comics, even though Ian says he's been pushing to bring them back since day one.

Sometimes you'll see people say he ruined shit he didn't even work on. A few weeks ago on Twitter I saw someone claim that Ian had written a rejected script for Sonic Forces in which Tails died. I could not find a source for this for the life of me. As far as I can tell, the rumor seems to have been born from an alleged leaked script for Forces with margin notes from Aaron Webber that criticized the way Tails was written, and also an old tweet where Aaron joked that Tails would die in an upcoming episode of Sonic Mania Adventures. These merged into "Aaron Webber criticized a draft of the Forces script in which Tails died." How'd Ian get dragged into this? Who fucking knows!

It's all just a big game of telephone. All it takes is some asshole to make something up about Ian on Twitter or YouTube or a DeviantArt journal or some forum, and at least a couple people will believe it, and then it gets repeated as fact. Again, this used to be contained by the niche nature of the Archie Sonic fandom, but now there are WAY more people who are receptive to this shit.

It's just sad to me that Ian tries to be so open and honest about his work, to try to explain the rationale for certain things, to keep fans looped in on the direction the franchise is headed, and this just gives the Flynnspiracy types more quotes to take out of context and try to paint him as the devil. If it sounds like I'm being overly defensive and dismissing his critics, man... some of the things I've seen people say directly to him are just unbelievable. People will send paragraphs-long angry screeds in to his podcast that completely tear him apart, and he has to sit there and be like "Well, that's your opinion, and you're entitled to it." People literally pay for special guest interview episodes where they just rapid fire complaints about his writing at him directly to his face. I don't know how he does it. I would snap.

All of this over Sonic the fucking Hedgehog of all things.

I don't know how to wrap this up. Engaging with fandoms online is very tiring, which is why I tend not to do it. Things like this are too common. I guess, just... remember that making art collaboratively is a complicated thing. The people involved are generally trying their best given the circumstances, but they're only human. They make mistakes. But please treat them like humans. Criticism and dogpiling are not the same thing.

HE HAS A GUN LET'S GOOOOO

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Well, the truth is I didn't like how my first roster turned out, so I modified it.

¡¡This is Project T Zone!!

the world is theirs 💙 🩵

Some art I forgot about 🏃 I did this back in February and have evolved since then; I don't draw Sonic characters like this anymore lol (they have fully been oc-ified in my sketchbook... it may be cringe but I am free)

I wanted to sketch a bunch of characters that I hadn't really drawn before, along with my favorites. Espio, Maria, Eclipse, Chip, Sage, and the Chao were all first-time drawings!

1st part of my takes on different Crappypa- I mean Creepypastas

Might make more of these once a century lmfao

✨Sonic X Shadow Generations is out!

So I drew Shadow with his Doom Wings in whitespace! :D

I made new lock screens and I wish to share them with all the lovely internet people.

Me when I saw Black Doom’s squid eye in the new SonicXShadow Generations trailer:

mighty and ray easter egg i found in city escape in sonic x shadow generations!!

the Fabric of time and space in the Mario and sonic universes

I find it very funny just how different the two Universes are in terms of how each deal with the concept of time travel and alternate universes. Because in the Mario universes the fabric of time and space tend to be respect....while in the sonic universe they Crip walk over the damn thing

My favorite drawing, it's a bit old now.

Purge

Shadow y The Rhythm Rogues

Mortimer and Sonic.EXE

Bonus drawing:

Tails Doll and Mortimer

Mortimer and Tails together

(they are friends)

Oh, and if you noticed something that looked a little weird in the drawing, that's too bad because when I went to trace around the drawing, I ended up doing it wrong and tried to fix it.

How about a Sonic AU where they're Rivals characters?

I'm gonna preface this by saying yes I know this anon I see you

But in all seriousness, this is a fun idea and we talked about multiple characters and how they would play. But so far I have only drawn Sonic

I tried to mimic the style the best I could with my art style and abilities. I wanted him to look like how he would be if he were actually redesigned for the game, Obviously his Ult gives him his golden superform but I didn't draw that

Now I do fear he may be a bit OP but I wanted him to be a high movement character for obvious reasons and I don't want his sprint to have a stamina bar but instead you'd be able to sprint the whole time BUT it is sonic games fast. I think that jerk around the map and the spindash charge more than make up for how powerful he seems. Someone playing sonic would have to balance his speed with the timing of his attacks.

He would be a squishy character, good for breaking past the frontline, taking down healers and dps, and sprinting back to safety

Alternate skins I'd choose to be available at launch would be Fleetway (for the alternate colorway they all have) and Prime, changing out his gloves and giving him that glitch effect he has in show as well as making him a more vibrant blue

Should I continue and draw the other characters I have figured out?

Had the idea to set up my sonic au like an ask blog. I know that probably sounds like the work would be all up to you guys for just short text answered but it would be more like the white Diamond au blog where it’s kinda story driven and has art and stuff and I’d keep info going with smurfs and my friends if no one had any asks in or knew what to ask to get the info I wanna give

That also means I might save some people’s asks for if I wanted to use them strategically to show the world and characters

I still want to do my big plot comic but this could be dipping my toes in the au waters on tumblr without commuting and introducing everyone to the au in Vite sized pieces

But idk it’s a half baked idea rn

What do you think?

Yes I’m still doing art along with AC. That IS what this account is for.

So I redesigned the egg boy, why? Because I wanted to draw classic Eggman shape but four. His costume boring for my style. I like detailed designs 🤷‍♀️.

So I combined some of my fav details of various eggmen. He’s still the usual 6ft 300 IQ mad scientist we all love.

Also hes straight up ginger. Idk if he is canonically but his mustache does look like a rusty brown in game so he might be. But mine definitely is.

Do you like my shading UWU (why did I just uwu wtf is wrong with me)