Old and new drawings
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hexenprinzessinYo-ho-ho, folks!
I've been reading the Sonic Archie comics again from the beginning. I looove them, I wish it didn't cost a fortune to collect all the issues... It's also been tricky to find scans online of everything including the Sonicgrams. The Archives are nice and all, but I want the full experience, ya know? The original issues I do have are some of my most prized possessions tbh <3
Bunnie is my favorite character, I love her so much!
Generally the female characters from the comics and SatAM are so cool! Julie-su, Sally, Mina, ... their character designs are great, they've always inspired me a lot~ Btw, I'll share some more new art when I finish drawing something, or some sketches/WIPs, we shall see c:
I do have something old to show you though, Sonic drawings from when I was like... 13, I guess?
I never did anything more than this with them, been thinking about coloring/redrawing them digitally... or doing just the lineart digitally and coloring them traditionally? I could definitely practice drawing backgrounds using these! Either way, gotta finally honor child me's hard work XD
I had a bit (or a lot) of a coloring phobia back then. Actually only recently have I been able to slowly work my way through that. Slow is just the word: I wanted to practice coloring with my COPIC markers that I've had for years and years but which have always kind of intimidated me. For no reason, as I know now, they are my friends!! I started experimenting with a few different colors on the cardboard back of a notepad, blending shades of green and then blue. It looked like I could turn it into hair, so I added a quick sketch of a face etc. Never would I have thought coloring it would make it look better and better and better instead of ruining it! Sure, the sketch was literally there as just a rough basis for my main purpose of coloring, but still, having this kind of positive experience means so much!
(WIP, I hope to post a better photo of the finished piece at some point!)
Now I've been working at this drawing, little by little, one small step at a time. After all, I'm in my warming up stage to coloring and to thoroughly getting back into drawing, so I gotta give it time :) The blendability of COPICs is honestly amazing, it's so, so, so much fun to work with them! <3 You don't even need to have 100+ colors ready to create something good (though you could probably save a lot of time blending them while they're freshly applied ^^;). These markers are really expensive, so I'll keep buying a few of the ones I really feel I have use for instead of some huge set (O__o).
The noteback on whose back I'm drawing this is one I've been using for my notes to learn Math from scratch! It's so like my school days, drawing in and on the notepads XD I wish I'd had a resource like that website back then, but oh well... Math is another subject from my childhood that I want to reclaim now and learn properly this time
P.S.: Last time I talked about what draws autistic people to Sonic, I somehow left out Knuckles, how could I! Dude is known to be impulsive, quick to anger, and super-gullible. Too relatable, man, I've always loved Knuckles (˶´ ᗜ `˶ ;;
Been playing Triple Trouble as him and I like how they shifted the game to his POV. What a lovely fan creation this one is... This time I want to actually collect the Chaos Emeralds, but I've once again been having a tough time with that. You have to play as Sonic and Tails to collect them, the game itself is suddenly such a breeze now that the pressure is gone XD I want to summon Super Saiyan Sonic and pink Knucklessss
I've been reading the Sonic Archie comics again from the beginning. I looove them, I wish it didn't cost a fortune to collect all the issues... It's also been tricky to find scans online of everything including the Sonicgrams. The Archives are nice and all, but I want the full experience, ya know? The original issues I do have are some of my most prized possessions tbh <3
Bunnie is my favorite character, I love her so much!
Generally the female characters from the comics and SatAM are so cool! Julie-su, Sally, Mina, ... their character designs are great, they've always inspired me a lot~ Btw, I'll share some more new art when I finish drawing something, or some sketches/WIPs, we shall see c:I do have something old to show you though, Sonic drawings from when I was like... 13, I guess?
I never did anything more than this with them, been thinking about coloring/redrawing them digitally... or doing just the lineart digitally and coloring them traditionally? I could definitely practice drawing backgrounds using these! Either way, gotta finally honor child me's hard work XD
I had a bit (or a lot) of a coloring phobia back then. Actually only recently have I been able to slowly work my way through that. Slow is just the word: I wanted to practice coloring with my COPIC markers that I've had for years and years but which have always kind of intimidated me. For no reason, as I know now, they are my friends!! I started experimenting with a few different colors on the cardboard back of a notepad, blending shades of green and then blue. It looked like I could turn it into hair, so I added a quick sketch of a face etc. Never would I have thought coloring it would make it look better and better and better instead of ruining it! Sure, the sketch was literally there as just a rough basis for my main purpose of coloring, but still, having this kind of positive experience means so much!
(WIP, I hope to post a better photo of the finished piece at some point!)
Now I've been working at this drawing, little by little, one small step at a time. After all, I'm in my warming up stage to coloring and to thoroughly getting back into drawing, so I gotta give it time :) The blendability of COPICs is honestly amazing, it's so, so, so much fun to work with them! <3 You don't even need to have 100+ colors ready to create something good (though you could probably save a lot of time blending them while they're freshly applied ^^;). These markers are really expensive, so I'll keep buying a few of the ones I really feel I have use for instead of some huge set (O__o).
The noteback on whose back I'm drawing this is one I've been using for my notes to learn Math from scratch! It's so like my school days, drawing in and on the notepads XD I wish I'd had a resource like that website back then, but oh well... Math is another subject from my childhood that I want to reclaim now and learn properly this time
P.S.: Last time I talked about what draws autistic people to Sonic, I somehow left out Knuckles, how could I! Dude is known to be impulsive, quick to anger, and super-gullible. Too relatable, man, I've always loved Knuckles (˶´ ᗜ `˶ ;;
Been playing Triple Trouble as him and I like how they shifted the game to his POV. What a lovely fan creation this one is... This time I want to actually collect the Chaos Emeralds, but I've once again been having a tough time with that. You have to play as Sonic and Tails to collect them, the game itself is suddenly such a breeze now that the pressure is gone XD I want to summon Super Saiyan Sonic and pink Knucklessss
