northoco

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so i just posted this on tiktok and unironically i had a REAL fucking discussion with someone trying to explain to me why it��s weird for me to have a crush on metal sonic

like they got rlly serious about how it was odd about how me, a minor, had a crush on another character IN MY AGE RANGE

the post wasn’t even weird?? the caption had nothing that could be considered odd, no sexualisation, nothing like that, but they still like called me weird 😭

the only thing was me saying ‘i love my boyfriend’ in reference to metal sonic.

i don’t think they are aware that i know he’s fictional. gang. 😭

love of my life

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love of my life

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in my hands i hold the ones i love

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doing this again cus first time i forgot to do it properly

LIMITED 10$/£ MOBIAN COMMISSIONS!!! 0/10 SLOTS

15$/£ for 2 characters, but ya! all would be digitalised the trad ones are just examples of my style. you can choose between lineless or lined, coloured or not. very sigma.

payment is through ko-fi, paypal or nitro

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nasty dawg

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY SONIC

june 23rd SO happy birthday to sonic, eggman, rouge and SHADOWWWWW

and also the president ig….

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☀️ : SUNNYS RULES AND INFO

hi, my name is sunny and here’s some stuff about me and my work, along with important things to note before you follow me or interact with me!!!

🌀 — about me

for starters, i am a minor, and am autistic. my special interest is sonic the hedgehog, and also my character yusei himawaru. i also really like omori, and my top kins are sunny/omori (you could probably also tie a bit of basil in) and silver the hedgehog. my favourite colour is yellow and i also draw a bunch if you couldn’t tell. my favourite things to draw being — obviously — sonic the hedgehog and yusei. i also take art commissions, write and role-play so if anyone’s ever interested feel free to either message me or send an ask.

🔆 — rules and dnis

any and all nsfw accounts found interacting with me or following me will be blocked on sight. this also includes anyone who’s racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, islamophobic, etc. this also goes for pro shippers, i want nothing to do with you.

i also want nothing to do with any accounts or people who sexualise any of the main sonic cast, this meaning sonic, knuckles, tails, amy, shadow, and any and all characters like that who are minors. i have a whole essay written explaining why i’m uncomfortable with the sexualisation of these characters, and why i firmly stand by them being minors.

do NOT use my work without some sort of credit or asking first. i’m fine with reposts and pfps and all that but only with my permission or clear crediting.

i am absolutely fine with asks and actually really love them, and am also absolutely fine with messages and what not. i love meeting new people and talking to them aswell!!! same goes for anyone wanting to draw my ocs or me and my friends sonic au, please go straight for it just tag me so i can see ❤️

remember to do your daily click 🇵🇸 https://arab.org

here are also some other places you can find me: https://linktr.ee/northoco

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human!sonic

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Hi if you dont mind even its temporarily posted to your page can you please consider sharing and extending your support to help me relocate to a safer place(Egypt). I need help immediately.Thank you from the bottom of my heart

ofcourse, i don’t have a lot of money but i’ll try tp spread the word however i can.

sorry if my response was late by the way and i hope you’re safe.

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we're mutuals now i decided :] /silly

WOAHH ILY MOOTIE /P

get shadow showing yusei the darkrider in return

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oh dark the darkness that dozes in the dusk

i had a lot of fun painting him

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I WAS LITERALLY ABOUT TO SAY THAT LMAOO

this left no crumbs

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cat encounter

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sonadow songs

a thing i’ve been thinking about recently is sonic songs that specifically resemble sonadow

now bare with me because i swear i have a point

the songs i think fit most are both adventure 2 songs, one of which is obvious and the other not at all as it’s a pretty underrated song!!

the obvious one is live and learn! the lyrics just scream sonic, and specifically him being the pov singing to shadow

sonic beats shadow around twice in the game, same for shadow beating sonic depending on if you play hero story or dark story — that second line to me is practically just sonic saying that. life is complicated, ���tangling you up inside’. one moment the guys on the floor and the next hes towering above him, it goes both ways. right after that we have:

knowing roughly about the pain he’s dealt with and all he’s paid for, even if undeserved. however by following that grief and negative expectation from others he’s practically pulling himself further down, ‘putting him right back where he came’

then it hits with the live and learn which is obviously just the. you know. final kick. however the bridge sort of just beats you when you’re down because johnny what the fuck is this

this is just painful (in a sweet way). to me it’s sonic giving shadow that final hope. the entire rest of the song is pretty aggressive, kind of just yelling to live and learn and get over things but the bridge is such a gentle reminder of why he should do it in the first place. ‘hold on to what if’ aka the what if that shadow will move on from the ark and learn to live. that place sonic is referring to the line before is peace and home.

and then live and learn and shadow fucking dies lmao

but i mentioned two songs!! and that’s because the other song is shadows perspective which is somehow more miserable

this song is none other than supporting me for the biolizard, one of my probably top five sonic songs if not number one. i love it so much it’s so perfect

this song is pretty over looked. you hear it in the biolizard fight but you don’t really listen to the vocals. hell when i first played i didn’t even hear the vocals because i was too busy trying not to fall down the streams and slam my laptop in

the song, unlike live and learn, starts out gentle and soft, and only after the guitar picks up does the first line drop:

after all, it’s what shadow assumes is the final fight. it’s what he thinks is the last thing he needs to do to destroy the threat, hence the desperation.

the verse eventually comes, which could not start harder somehow

now, important. this song could be viewed as a song about maria and his final words to her before he moves on (which you’ll understand when i bring up the next lyrics) and that’s a perfectly good interpretation of it, and probably the intended one.

HOWEVER, it can still be interpreted as a song to sonic, and there will be more on that soon.

anyway, these lyrics are just so good and well sung. the line “i believe in my future, farewell to the shadow” is him accepting the idea of moving on once defeating the biolizard, and believing in what’s next to come via abandoning his past with the destruction of the ark.

‘it was my place to live, but now i need your hand’ the sibling/maria interpretation would be the fact maria died in what shadow thought was his place, and now he needs her support in?? i can’t exactly figure out the last line and it’s tie to maria— WHICH IS WHERE THE JOINT SONADOW INTERPRETATION COMES IN! it was his place to live, it’s his realisation and moving on of his grudges and self + outward hatred. he needs sonics help, and the thing that makes this more fucking painful is the fact it’s a FORESHADOWING OF THE SUPER TRANSFORMATION WHERE THEY REACH THEIR HANDS OUT TO THE SKY TOGETHER.

SHADOW TAKES HIS HAND METAPHORICALLY AT THE FIRST BIOLIZARD FIGHT AND LITERALLY AT THE SUPER TRANSFORMATION.

‘lead me out with your light’ and the line below it to me is what slowly underlines the tie to sonic. he spoke to amy shortly before this fight, and then went straight to sonic, being led out by his guidance to help save the world, the light that he was trying to destroy.

and then the fucking HOLY SHIT THIS PART

this is a straight follow up from the last line before. everything currently IS like an illusion to him, so much is changing and he can barely comprehend its reality.

‘i’ll be losing you before long’ WHICH PLAYS RIGHT AFTER THE LIVE AND LEARN RIFF???? it’s a strong foreshadowing of his death, and the person he’ll be losing is sonic!!! before long!!! it can also be mixed with maria. he’s losing both him and maria by destroying his home and what’s remnant of its present.

the last lines here are what really made me believe this was more towards sonic lmao. ‘i know you are supporting me’ as sonic is currently doing his part in the fight whilst shadow is facing the biolizard. he knows he’s supporting his decision to join his side, and to realise what the right path is.

anyway that’s about it uh shadria and other weirdos dni also go listen to supporting me

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Free Resources for Digital Artists

I try to save resources when I come across them, just in case myself (or someone I know) ends up needing them, and this is one of those collections.

I have not tried all of these, so please let me know if there are any problems.

💻 Programs:

Digital Art Specific:

Krita: Open source free program

Light Brush: a web-based drawing program

Photoshop Alternative:

PhotoPea: online (no download) alternative to photoshop

GIMP: photoshop alternative program

Other:

Blender: pro-level 3D creation software

OpenToonz: animation

Inkscape: Free open-sourced program for Vector format files

Vectr: Create and export vector graphics as SVG or PNG files.

Polotno Studio: Free Canva alternative

💃References

👤 Humans:

Kibbitzer: Draws references poses and images

toshi: Draws references poses and images

Character Posers:

PoseMy.Art: a free character poser

Referenceangle.com: You can move a head in any angle

JustSketchMe: Character poser (Free limited version)

Poseit (app only)

Easy Pose (app only)

Other:

Wildlife Reference Photos

Floor Plan Creator: design a floor plan, then view it in 3D

x6ud.github.io: Skull poser

Character Design References: it has an overwhelming huge list of references for drawing

📚 Misc:

🎨 Palettes:

CoMiGo’s Palette Generator

Palentton

Colors.co

Colormind

ColourLovers

🎮 Video Games and Pixel Art:

Universal LPC Spritesheet Generator (free)

RPG Character Builder (Free)

RPG Map Editor 2

LDtk: Level Designer Toolkit

PixilArt: Create and share pixel art

LibreSprite: a free open-sourced program for animating pixel sprites

💬 Fonts:

Calligraphr: Turns your handwriting into a useable font

FreeTypography: Free fonts for commercial use

Creative Fabrica: Free fonts for commercial use (sign-up required. Click “Menu,” then “Freebies.”)

Google Fonts

💡 Learning:

Line-Of-Action: This one could go in references, but I didn't put it there, because this website is specifically for practicing art

Quick Poses: Practice drawing poses

The Etherington Brothers: A free encyclopedia of drawing tutorials

📃 Other:

TinyWow : Collection of several free online tools

Pattern.Monster: Create patterns to be used for clothing or website background tiles

Designspiration: lets you search for graphic design inspiration and see what your competitors are doing

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I do receive nay sayers on YouTube now and again at how Sonic is NOT an introvert!!! I will die on this hill that he is haha.

Oh look, in Sonic Forces, in the final scene, you have all the characters celebrating together... but one character is missing... Where's Sonic?

He's standing outside on his own, watching the sun disappear in the clouds. An introvert doesn't mean you're a shy wallflower, it means you keep your feelings to yourself, rarely speak up in group settings and enjoy your company alone, which Sonic does more often than not.

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metal sonic and mech appreciation before i fucking pass out gods i’m so tired it’s 2am and i need to wake up early

i’ve been thinking a bunch about how much i love sonic mechs recently and how wildly unappreciated they are?? mainly gemerl (and emerl rest in peace) omega and metal sonic. i LOVE LOVEEE metal and gemerl especially, omega too dw he’s amazing.

however i realise with metal there’s this huge sort of like gap in media he shows up in? his best character arcs are always in comics, never in anything else. the last good metal sonic arc we had game wise was probably rivals and heroes which was in the 2000s…. anyway, there’s so much potential metal sonic has??? one of the things i will NEVER fucking get over is the fact he has so much room for improvement— to get better, to have a redemption arc, and he’s been offered it before and clearly considers it but the problem is he was fucking PROGRAMMED NOT TO ACCEPT.

one of my fav hcs is metal sonic was literally sonic from an alternative universe turned into a mech and sent to eggman from his future self. it’s so DISTURBING BUT FUCKKK IT SERVES SUCH GOOD CONTENT.

im a metal sonic apologist for LIFE ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING I GENUINELY BELIEVE HES LIKE FUCKING INSANE AND DOESNT KNOW ANYTHING BUT WHAT HE WAS THREADED TO BELIEVE. metal sonic GENUINELY believes he’s the real sonic, he GENUINELY believes what he’s doing is for a better world, and he’s under the constant influence of eggman. i will never EVER forget the line from heroes:

“see me as i am, no longer afraid of anything.”

bc. no longer? no longer?? NO LONGER??? THAT HIT ME LIKE A TRUCK WHEN FIRST HEARD ISTFG.

like?? like???? it implied he was afraid, and i genuinely believe he was afraid of eggman for a bit before pushing past this fear to lock him up in heroes and try to fight back against the world and who he fought was a literal copy of him. then, canonically, he was reprogrammed by eggman to obey. his fucking voice box taken away from him, his right to any free will GONE and i GEN believe most of eggmans mechs have souls. like how does this man’s machines almost always end up becoming conscious

i just love metal, and i want to see more of him and maybe a redemption arc.

speaking of if anyone has a fanfic of metal sonic having a redemption arc and learning to act even slightly like a normal teenager with the rest of the silly teenage cast pls gods recommend it to me i need serotonin

anyway that’s it for sunny autistic rant of the day i needed an outlet have a good day/night everyone !!!