#Sonic Character Design

[greenyvertekins]

Notes on Shadow's design elements.

I translated the bit next to the image of Shadow's nose and muzzle and it explicitly states that the tan/peachy parts on the Hedgehogs IS skin and is similar to human skin.

[aquillis-main]

Glad to see I'm not the only one who disliked the whole "human wig on anthrons" look. When I was a kid I actually thought that Mina and Sally and bunny were wearing wigs (looking back Sally was obvious waifu bait and they were clearly trying to go for the "Sexy southern belle" schtick with Bunnie ). Especially Mina since her hair clashed with her fur color

In Mina's case she may well have been wearing a wig given her status as an Idol Singer.

You talked about Mina there like, four times. XD I understand, anon. I was also not into Mina's design as a kid. Especially since they *almost* had the body right... it was the *wig* that they felt like slapping on last minute.

As for Sally and Bunnie, there was really no excuse for the Archie artists to give them the very sexy naked bodies and Lorel hair. By the time that design changed occurred, Amy, Rouge, Cream, Tikal, and Vanilla showcased a much more fantastic idea on how to make the female cast fit into Sonic properly without using the wigs. Something that I still abide by when making my own OCs. Whisper, in a character design standpoint, also has no excuse for her design in this day and age, considering that she draws fur out from the ether to even have the giant peekabang along with the ponytail to begin with.

Which is why I snatched Mina's wig and gave it to Yuki. XD

[catragemiau]

Commission for IceTurtle92 @ DeviantArt

[eatingsomegreeneggos]

Cav and Dak as Sonic characters 💗 Thanks @hypersonicjd for giving me the idea!

[glitterynerdwerewolf]

@hebby-arts

@blunderbots

I decided to turn this late Halloween gift into a Christmas present. Hope you enjoy it and merry Christmas!

[ninjapotatohead]

Probably the only fanon design of a canon character I can actually sorta get behind.

[siennaditbot]

Here's a dump of character design doodles I won't do anything with. I like the concepts but can't see myself doing anything with these so if any of them inspire you, go ahead and take and tune them! ^^

Two different magpie A.I.s! Magpies shine with blues and purples and greens and that reminded me of technology stuff, so I wanted to make a robot/AI character but it didn't really go anywhere.

Saw a picture of a potoo bird and wanted to make a sonic one. Idk if she's actually crazy or just looks unsettling, but she has either creepy or emo vibes. (Idk if it's right to call a character like clinically crazy to make them scary? Is that acceptable?)

Anyway, she makes super loud and high pitched noises so don't make her angry. Also her mouth opens super wide.

Last one, she's a scottish fold cat who hides her real ears with a headband. That gave me e-girl vibes so she's a gamer girl or smth I guess. She could have so many colors she'd look like a 2014 deviantart character.

Idk, I didn't get that attached to these, but it's a shame to leave them in my sketchbook since I do like them. Lumi the magpie and the spider and frog characters are free real estate as well btw! As a reminder:

If any of them inspire you, just snatch and make them yours with any changes you like! If someone does, I'd love to see them!

[perry-88]

Amazing!

The Japanese Chaotix manual is full of cool sketches of characters figuring out how the hell to play the game!

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[lemmeplaymom]

Possible sonic oc rpable character

[greenyvertekins]

Looking like Shadow is toeless just like Sonic. It’s cool to have confirmation since it was ambiguous given he’s part-alien.

Also, I always wondered how his red stripes terminate on his hands and feet. Like, do they end in a diamond shape like the stripe on his top quill?

[aquillis-main]

Someone in one of the discords I'm a part of told me that they didn't really click with Ovi's conjoined eyes. And while I do admit talking about my design process with characters even somewhat negatively is a bit of a sore spot for me, I decided to creatively force out my frustration by turning Ovi's conjoined eyes into a domino mask, which is how I actually envision the markings on the character. No matter how much I tried to say 'this is the style I should try out with Ovi for the next while', the conjoined eyes really sells expressions I want to convey better than the domino mask, especially since the Domino mask requires an extra set of lines for the eye holes. I may not go through with it in the future, but what does everyone else think?

[conceptmobius]

It's skin, y'all. Always has been. Same with Amy, Knuckles, Shadow, Rouge, and whoever else.

Fan artists love to ignore this fact, though. Same with giving them toes they don't have just because they're used to drawing other characters with toes and refuse to adjust.

Laziness and a severe lack of craps to give is a serious problem in this fandom, and the movies have only made things worse. 🤦🏿‍♂️

~Ryan

[catragemiau]

Commission for Animemaster1995 @ DeviantArt

[the-hydroxian-artblog]

[glitterynerdwerewolf]

Had an idea of crossing a mouse with a ribbon worm and got this. I'll try to get more stuff on here when I can

[artking-4]

I'm gonna make these two my ocs

Two character concept arts for the Archie Sonic the Hedgehog and Archie Sonic Universe comics. These two were going to appear soon before the Archie Comics got cancelled. 

Cortez and Null I think are their names.Concept arts made by Adam Bryce Thomas and Ian Flynn.

This makes me even sadder there’s no more of the archies. Just look at Cortez, he’s actually pretty cool.