Hello everyone, how have you been? Hope your summer vacations have been well for the most of you. To start what’s pretty much the beginning of September, I’m going to showcase some portraits that I worked on since the tuesday of last week. They ended up being a bit complicated to colour, but I think they turned out well.
After this tho, Idk if I’m still gonna have time to do upload more portraits for these next months, since once this year ends, I’m going to complete my university studies. Tbh, I’m not really sure what’s in it for me during this last university triannual, or after it ends, but I’ll try to stay focused, and hope for the best.
Sonic The Hedgehog (2020) - Sonic
The live action version of one of gaming’s most iconic characters, the blue blur himself. I might have made some of the color distribution of Sonic (and some of the other characters) based on some of GoudaGrabber’s Sonic portraits, but the design itself is, obviously, the live action one. Anyways, this one might’ve been a bit unintentional, but after seeing the colors I’ve used for Sonic, I think they ended up being a bit similar to the ones he has in the Sonic movie 2’s pre-quill comic, fun stuff. The pose was based on one he has when Robotnik ends up attacking him for the first time in the 2nd movie. When inserting the sketch of his portrait, I ended up realizing that it was going to be a bit difficult doing his eyes, since I had to be careful to not make too big or else they wouldn’t fit in the eyes frames. In the end I manage to make Sonic’s portrait very well, although if I end up revisiting it I think I would make his eyes a bit smaller (but not too much obviously) and maybe patch up part of his torso, mainly his arms.
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (2022) - Tails
The sidekick young fox that’s also a technology prodigy, and the only one so far of the Sonic franchise so far to retain his VA from the games into the live action Sonic projects. His pose was based on one of his earliest scenes in the 2nd movie, and his portrait ended up being so simple in colors to the point that this time I didn’t end up doing an alt with less colors, so instead I made a recolored alt where he has the color scheme he had in the post-credits scene of the first movie. Still, If I were to redo his portrait, I think I would add more colors to his portrait, maybe an extra tone of white, and touch up his tails.
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (2022) - Knuckles
The red warrior echidna that “doesn’t chuckle”. His pose was based on one of his promotional artwork, minus his fists being raised. I wanted him to be the tallest out of all the Sonic characters, but if I end up redoing his portrait, maybe I would change the angle of his head a bit. His portrait might look simple at a glance, but he actually has quite an amount of colors, like having various tones of red, white and skin color, but I left two colors for his reduced colors alt in case I were to do like, his hat from his live action series.
Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (2024) - Shadow
One of Sonic’s most complex characters to exist once you get past his edgelord appearance and characterization, although maybe that’s why he’s most commonly known as Sonic’s main rival. I ended up doing reversed shading for his black fur so that he would look good, but since his portrait ended up being a bit big, he’ll need the mug extension patch to be used properly. If I redo his portrait in the future, maybe I’ll fix up some of his shading, alongside making his eyes a bit different so he doesn’t look a bit weird, or maybe just leave him with that and just give him an angry alt.
Since I ended up doing the portraits of two different ultimate life forms, here they are right next to each other:
I originally planned to release these portraits right after the trailer of the third sonic movie ended up releasing, but I ended up busy, so I had to release them this day. Still, they were fun to do, and maybe this helps to improve at making these type of portraits. And who knows, maybe I’ll end up doing the portraits of other characters that are actually human, like Eggman. That would be fun to do.