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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
speedofsoundsketches
Learning some new painting techniques.

Learning some new painting techniques. 

shadow the hedgehog sonic the hedgehog motorcycle fanart artists on tumblr whew this was a lot of fun I liked this technique because it felt like it was much more controlled than my usual painting style which is pretty much just flopping all over the place and hoping it works but it usually comes out messy this is neat and clean so yay! onlyart
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Hey Gang! For Patrons only, I have progress shots of the latest Shadow The Hedgehog piece available for your viewing pleasure/artistic curiosity. Any donation amount will grant access to more progress shots and sneak peeks for future artwork so...

Hey Gang!

For Patrons only, I have progress shots of the latest Shadow The Hedgehog piece available for your viewing pleasure/artistic curiosity.

Any donation amount will grant access to more progress shots and sneak peeks for future artwork so please consider becoming a patron or sharing for others to see!

Thank you all and I hope you have a lovely Thanksgiving!

shadow the hedgehog sonic the hedgehog patreon artists on tumblr fanart onlyart
speedofsoundsketches

That’s an interesting difference that I haven’t noticed was so significant!

Knuckles rarely is shown with his full mono-eye open but it has appeared like in the shot above. He tends to keep his brows down even when expressing non-aggressive emotions. Part of the design like you said.

I like pushing expressions so you see it open more often than not on my renditions. It’s really hard to make it look good down when expressions range past “annoyed”, “really annoyed”, “really REALLY annoyed”, and “JOO-TOOK-MAH-EMERAHD!!!”

knuckles the echidna sonic x sonic the hedgehog ramble character design thoughts
theredpaladin101 binart
binart

look at this behind the scenes shit… you can really see how much my own style bleeds through when i don’t look at references pffft

thankfully like 70 pages in i started to see the benefits of warm-ups/using lots of references. i tried to stay away from them in the beginning of BPJ, which in retrospect was pretty foolish! my goal is to LITERALLY EMULATE THE SHOW’S STYLE, so why rely on my own garbage memory when there are FOUR ENTIRE SEASONS WORTH OF REFERENCES?

here’s an example of earlier pages to show you what i mean

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like whatever. it’s fine. it’s lance. but you can clearly tell something’s off. I CAN CLEARLY TELL SOMETHING’S OFF.

compare it to this

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DOESN’T IT LOOK SO MUCH MORE LANCEY? it’s still not perfect (see: the nose especially) but it’s significantly better! 

there are a bunch of pages i’m going to rework down the road, and it’s so frustrating because SOME OF THE SHOTS WERE SO COOL!! but they would look even cooler… if they looked More Canon

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i even looked up a reference for a galra sentry but not LANCE. hubris… 

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^^ good lance and lil keith

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^^^^ REAL GOOD LANCE OH MAN

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^^^ & then Bargain Lance™ My Brain Created By Itself

sometimes your brain just needs a little bit of help remembering what shit looks like ok. REFERENCES ARE GREAT FOR THAT

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anyway i’ve got like 300 bpj psds and sais i’ll be taking a look through soon, so if i come across anything neat i’ll post them! 

theredpaladin101

lol this is how I feel about my old art vs my art now

References are a blessing

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