SonAmy Week Day 7: Comfort*

 

      Hi! I made it through this week that I took as a challenge so here is today's doodle:

I couldn't think of anything for non-cliché date so I thought I'd do the comfort prompt instead and thinking about what I could do for it, I thought of how Sonic and Amy even met: Amy got kidnapped by a robot version of Sonic and our hero Sonic had to go and save her. Not speaking from experience but kidnapping is traumatic so the idea of Amy breaking down in tears after the events of Sonic CD made sense to me. And if she's crying, then she needs some comforting, right? So she reaches out to Sonic for a hug because 1. he's her savior and 2. he was the only other person around at the moment. Sonic is not at all used to this (he's also still a kid and new to this whole saving the day thing) and he's not one for mushy feelings or physical touch (CANON) but he can't just stand there and let this little girl cry so he tries... and offers her something that he knows would make him feel better. This is the day Amy even learns what a chili dog is.

This has been pretty fun to do but I'm also glad that I can take a break and draw for myself after this. So until next doodle, toodles.

SonAmy Week Day 6: Dancing*

 

      Hi, I managed to put together a piece for today. It's not the original day 6 theme red thread of fate but thankfully there are bonus themes so I used one of them, hance the asterisk in the title. Here you go:

Hey, it's Sonic Boom SonAmy! I personally hadn't seen any depictions of these alternate versions of them so I thought "hey, I'll draw them". This came after I decided in my sketching process that Amy would be the one doing the dipping lol. It's actually that show's fault I even like the ship cuz before I was like nah, he doesn't even like her. But the show depicts them much differently and heck, after you watch the show, you can see the very subtle SonAmy even in the mainline games from the early 2000s. At least with the Sonic Adventure games you can. Anyway, I think the SonAmy dynamic in Sonic Boom is the best so far (haven't read the IDW comics) even though I played Frontiers. Why do I say that? Cuz at least it isn't followed up with Sonic and Knuckles having more sexual tension between them than with their suggested girlfriends 😭 Plus if you play Final Horizon, some of Knuckles' dialogue towards Sonic sounds like they're freaking boyfriends... in front of Amy. You might notice I made some modifications to Boom!Sonic's design and that is because I think the one used kinda sucks. Like why so much sports tape messily covering his gloves and shoes? Why a brown bandana? I seriously thought before watching the show that it was post apocalyptic because of his stupid brown bandana. Don't ask me why, it just struck me that way. Amy's design there is peak tho so I left it unchanged. Shadow's is also peak too, too bad he's a dumb bad guy with a chip on his shoulder against Sonic in particular. He's funny that way but still. Anyway, toodles till I post another doodle.

SonAmy Week Day 5: Fantasy

 

      Hi. I finished the piece before midnight but I should go to bed so here it is and I'll come back to edit (I gotta come back anyway, I have two more days to go... and no ideas for those days. Oops.)

SonAmy Week Day 4: Emerald Coast

 

      Hey, I managed to finish up this piece for today with some time to spare in the day for starting tomorrow's prompt since I work tomorrow, ew. So here goes:

"And that's where Tails crash landed. An orca chased me on my over to him." I've been playing through Sonic Adventure this summer so it's still fresh in my mind (I may have also accidentally played this level twice as Sonic). I actually have to beat both Sonic and Amy's final bosses and finish Knuckles' story. I already beat Tails', although that last level was a struggle because of the flying being a bit finnicky. I have not started playing through Big and Gamma but I'll get to them. Oh, so about Sonic's outfit here... or lack thereof... yeah, he was in my mind going to be wearing a shirt so he wasn't totally naked but then I sketched him and didn't feel like adding the shirt and just never added it later on so take it or leave it. I also thought of sandals but again, didn't draw them. It's kinda hard for me to spit out digital drawings on the daily, especially when I have a job, so forgive me for cutting corners, I'm tired. I am actually using this time that I'm posting to take a break from drawing cuz I've been doing it nearly all day long... and I have another prompt that I should start tonight cuz I have work tomorrow so that means I can't draw for a good 8 or 9 hours. Hope to be posting again tomorrow, toodles.

SonAmy Week Day 3: Idols

 

      Hi, I'm gonna drop it and run but not without the backstory for this piece... cuz it has one. 

Rising popstar Amy Rose collaborated with well known rockstar Son!c on a track for her experimental pop rock album and were set to debut it at an awards show. Unfortunately for Son!c, Amy made some alterations to the choreography once they were on stage. The rockstar got so flustered that he flubbed his lyrics... it became a meme and the most downloaded version of the song for weeks afterwards. 

The idea was fun but drawing Amy was hard on me. Let's see how I handle the next two days. Toodles.

SonAmy Week Day 2: 90s

 

      So no one told you life was gonna be this way... 👏 👏👏👏👏 Ok, so I managed to finish the prompt for day two a little while ago (helps that I don't normally work on Tuesdays hehe) so here it is:

I thought this one was pretty fun, or at least the concept was fun enough. I mean, these are characters that were created in the 90s, they should be allowed some nostalgia for the period. There was some pretty good stuff in the 90s. Not gonna list it now but yeah, they keep getting glossed over in favor of the 80s, early 2000s, and the 70s a bit since that fashion is coming back... and you know, Gen X loves the 80s cuz they peaked in high school and could buy pizza for a dollar (I might be exaggerating a bit). Anyway, I knew I wanted to draw them in 90s fashion but throw in some character elements from that time period so Amy's color scheme is based on her classic outfit but I didn't want to draw her in the skirt lol. Besides, putting her in overalls makes her look more like the tomboy she was originally described to be so it fits. Sonic's marketing being all "this guy's cooler than Mario! He's hip!" definitely inspired me and he tends to be associated with skateboards so I had to make him a skater boy - 'scuse me, boi. He's wearing the light speed shoes from Sonic Adventure because that game came out in '98 and I happen to be playing through that game for the first time ever too. His shirt has the pilot emblem he used to pop out of at the beginning of his games. The background is based off of some Japanese Sonic CD box art I saw on google and that is Amy's first video game appearance so yes, had to do it. Well, I explained this piece enough and I have stuff to do, including starting up tomorrow's prompt. Hope I can make that one in time cuz I do work tomorrow and I work in an office so I can't be bringing my drawing setup with me. Anyway, toodles and hope to be back tomorrow with another piece.

SonAmy Week Day 1: Manga

 

      Hi! So I forgot to post here for a few months lol. I was hardly drawing digitally because this old tablet of mine was giving me some trouble where if I unplugged it, my laptop would restart... well, I broke the cheap usb cable I was using for it and got a new one last week and I have not had that issue so I guess it was the cable 😂. It's still an old tablet though and I have such a hard time doing lineart cuz it's a regular drawing tablet with no screen so I could still use an upgrade but it doesn't have to be now thankfully. Anyway, I found out about this SonAmy week a couple months ago and thought I'd try it out so here I am posting my first piece for it: 

I went for them reading manga because I couldn't figure out what manga/anime I'd draw them as or if I should do a manga style comic so I came up with a third option. They're reading Sailor Moon and Dragonball because last summer I had caught up to One Piece (anime) and I was between these two for next anime cuz I was in the mood for some more 90s nostalgia... I ended up choosing Sailor Moon (watched season one alongside Fruits Basket) and became obsessed with a franchise that has taken notes from Dragonball😅. So yeah, they're enjoying a nice date just reading while sitting in what looks like a macaroon because of course I did my cheap attempt at a background. I cannot be bothered to draw a full scenery (and I wanted to draw manga/comics like this...) so they're not even on a full sofa and to fill the white space and draw your eyes to the center where they're sitting, semi-circular swoops of color. Yeah, that works. Anyway, I've gotta finish up prompt two and figure out what I'll draw for day three. Oh, and I have a couple pieces I finished between April and now but I'll post those later. Anyway, toodles. Hope to see you tomorrow :)

Trauma Bonding + Fearless Shadow + KNUCKLES!!!

 

      Oh boy, I haven't been keeping up with posting here. Time to dump some stuff and run: 

Well this thing didn't post in the order I wanted. First thing is a meme I came up with and did early March, the Shadow one I finished tonight, and then the Knuckles ones are from late March. I'd talk more but I don't feel like it right now so when I do, I'll come back and add an edit. Till next time I post doodles, toodles.

Knock, Knock, It's Knuckles

 

      So glad the title was easy to come up with 😂 I found out last night that Groundhog Day was also when Sonic 3 and Knuckles was released in '94, which makes the game and Knuckles 30 years old. I knew the anniversary was coming up but I didn't know exactly when so I drew this up today:

I had the idea for this meme a while ago and actually thought of it yesterday at work so made sense to me to draw it today. Was able to whip this up in a couple of hours which was surprising. Guess I'm back in the drawing groove. Don't know how much more drawing I'll be doing in the near future tho cuz I'm thinking of getting a new laptop since mine has gotten more finicky than normal lately. It hasn't restarted today while I was drawing thankfully *squints suspiciously* but the program I use to draw will act up on me and I have to close it and reopen it if I want to keep working on something so idk if it's the program itself is buggy or it's a touch incompatible with my five and a half year old windows 10 laptop (I've had it five and a half years but idk how old it is exactly. I wasn't there in the factory when they manufactured it). My laptop also barely has any storage on it but that's on me really. But yeah, I think it's time for an upgrade. But I've gotta pay off credit cards before I can do that so that I use one of them to buy a new one since January was not a very good month for me financially. But I got my car painted finally, after having it for nearly six years 😃 Oh, let me post the alternate version with no text too before I finish this post and leave.

Alright, and now I make my exit. Till next doodle, toodles.

Hedgehog Day

 

Hi, I'm just posting now and will edit later to explain but take these drawings please.

Edit: Kay, I came up with the first idea months ago when my sister and I started getting obsessed with Sonic and found out about the Hedgehog Day marketing ploy where they basically said "screw Groundhog Day, buy Sonic 3 and Knuckles, kids." Funny thing is, in Ireland, they observe hedgehogs to see if winter is over because they don't have groundhogs... and I have an Irish OC so I came up with this idea. The last panel was gonna be very different originally but I thought it was gonna be weird that I just cut to them being in front of an arcade or video game store so I changed it while sketching it. The second picture with my favorite fictional hedgehogs was an idea I came up with just a few weeks ago. Thought it would be fun to draw them all free falling in the sky and it was fun drawing these guys all together. This is the best I've drawn Sonic, Shadow, and Amy, and my first time drawing Silver. Unfortunately, with my wanting to finish this in time to post while it was still February 1st (Irish Hedgehog Day/First Day of Spring), I didn't realize Groundhog Day was Knuckles' 30th anniversary 😩 I had to find out while on Instagram after playing some Sonic Frontiers last night. So I'm going to post the drawing I did today in a separate post. See you there.

In Loving Memory of a Wonderful Companion

 

        Hello. I am posting here for the first time ever in 2023. In fact, last post I made was in February of last year. Yeah. I still love drawing and doodling, I just have less time for it now and with how I've been feeling these past few months, I haven't been up for completing any sort of doodles. I have finally completed one though, but that's because of its current significance to me. As of today, it has been one calendar month since my dog of over 11 years, Cindy, passed. She was a rather healthy dog until her 12th birthday in February. Then she gave us a health scare and I had my mom take her to the emergency vet where they originally said she had some sort of blood cancer. We gave her an herbal medicine prescribed by the vet and she improved well enough that in a regular vet visit set up in April, they said her blood test results were perfect. She gave us another health scare in late June/early July (I forget which month, this year has been a blur with the past few months being the most chaotic and the worst my mental health has been in a long time) and again, she seemed to recover until October when she suddenly went blind. After that, it was a rapid decline and my depression that had started during the summer worsened. She kept showing sparks of life and a will to live so for a good while I was against putting her down... until her last week of life where I realized it was for the best. She beat me to the punch though, taking her last breath while I was not home. My grandma's dog was in the room with her so she wasn't alone when she died. I'm crying right now as I type this but I had to make art of her so I had started just a few days after she died... and didn't touch it again until yesterday after work and finished it today so here she is:

I made two versions because I realized while playing with opacity to see the picture I was using as reference (well, more like I traced it but it's my picture of my dog, I did nothing wrong here officer) that I liked the look of it. She was an absolute sweetheart towards people, loved other dogs too to the point of crying at any dog she saw out and about shortly after her original companion Daisy died. She also loved killing lizards and rats, among other things but that's not important right now. I was hoping she would make it to 15 or at least her next birthday but as of now she is the longest lived dog I've had and she died of old age/natural causes, which is much better than the two dogs I had die before her. I am glad I had her in my life and hope to have a similar bond with my newer dog. Fun fact, Cindy was a Labrador-German Shorthaired Pointer mix, Daisy was a Chihuahua-Dachshund mix, and my latest dog Sophie is a Labrador mix too but with a shepherd breed. At first we thought German Shepherd but she seems to be Belgian Malinois instead, which is fine but they're more energetic and uh, I haven't been so energetic lately. But we should be fine. She's a very nice girl and quite responsive to me. Would be nice if my grandma's dog got along with her the way she got along with Cindy but she's a little brat coward and Sophie is bigger than Cindy was with the bad tendency to bark at dogs she wants to play with... and she has a loud bark. So yeah. I'm also posting here first because apparently I no longer have the instagram app on my laptop? Oh, and last year I switched from Android to iPhone so I'm not sure how to go about getting the picture on my phone in order to post. Well anyway, hoping the next year will work out a little better for me. Till next doodle, toodles.

Hey, you miss me?

 

      HELLO!!! I am sorry I disappeared like that but I am back with some art, which I had not been working on for months so here, catch: 

Yes, it is the same character with three different backgrounds. This is what happens when I stop drawing for over four months, I turn indecisive on how to finish stuff up. Why haven't I been drawing/posting drawings? Good question. My best guess is that this neverending pandemic *squints at antivaxxers and mask protesters* that is robbing me of whatever youth and sanity I have left has helped in making sure I don't feel motivated to draw cuz why bother when you and whatever you produce usually gets ignored? A person can only take so much before they snap or something and my depression hasn't improved, I just am in depressed moods for not as long as I used to be (if that makes any sense). So yeah, when you start to question if your own existence is even worth it, your creative juices suffer (or at least mine do). I really should get a therapist but I also don't have health insurance at all because I am a broke American that is too old to mooch off of my parents' insurance anymore. It's absolutely wonderful here. 

So anyway, this was a draft from months ago and I decided to keep working on it again last month alongside another piece that I am also recording a speedpaint for and clearly I chose to finish this one cuz there was less pressure. Hope to finish some more art and would it be too much to ask for something positive to happen in my life? That would be damn nice. Till next doodle, toodles.

Tropical Vibes + some extra goodies

      Hello. I am alive and I hope you are too or else you can't enjoy these presents that I am offering to make up for the lack on content these past few months:

Voila! I hadn't worked on any digital drawings in a long time and it felt so good to work on this one and actually finish too. Hadn't drawn this character in a long time (*whispers* I'm so sorry, Desi) so I felt like I should especially since this was a character I debuted last year during Hispanic heritage month so yeah, let's celebrate this character existing in my head for a whole year. They are Hispanic by way of Cuba and Colombia so that's what the hat flowers represent because they are supposed to be the national flowers for those countries. The fedora and neckerchief lean more towards Cuban fashion but I mean, I had to google Colombian cuisine because my family is Cuban and not given to doing much exploration outside of their own culture so the only Colombian food I knew of was arepas. Anyway, I had fun drawing this and I love how it looks. I have a couple of bonus paper doodles that were done earlier but my phone doesn't seem to agree with my laptop? Or is it the other way around? So it's difficult to back up pictures from my phone without the cloud and I don't feel like using the cloud, I don't trust that someone can't hack it, so I'll stick to my plug-in method thank you. 

 Um, they got posted backwards but last week, it was a Sunday and I felt inspired to draw that cute happy little baby because I hadn't drawn him in a while and I miss babies. I haven't been able to interact with one since the pandemic started but no one wants to help me make one either. Then the second picture is because I started watching the OG Pokémon anime (dub) in August and I love Team Rocket so much, they and Pikachu carry the show for me so I wanted to draw an OC dressed as Jessie from Team Rocket but I... just drew Jessie. I gotta draw James, he's my favorite. In case you're wondering, I am over 140 episodes in because turns out I had only ever seen part of the first season before my mom decided that the concept of Pocket Monsters was demonic and not fit for me to watch. She let me watch Digimon and I even watched cartoons and an anime starring witches so I think if my mom really wanted me to not watch demonic stuff, she wouldn't have let me watch cartoon witches either. Don't know when I'll doodle and post again so until then, toodles.

Fall Chernobyl (an OC of mine, not the destroyed Ukrainian town)

      Hello, I am the idiot that intended to post this in April finally and instead I pulled this stupid move of leaving it in my drafts and forgetting about it again. 

Do I really need to explain a speedpaint? Maybe, but I don't feel like it... except that I do regret that bright pumpkin color I used for the background. Other than that, might not have really changed anything else. I have noticed that my style has changed some since these chibis so hopefully I'll make some new chibis to show you what I mean. Till next doodle (or post... whatever) toodles.

P.S. I am fully vaccinated now and I hope that we can get more people around the world vaccinated soon so that this disease can stop being a problem.

Belated Earth Day Isoke

      Hello! I drew something for Earth Day/a contest so here you go:

I drew one of my OCs here for this occasion. For anybody that doesn't recognize her or happen to have stumbled across this post with no context, this is specifically my OC Isoke. A long, long time ago, I created this character but her name was Isis back then. Fast forward a few years ago when this character along with her cohorts had already been conscientiously shelved because I simply wasn't coming up with ideas for them and the terrorist group ISIS becomes prominent. I said "guess I have to rename a character." And then I did. And honestly, Isoke is a much better name for her because as much as Isis as a name is of African origin and a pretty sounding name, the history of whitewashing ancient Egyptian civilization has made the name Isis sound more like a "white girl name" when it shouldn't be. Not hating on anybody that has chosen the name Isis for their child/themselves but I gave Isoke a Nigerian background instead of a "being descended from Egyptian royalty" backstory and wanted to distance her from extremists. And I saw Isoke in a baby name book and liked it so there. Her cohorts have been getting renamed too, I'm just missing one and then I have to move on to the last name stage. 

Ok, now about the drawing. I wanted a softer look to this piece so it is experimental in that I barely added lineart and some features were painted in with the watercolor brush in MediBang. There was going to be a background with a cherry tree and other assorted flora but I didn't like how it was turning out and deleted it. I like how simple this piece looks, 10/10 would do again. I'm nearly done editing the speedpaint for this to add to my YouTube but this time, I changed what program I used to screen record (went back to the one I used to use because it does not awkwardly condense videos longer than five minutes) and this program allows me to "pause" recording and I have to edit that out so I'm watching all the videos beforehand to know where I have to edit. It's gonna be a long speedpaint unfortunately because I take longer on larger drawings and I don't thumbnail ahead of time like the trained professionals do so any time you watch one of my speeedpaints (if you do), you're also watching me make decisions on the fly. 

Well, I have another speedpaint project I would like to do sitting on the back burner, I am still working [very slowly] on that comic of mine, and I have in my drafts two speedpaints that were already posted to my YouTube so yeah. I might post one of those tomorrow but until next doodle, toodles.

Comic Preview!!!

 

      Hello! It is time for me to make my announcement that I kept teasing for months now... I've been working on a webtoon and here is a little preview:

I accidentally came up with this OC last summer and next thing I knew, I was writing out a story and in November I started with the actually making a comic. I still have a lot of work ahead of me partly because my depression has not been making it easy for me (when does it?) and for that reason I ask you be patient if you are interested and also that absolutely nobody go and steal this and post it somewhere as their work. I've been considering creating a patreon and posting there as I go finishing portions until I am ready to post to webtoon but idk, I'm hesitant to. I should probably start a twitter too but I don't feel like getting into more social media, I already find it tedious to check my own personal Instagram account so yeah. And with that, I bid you adieu until the next time I return. 

Fall Hercule/Puissant speedpaint

      Hello. I am very quickly sharing that I have finally gotten around to editing and uploading a "new" video to my Youtube channel so here it is:

Till next doodle, toodles! (Enjoy your weekend if I didn't double post today)

A Belated International Women's Day and Anniversary

 

      Hello. Yes, I realize that I skipped February posting but February was not a good month emotionally for me. Yesterday was international women's day and the anniversary of me starting this blog and yet I forgot to post here💀so let's get to it.

My women OCs! Some of them you may recognize if you've been checking out my blog since... uh... 2014? and you might recognize that this doesn't accurately represent just how many female OCs I have because I have been spending over a decade creating quite a few OCs. And I'm still creating OCs. I think I accidentally projected my mental state on the first doodle by making her look so vulnerable. 

It has been nearly a whole year since I experienced lockdown and two years since I've had an income (I know I quit my job but not like I wasn't looking for a replacement) so it's been affecting me negatively and I desperately need a change. I feel like my whole life needs to be rewritten because the current one hasn't been working for me. Don't know where this was going but I obviously need to talk with somebody and my parents are not very sympathetic with my feelings so I don't even bother telling them anymore.

Well, I might make an announcement soon (I've been saying something about an announcement for a long time) so let's see when I return with more doodles. Till then, toodles.

Ch-ch-ch-CHANGES (I can't even name a Spotify playlist, don't expect any cool titles here)

 

      Hello! No point in mentioning anything about it being a new year when January is nearly done but yes, I am still alive and I thought I'd throw some crumbs at you as proof.

I had been meaning to draw this character with their redesign and so here he is. This is one of my many OCs, Haru Morgan. He used to have dirty blond hair but as time has passed and I have changed stuff around, I decided it was best to give him brown hair (it’s simpler to color) and even changed how I draw his bangs. It was nice working on this cuz I’ve been working on something since November that I thought I would have done by now but depression has me drawing so slooooowwly so just take this. And this:

"I killed Chin the Conqueror." I read The Rise of Kyoshi this week and loved it, so here's some unfinished fanart. I've loved Kyoshi since hearing about her in atla and then when she showed up. She's just *awesome* and I haven't heard anybody hating on her, which is good cuz 2020 brought up some necessary hate on characters that don't deserve it. So, happy weekend, don't go doing anything that would cause a giant woman to show up at your door with a full face of makeup to beat you up (that includes NOT WEARING YOUR MASK! there's still a pandemic) and till next doodle (or if I feel comfortable making any announcements... I feel like that'll happen in February), toodles!

How have people managed to to achieve this in 2020? I can't even do it when there isn't a pandemic

      Hey, hey, hey! It be the end of the year. Sorry I dropped off the face of the earth, I've been working on something that's still not finished. I'm not announcing what it is until next year because I don't know if I can commit to it just yet but I can tell you it's bigger than the usual doodle. Speaking of doodles, I made one to commemorate this crazy year:

Ah yes, the dreaded life comparison that social media brings with the ability to share things over the internet with people you do and don't know. As soon as the pandemic started, I cozied up to staying in my bed while watching wonderful animated shows mostly from Japan (2010 me would be so jealous of how much anime I have gotten away with seeing this year and the fact that I could bingewatch whole seasons) and postponed job searching to not put me or my family at risk. Yet, other people are not putting their lives on pause so I end up in an end-of-the-year depression as usual because all I did this year was survive in a pandemic, become a BTS fan, and cut my hair shorter than my shoulder for the first time in my life. It's grown since June but after the first few weeks, I've been sporting a fluffy, messy bunnytail on some days. Oh, and I created a new set of OCs that I think are my comfort characters for 2020 and have done quite a bit of writing for my OCs. This year has been a wild ride and I just want to get on with life again and maybe actually get somewhere so that I don't feel like a dunce at 30 😭

2020, sayonara.