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[2025 SONA]

holy shit my wife!!11!!!!

[(STE) THE CAST]

Blue..... BLUEEE........ BLUE SHOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Joke aside... I quite dig most of these, Knuckles got a real glow up, he might just be my favorite now.
I'm not the biggest fan of the execution of metal's design tho... The eyebrows just look weird on him, he'd be better off with a smoother look to his face, also sharper eyes, i think it'd be cool since his shoes are black he just straight up doesn't have pupils, or the pupils are white like in Sonic CD. Bonus points for keeping the detail where his foot has a cylinder that serves as a joint for it to move more naturally
... i'll rant a bit about the blue shoes.. I think they're a little contradictory here, like, Sonic got god damn black shoes, what if tails had black shoes, or the main shoe color being white and the secondary is black, like an inverse of the sonic shoes, since blue is meant to be like an inversion of how sonic has a cold color for his body and warm for his shoes. (despite the fact tails is supossed to have a warm color pallete and compliment sonic instead of being an inversion.. but i'm trying to get within the mindspace of blue shoes, i guess lmao)

If ya want to keep the blue tho, what i'd do is either make the white furr into a light tan, like the sonic 2 beta design and also tone down the blue or have the white be the main shoe color and a lighter blue as secondary.

Also, i would have made it so trevor has shoes that mimic sonic's, since the og tails doll had sonic shoes, but i mean, he kinda already misses the appeal of tails doll, so...
oh, and funny coincidence, i also have a sonic au with a character being renamed or given the secondary name of trevor lol

long story short, i generally like this, but i'm just a nitpicky bitch lmao

[The Tormented Ones UPDATE]

Miiiiiiiiiiggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhttttttttt give blue shoes tails a pass here, since he has a more dull furr color, i dig what ya did with him aside from that, i like knux, tho his hands seem a little out of place with the rest of the sprite.
I like how egg shaped eggy's head is, tho, he needs some highlights on the black part of his body, looks a little naked without 'em lol

Zenii-Zen responds:

For Tails the blue shoes they were a good one at the time expect it's extremely overused so i am working with something else, as for eggman yeah i do understand lol (tho the sprites will have different artstyle!)

[Sonic.EXE - FEAR UNBOUND]

Can we get some unique glove cuffs? I think it'd round out Hidox's design! Still, pretty unique, i dig it, i'd also like to see if he has missing back quills, that'd be neat, the render of him floating seems to imply he's missing quills on his back, but a confirmation would be cool

Zenii-Zen responds:

For sure! I'll try to see what i can do! As for the missing back quills is for a more humanish look! Which i will still need to work on-

[Sonic the Hedgehog BlitzDash]

Ah............. Blue.. shoes.. Tails....... I'll give you credit for this, giving him the beta fur tone makes it so his pallete still kinda works, in regular tails' design, the white furr balances out the warm pallete and here it's the blue, and as far as blues go, you picked a nice shade of blue.

I really like your Sonic n Knuckles tho, really good, coulda spiced up their super forms a little more, but it's cool, i like when knux is a little beefy, too beefy here, but it really works. I'm scared to se Vector lol, that man must look terrifyingly buff

[Talerai's Birthday Gifts]

Good luck putting all those wrinkles into a sprite!!!! LOL!!!
I actually do like the designs, it just has so many damn wrinkles, like, get some cream or something, damn!, dude looks wrinklier than my grandma. You'd probably save a lot of time if you didn't make your desings so wrinkly and used the wrinkles more for specific drawings, instead of being there by default, imagine animating something so wrinkly!
Also, i like the sonic sprites but the shoes seem to lack the upper part, at least in standing, idle and up looking sprites

[Random SEGASONIC AU concepts and doodles]

TMG!!!!!!!!!!!!! MAKE SUPER SONIC BUFF, AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!! (i really enjoy me some good buff super sonic, it's so cool)

For eggy... First off, he needs a bigger body, i get it's like your style, but i feel he doesn't look as y'know, egg with them long ass legs. I feel B's jacket look is a bit too complex, however, if you put B's scarf-cape, logo and the shines on the boots on A, it'd be a really solid design, or maybe mix both of the scarf-cape designs. Suprisingly, i think B's pallete works better if he were to be side by side with Sonic, i think it'd be a good contrast.

JustTheTMG responds:

cool, ill try smth else with him. it was just a concept anyways, it wasn't final lol

[Spirits unite!]

I like the re-addition of Espio's rounded shoulders, tho, i fell you missed by not just straight up giving him his classic design face with an eyelash or whatever, it's kinda what i did for my own modern espio redesign (https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/santinoainthere/modern-espio-redesign), You can try that out in some of your doodles, still, pretty nice stuff even if it's an old drawing.

ICam2k responds:

I mean, all I did is apply the classic aspects onto the modern one and I did give him the round eyes (the most notable trait for a chameleon btw) while combining the eyelashes, but I guess these weren't clear enough.
Ah well, guess I gotta have to take out the eyes out of his orbitals next time.
Joking aside, hmm... I think you could try to add in the ninja aspects a little bit, OR, you could lean in a lot more with the detective side on top of the ninja one. Overall though, I do like how he looks more defined. Also loving the gold arm bracers.

[Marvel Vs Capcom GRAAAAH]

This is rad!! It's so refreshing to see mvc spidey out of costume, you really nailed Peter's look with the hair back and thick eyebrow, chef's kiss! The use of color is so striking, i can totally see this as a real comic book crossover similar to the spidey and superman one where there's a lot of nice build up with them first meeting as their civilian personas before meeting themselves as heroes.

BonsaiHead responds:

YEAAAH!! Thank you!! I love Peter's comic look so it was important to me to depict it!! Glad you enjoyed it 🙏

[Classic Espio Fanart]

Ah, so close yet so far, you got his desing down pretty well, but you took out his cilinder type shoulders, they add just that lil more to the design, and can look really cool if handled well.