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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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As always, you draw a magnificent Sonic and Sally; I'll admit, they don't look too much older than usual, but it's awfully hard to care when that kiss comes out so perfectly. You seriously draw just the BEST SonSal kisses, I really love it. Their gentle embrace is also fantastic; I especially love the differing ways you pose their fingers, unique unto each character and perfectly fitting.
Even better, the new costumes are fantastic. All the details you fit in without it feeling at all over-busy or overworked, especially the textures on Sonic and Sally's crowns. I'm also loving the Acorn Crest belt-buckle Sonic has, and I think this may be my favorite look for a "Queen Sally" I've EVER seen: elegant, but powerful. A little bit taken from King Max, but with a lovely cape and trim to keep it distinct (I also adore how you can see the shape of Sal's tail poking out from beneath the cape <3).
It's just a brilliantly put-together snapshot of what these two might look like in the Future, simple but VERY striking. I love it.
For the details:
Sally's jacket-style's similarity to King Max was actually based on something I seem to remember you writing somewhere, but combined with my earlier idea this replaced. So I'm glad you noticed!
Sonic's jacket just kind of came together, and the crest was added last minute. I like the idea of the Mobius Strip as symbol of their country, but maybe only worn by the monarchy and official representatives? I keep going back and forth on whether I want it to be specifically the Acorn crest or not, although I'm leaning toward yes. Or maybe do something with variations of it, like the plain strip is the Acorn Crest and altered versions of it has other official government meaning.
Likewise, aging up Sonic characters is a tricky business. The usual signifiers of age-hair, height, muscle build, etc.-don't easily apply to Sonic-style designs, and so it becomes tricky to age the characters up believably without losing their identities (how does one do an elderly Sonic without it just being Uncle Chuck, for example?).
Something I wrote? Well I must admit, I'm quite flattered, and happy to know I provided some inspiration here. <3
And for all that planning and putting together's important, it's always so satisfying when a good piece of your art just falls into place like that. ^_^ Definitely glad to hear you're putting so much thought into things like the Crest even so, though. For my money, I think it works best as-is for the Acorn Family Crest; the idea to use alternate versions for other official meanings is also a good one worth exploring.
And yeah, NOTHING usual applies to Sonic-styles designs; aging, hugging/kissing, certain movements, they all take so much more effort to draw than humans, at least for me.
As for what you wrote...I can't seem to find it XD I know I may have just been misremembering where I read something about Sally wearing a jacket like that, but I looked at a few of the picture's you've draw where I thought you might have mentioned something and those weren't it. Well, I attribute it to you anyway haha.
Which is funny, because you'd think their simplified aesthetic would make things EASIER. But instead, it just asks the artist to completely relearn how they do pretty much everything; one imagines that's why artists more used to traditional humans, like Ron Lim, had such a bad time of it in the Archie Comics.
It could be something I said on one of the forums, to be fair; it definitely sounds like something I'd say, and I honestly do seem to recall saying SOMETHING like that at some point. XD; In any case, I remain humbled at the idea that I helped to inspire you, so
As for what you may have said, I'm thinking now that I got it from Blood Pact.
That'd make sense, honestly. X3 ^w^