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@IDWPublishing
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@cellarchateaux
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hoping it's not needed but just in case, again
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#3143
dear american followers
reminder that as of january 1 2023, barely a month from now, arthur conan doyle's sherlock holmes stories will in their entirety be public domain for you
take advantage of this
felt like doodling some tmnt characters for fun
basic redesigns by drawing them from memory
and SD proportions because why not it's a comfort drawing who cares
@Danny8bit
spanish government-funded local low budget animated movie that somehow got picked by WB for international distribution
it's generic as all hell and most presence I've seen it have is some people getting too attached to the girl mummy
Here's the posing sheet for Surge the Tenrec! These were roughly sketched so some design details might be wrong such as the number of eyelashes etc. Point was just to help convey her body language and fight style. I'll post more concept art as a thread in the replies here
you can even make a story where you go back to the roots of holmes' creation and make him a doctor
and maybe instead of cocaine he's addicted to a modern drug like vicodin
and maybe he's in america
and to justify the vicodin he grouches around in a cane
and he's a diagnostician
COMM sonic the hedgehog: scrapnik island
got commissioned to finish one of the other ideas I had for the issue 4 B cover
take it as a celebratory "good job great miniseries" poster, and go read this miniseries if you haven't yet!
Got the good to go so here we go, Surge the Tenrec's basic model sheet for
@IDWPublishing
's Sonic comics! I'll post the poses sheet and the concept art tomorrow with some commentary and so on, for now posting this and heading to bed
also out recently was
@IDWPublishing
's Sonic the Hedgehog
#64
, where I drew the backup story.
I've been seeing people be very happy about it, and I'm glad! It was a more challenging story than usual for me lol
right here's the logoless for Sonic The Hedgehog: Amy's 30th Anniversary, Cover B
aiming for shoujo visual cues, based a lot of this in a couple specific escaflowne promo arts
here's my cover for
@IDWPublishing
's Sonic the Hedgehog
#61
don't have much commentary here, struggled for a good while with this one oddly enough until I randomly threw an image of the master system's palette as an overlay and it gave the image energy
not really involved in Scrapnik Island beyond an unrevealed cover, but I drew this as fanart when seeing
@Loopyyylupe
's take on Mecha Sonic. Said take's been shown on covers so I think it's no spoiler to post this fanart.
underlining again this is just fanart. fanart fanart fana
been over a week since the issue's come out, so I figure it's ok by now to post this- the quick sketch concept of how Surge looks with spikes down as shown in IDW Sonic Imposter Syndrome
#3
, plus a better look at the Frame Dr. Starline showed in page 1
just stop and think and ponder what this means
yes you can make your comic or game about sherlock
yes you can make your comic or game about sherlock being a furry, or a woman, or in the 21st century, or all at once
yes you can have holmes and dracula in your game
BUT ALSO
something people sometimes miss by overfocusing on the characters is the stories themselves are public domain too
do you have characters and want to make a comic but have no ideas? grab your favourite sherlock holmes story, remove sherlock and watson, and place your characters in
noticing a lot of fanart lately seems to have an issue with surge's facemarks, so here, a quick drawing where I did her marks as green instead of black, to make it clear she's got marks on the side of the eyes too
I didn't do the final design of the Dynamo Cage you're seeing in IDW Sonic 52, 53, and so on
but I did this first sketch that
@SpiritSonic
etc then used as a base to polish and do her design etc
so if you think her having all those cables is weird blame me lol
Here's a bunch of characters from interesting games I tried this
@SAGExpo
- maybe not the most polished bunch, but interesting ideas I'll try to keep tabs on overall
Gonna post the twitter handles in reply to have space for it all, so check them out!
the four broad categories of ideas I've seen so far on what to create with this are "gay sherlock" "sherlock vs dracula" "sherlock low budget slasher horror movie" and then surprisingly, multiple accounts of "what if sherlock was a mecha anime"
my cover B for
@IDWPublishing
Sonic the Hedgehog Scrapnik Island
#4
tbh nothing here you haven't seen in the actual cover since the logos weren't covering anything important lol
so adding a WIP too because it looked cool in black and white too
since all the imposter syndrome covers are out, posting this. not entirely happy with it, as I got overwhelmed, was changing computer mid-work, etc. Not bad, but hoping for the chance to do even better.
don't read anything into the sonic advance robot in the bg it's just filler
hasbro lets me design a new shared universe of their properties, I immediately enrage a whole bunch of 40 year old americans due to not respecting the stuff they watched in the 80s
been having issues trying to find these drawings online so reposting them myself
a near decade ago, I commissioned Ben Bates to sketch some redesigns of Sonic the Comic characters. here they are- StC Amy, Grimer, Shortfuse, Tekno. Some fun takes on the Fleetway Sonic cast
now that idw's fang minisseries is all out, I'll start posting concept art I did for it. for now, thought this one would be useful for fanartists- to learn to draw bean's beak, I drew a bunch of expressions, and asked
@virtanderson
to correct them and give notes
your character sunny sunshine the porcupine sunflower can now go and solve the mystery of the hound of the baskervilles or solve murders committed by mormons
and no one can tell you otherwise
unironically, go for it
and for those wondering, here's a quick demonstration of how her electricity works, at least in my head- I imagine it's the sort of detail that'll get forgotten over time. she uses all her metal accessories as a means to more easily conduct the electricity she generates
There, I get to stop pretending this stuff isn't out in the wild already lol. Meet Surge and Kit, the characters me and
@SpiritSonic
co-designed, with in the end Evan taking the lead in finishing Kit and me taking the lead in finishing Surge!
drew this as a joke about IDW Sonic 50 and posted it in a few chats etc, posting it here now that time's passed
surge had a sort of geese howard moment so