This is another one based on Mario and Sonic at the Olympics (yay!). Whenever my younger sister plays as Metal Sonic, she always makes him talk like a LEGO Movie robot. This especially happens a lot in the Dream Racing game whenever anyone gets the lightning power-up.
Day 9: Want Tea?
Mephiles: “Hello there, Sonic. Want tea?”
I’m just gonna start out by saying that none of us have played Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) before (it’s not on any consoles we own or Steam). But my brother has played Shadow Generations (the other game that has Mephiles in it), and he thinks Mephiles is neat.
This is based on something he said once while he and my younger sister were playing together last year. This was happening in me and my older sister’s bedroom, and we were all laughing. And I had this drawing sitting in my head for a year, so it was nice to finally get it on paper.
Also, this is my first time ever drawing Mephiles. I think he turned out pretty great! Of course, because he’s having a tea party, I had to give him a cute little hat!
If you can’t tell from my 200+ (and counting)-page fancomic, I’m only a little obsessed with World of Warcraft: Legion. So, when Legion Remix was announced months ago, I was super excited! I obviously had to do a drawing for this special day!
This one came from right after I beat Sonic Forces for the second time in August. I decided to check Wowhead after beating the game to see if there was any WoW news. Because I had just finished playing Sonic Forces, I was still doing my character impressions as I looked through a Wowhead post showing a bunch of the mounts that will be in Legion Remix. There are going to be a lot. And I’ve been very into mount-collecting for the last few years. We’ll see how many I end up getting.
And, for anyone who might be curious, I already know who my first Legion Timerunner is going to be. He’s going to be a vulpera shadow priest named Mugen (Japanese for infinite). Making WoW characters based on characters I like is nothing new to me. I’ve literally been doing it since I started playing WoW back in 2017. That’s why so many of my characters have “vision” in their names. Because that was back when my big obsession was Avengers, and my favorite Avenger is Vision.
This is based on once when I was playing Sonic Forces, and I was yapping about Infinite (as I often do), and I was saying that “I got chills” about something, and my siblings thought I was about to say that “I got teary.”
We were all laughing afterwards, because the funny they weren’t wrong to assume that I might have gotten teary-eyed over Infinite. I’m a very emotional person, and I get very passionate about the characters that I love.
So, for the drawing, I decided to draw an emotional Sonic hugging a very confused Infinite.
Day 6: Embrace the Cringe
This one isn’t necessarily based on anything. This one’s kind of a self care drawing. As everyone does, I’ve been going through one of my phases where I feel a little insecure about the stuff I do and my interests.
These phases are a lot more common for me than they used to be. I’m sure part of it is just growing up. But my time on social media definitely didn’t help. In 2024, I was judged a lot for my interests and my ways of doing things in DMs. I know that you shouldn’t take things that jerks online say personally, but I do tend to internalize things (another thing I’m working on). Because I didn’t want to put up with this for the rest of my life, this is what led to me quitting social media (twice). When I returned to social media with my Sonic fanart briefly, I never got any mean comments, but I saw them coming a mile away. Mainly because of my unironic love for Sonic Forces (a hated game) and Infinite (a hated character from that hated game). I just didn’t want to take any chances.
Lately, I’ve been working on getting over this. It’s been some time. I’m really starting to see how stupid it all was now. Now, I’m focusing on drilling it into my brain that it’s all stupid. My love for Infinite and the way I write Illidan Stormrage in my silly fanfictions don’t actually matter. All that matters is that I’m having fun and not hurting anyone. I’ve actually been trying to draw Infinite a lot more lately. It kinda feels like a remedy for my social media brain-rot, drawing one of my most widely-disliked favorite characters, and embracing my genuine love for him. It also kinda feels like an act of defiance, because online fandoms seem to want everyone to be exactly the same. So, that’s another way to look at it (because I can be a little petty at times).
Anyway, that got really long. I’ve just been wanting to explain why I quit social media for a while now for any of my old followers who might be reading my posts (not sure how many of them do, but it’s the thought that counts). I’ve just been having a hard time finding a healthy way to approach it. Because I want my blog to be a happy space in the sea of negativity online. And my little encouraging doodle for myself today presented a good opportunity to speak up.
Anyway, I hope you didn’t mind my ramblings. And that you enjoyed the art, of course.
I decided to put these two in the same post, because they’re both on the same page of my sketchbook. And yesterday was Fel and Blades day, and I consider the comic posts to be the more important blog posts. These ones are just for fun!
Sonic: “What?” Yeah. I’m sure we’re all just as confused as Sonic. And if you want to know the context, there’s none. This was another instance of my siblings and I being completely random. But we all have fun being random, especially when we’re hanging out!
Day 4: Surfer Amy
Amy: “Surf’s up, dude!” This is based on one time when my siblings and I were playing Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games: Tokyo 2020. (Man, the titles for these games are so long… I usually just call it “Mario and Sonic at the Olympics”, “Mario and Sonic”, or simply “The Olympics”.)
Anyway, I really want to do more art based on this game, because it’s one of my favorites! It might be my favorite multiplayer game, but both Super Smash Bros: Ultimate and Sonic and the Secret Rings party mode are hard to beat. Mario and Sonic is definitely in my top three!
(A quick rundown of what they’re saying, because I’m not confident in my handwriting or picture-taking skills…)
Infinite: “He wasn’t worth killing.”
Eggman: “So…. He beat you?”
Infinite: “….”
Infinite: “Sigh….”
Infinite: “He beat me…”
Eggman: “Thought so.”
This one was a really fun one! The joke is based on that scene from Sonic Forces after the first Infinite boss fight where he totally could have killed Sonic, but just flew off instead. Obviously, they couldn’t actually have him kill Sonic, because then the game would be over in only a few levels. I just think it’s funny how he claimed that Sonic “wasn’t worth killing”.
So, this is Infinite going back to his boss, and telling Eggman that he messed up, but coming up with a cool and edgy excuse for it.
A big thing I was playing around with on this one was trying to make Infinite more expressive. Which isn’t easy to do, considering that the only part of his face you can see is just one eye. I had to focus a lot on his body language, and just doing what I could with that single eye. Overall, I think it turned out pretty great!
This year, I’m doing Sonictober! This is also my first time ever doing a more traditional Inktober, where I’m just doing ink drawings, because I’ve been having fun with my pens in my sketchbook this year!
Anyway, this drawing is based on an exciting moment I had in Sonic Adventure 2 a few weeks ago. My first chao grew up! I’ve never had a chao evolve before, so it was very exciting, going into the Chao Garden, and seeing a cocoon sitting there!
My chao’s name is Peaches, and she grew up to be a Hero chao. And I have a lot more chaos who are still babies. The Chao Garden is definitely my favorite part of the Sonic Adventure games! It has been since I was a kid.
Anyway, that’s all I have to say about this one! Come back tomorrow for the next Sonictober post!
