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The year is coming to an end. You know what that means. It’s time for this year’s Summary of Art!
2025 has definitely been one of my best drawing years. I was super confident in my art this year, and I drew a lot of stuff that was very me. I feel like I’ve improved a lot this year, but I guess that happens every year.
In these last couple months, there’s been some struggles (elbow pain is my worst enemy, as an artist), but I still drew some really good drawings!
Anyway, that’s enough introduction. Let’s get into it!

I honestly forgot that this one was from this year. I thought I drew it last year.
Anyway, even though it’s an older drawing, I still think it’s one of my best drawings of Sonic. I feel like I captured his design and attitude perfectly!

This was when I was starting my second Sonic Frontiers playthrough. I was inspired by the giant field of flowers on Kronos Island in the game, and I wanted to draw it. And I decided to add the kocos in, too, because they’re cute!
I remember that inking that field of flowers took forever. But, in the end, I’m really happy with out it came out!

I went over the story of this one in my Sonic Forces Shenanigans post. I’m still really happy with that fire effect.

This is an early drawing of him, but it’s still one of my favorites. I love the lighting on his mask. And his hair turned out really nice, too!
Although, one thing that I realized later on is that his one hand may or may not be on backwards. I feel like I placed his thumb a little weirdly. But, it’s too late. The drawing’s already done. And, even with that little mistake, I’m still really happy with it!

I know, I know. I’ve said it a thousand times on this blog. But I’ll say it again. Sonic Forces is my favorite Sonic game, because I’m so cool and different! (No. It’s because I played the game and genuinely loved it. But I am still cool and different, because I’m a creative person).
Anyway, this drawing is meant to look like the cover for the Sonic Forces album, Vocal Traxx On the Edge. It was really fun playing around with different techniques! And the logo turned out really good, too. I drew it by hand, and I’m really proud of myself for putting in that effort!

This drawing took forever! I had so many layer folders to keep the characters and the background all nice and organized. But it turned out really good!
Although, I do think it’s funny that I gave my OC the Hover Wispon. NEVER use the Hover Wispon when you’re fighting Infinite! It literally deals no damage. Use the Lightning one, and just smack him with the lightning whip over and over again. Just a pro gamer tip from Shadez.

Just some Sonic characters doing funny expressions. That’s all.

This is based on a fanfiction that I started this summer. It’s Sonic characters in a fantasy setting. Sonic is an awesome knight (inspired by Sonic and the Black Knight, obviously). Infinite is the main antagonist. He’s a warlock who’s trying to bring the demons to the mortal world to destroy it.
I haven’t worked on it in a long time. Writing fanfiction is a little tricky, and I don’t do it as often as I used to. But it still is fun whenever I feel like doing a bit of writing. But, yeah, I would like to pick up this story again someday. I was pretty proud of it!

Finally! Some Warcraft art!
If you’ve read my comic, I’m sure you recognize my dwarf warrior, Argrim. The other is his wife, Shaimina, my dwarf rogue. My story that I had in mind when I drew this is that they had their first date at Brewfest.
I’m really happy with the colors on this one! I was specifically going for a warm, cozy color palette. I think I captured the look I was going for pretty well!

Some of my best Sonictober drawings! I go into more detail on these drawings in their original post. They’re both based on funny things my younger siblings did. And I’m still really happy with that Mephiles! It was my first time ever drawing him!

I’ve never played Sally Face. But my sister has. So, I decided to draw both of our favorite knife-wielding, traumatized horror protagonists.

This one’s inspired by one of the Sonic IDW comic variant covers. I had a lot of fun with the poses, and that dramatic lighting!
And, that’s my 2025 Summary of Art! I hope you all enjoyed the drawings, and have a happy New Year!

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On December 14th, 2018, I drew my first ever drawing of Illidan Stormrage. For almost six years, he was the main character that I drew. There’s so much that I love about this guy. His design. His story. His personality. His angst. His weapons. His voice. He’s definitely one of the characters who has stuck with me the longest. I remained absolutely obsessed with him for most of my teen years.

This all started because I was playing through Legion for the first time. I had just gotten to Argus, so I was seeing Illidan a lot. And, while I was playing through Argus, I was also reading through the Illidan novel that was a prequel to Legion. Basically, young Shadez was seeing Illidan so much at that time, and decided that he was the coolest character ever.

I drew him probably around at least 500 times all together. I wrote a ton of fanfictions about him—two of which passed the 100,000-word mark (the current one is getting close to 200,000 words). I dressed up as him for Halloween three times, I believe. I read the aforementioned book 20+ times.
Basically, I was completely obsessed.
And, seven years later, I still am.

My Illidan phase took a brief break towards the end of 2024. I’ve mentioned before that I ran into problems on social media that led me to quit. These problems were fandom-related, and, unfortunately, tainted my love for Illidan slightly. I came to associate him with social media and the toxicity of fandom. So, I decided to step away from social media and from Illidan for a little while. I didn’t want my love for this character to be completely ruined.
In the meantime, I became obsessed with Sonic the Hedgehog. I started playing Sonic Frontiers shortly after I quit social media. I quickly became hooked. In the next few months, I also played Sonic and the Black Knight, Sonic Adventure, and The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog.
And, then, towards the end of Feburary of 2025, I played Sonic Forces.
And this is how all this Sonic nonsense relates to Illidan.
You know Infinite? Yeah, the villain from this game who never showed up again? The one who just so happened to be another edgelord voiced by Liam O’Brien?

Being as obsessed with Illidan as I was, it was only natural that Infinite would remind me of him. Seeing him in action got me really excited. I got attached to Infinite really fast. He was a really cool villain, obviously. But, like I said, he reminded me so much of Illidan. The voice. The edginess. His attitude. Very full of himself and a little overconfident. He has that same dramatic way of speaking.
After playing Sonic Forces, my Illidan phase came back. Infinite reminded me of how cool Illidan is. I picked up my Illidan fanfiction again shortly after playing Sonic Forces. For most of 2025, I’ve been obsessed with both WoW and Sonic.
And, then, in October, Legion Remix started, which definitely helped me get even more obsessed with Illidan again. I was thinking about giving up on my fanfiction again recently (my confidence struggles are really bad, okay?), but then I brought one of my Timerunners to Argus. That inspired me to continue working on my fanfiction again (not on a strict schedule, just whenever I feel like it).

So, thanks to Sonic Forces and Legion Remix, my Illidan obsession is back in full swing. While he’s not my primary obsession right now, Illidan will always be one of my favorites.


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