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After the popular Sailor Moon Redraw Challenge Twitter user TheChaosSpirit came forward suggesting the infamous screenshot from Sonic The Hedgehog (2006) to be redrawn. You can see their result here twitter.com/TheChaosSpirit/sta… , and I chose to give it a try of my own.

The biggest alteration I did was to swap Princess Elise out for Princess Sally Acorn, an underrated character from the now discontinued Archie's Sonic The Hedgehog comic book canon. While I have nothing against Elise, her character is quite weak and forgettable and I wanted to put a fun twist on the challenge. Sally is a very strong character with a 25-year-history under her belt. She's a strong and independant woman and I felt she would've been a fun character to put in Elise's stead. Her sometimes stoic nature also helps the whole 'Don't cry or Iblis will emerge' plot-line. Sally realy doesn't cry much at all.

I wanted to simplify the scene to put the focus on the characters and their reactions, and I found the background surprisingly busy, with characters standing too close and the lighting being too off. The scene was much too zoomed in as well, so I pulled it out. I've also omitted the chaos emeralds from the shot. While I could see them circle the group I'd rather the scene get dark, illuminated by the kiss like in the game, and then the emeralds would raise up and circle them in order to create Super Sonic, as if Sonic, reinvigorated after the kiss, is raising/summoning them.

I forgot which exact characters were present, but I remembered Knuckles, Silver, and Amy for sure, so I placed them at the scene surrounding Sonic and Sally in an arch. At first I wanted to add subtle tears to Knuckles as if he'd been crying over Sonic's death, which I found funny (think of it with Amy later looking at Knuckles wiping them away and Knuckles yelling, "Don't stare! I just got something in my eye!". Showing a little softness in "tough guys" is just a cute gag to me.) I chose to have Amy stand slightly off to the side with a focus on her. Most people would portray her angry at someone else locking lips with her abuse-toy (and possibly beating Sally to death like she did with Elise in that parody), but I felt an expression of shock and awe would suit her better. She would care more about Sonic's well being rather than her own happiness after all... right?

Another thing that had bothered me is how little Elise touches the supposed love of her life as she leans in to kiss him. Initially, it looks like she doesn't touch him at all, even though she firmly believes him to be alive. I've had Sally place her hands against his head and over his hands in a loving and intense gesture to increase the intimacy and intensity of her actions. I've kept the original line of "Please come back, Sonic! For me, for US!" in mind, so I could see Sally holding him and speak to him this way more than I could with her merely holding onto the table Sonic is laid on.

Lastly, I chose to ink and shade the scene in a Sonic X oriented style. No specific reason. I just like it.

As a small note, please don't get mad at me if you're in the Sonamy camp. I did what I personally prefer and I want to treat Amy with respect for years, though being pushed around for years makes it really hard. I could write an essay about how that stuff probably messed me up for life. I wanted to portray this in a positive sense, with Amy not being hurt or upset, but just glad that Sonic isn't dead after all. It's not to spite Amy, nor you, in any way. I find myself hardly shipping Sally with anyone to begin with, but I made an exception here because I felt that Sally fit the bill over Elise.

So please be civil.

Description

After the popular Sailor Moon Redraw Challenge Twitter user TheChaosSpirit came forward suggesting the infamous screenshot from Sonic The Hedgehog (2006) to be redrawn. You can see their result here twitter.com/TheChaosSpirit/sta… , and I chose to give it a try of my own.

The biggest alteration I did was to swap Princess Elise out for Princess Sally Acorn, an underrated character from the now discontinued Archie's Sonic The Hedgehog comic book canon. While I have nothing against Elise, her character is quite weak and forgettable and I wanted to put a fun twist on the challenge. Sally is a very strong character with a 25-year-history under her belt. She's a strong and independant woman and I felt she would've been a fun character to put in Elise's stead. Her sometimes stoic nature also helps the whole 'Don't cry or Iblis will emerge' plot-line. Sally realy doesn't cry much at all.

I wanted to simplify the scene to put the focus on the characters and their reactions, and I found the background surprisingly busy, with characters standing too close and the lighting being too off. The scene was much too zoomed in as well, so I pulled it out. I've also omitted the chaos emeralds from the shot. While I could see them circle the group I'd rather the scene get dark, illuminated by the kiss like in the game, and then the emeralds would raise up and circle them in order to create Super Sonic, as if Sonic, reinvigorated after the kiss, is raising/summoning them.

I forgot which exact characters were present, but I remembered Knuckles, Silver, and Amy for sure, so I placed them at the scene surrounding Sonic and Sally in an arch. At first I wanted to add subtle tears to Knuckles as if he'd been crying over Sonic's death, which I found funny (think of it with Amy later looking at Knuckles wiping them away and Knuckles yelling, "Don't stare! I just got something in my eye!". Showing a little softness in "tough guys" is just a cute gag to me.) I chose to have Amy stand slightly off to the side with a focus on her. Most people would portray her angry at someone else locking lips with her abuse-toy (and possibly beating Sally to death like she did with Elise in that parody), but I felt an expression of shock and awe would suit her better. She would care more about Sonic's well being rather than her own happiness after all... right?

Another thing that had bothered me is how little Elise touches the supposed love of her life as she leans in to kiss him. Initially, it looks like she doesn't touch him at all, even though she firmly believes him to be alive. I've had Sally place her hands against his head and over his hands in a loving and intense gesture to increase the intimacy and intensity of her actions. I've kept the original line of "Please come back, Sonic! For me, for US!" in mind, so I could see Sally holding him and speak to him this way more than I could with her merely holding onto the table Sonic is laid on.

Lastly, I chose to ink and shade the scene in a Sonic X oriented style. No specific reason. I just like it.

As a small note, please don't get mad at me if you're in the Sonamy camp. I did what I personally prefer and I want to treat Amy with respect for years, though being pushed around for years makes it really hard. I could write an essay about how that stuff probably messed me up for life. I wanted to portray this in a positive sense, with Amy not being hurt or upset, but just glad that Sonic isn't dead after all. It's not to spite Amy, nor you, in any way. I find myself hardly shipping Sally with anyone to begin with, but I made an exception here because I felt that Sally fit the bill over Elise.

So please be civil.