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Joshels — SonicCD Style, Practice 2
Published: 2006-11-30 20:35:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 1373; Favourites: 42; Downloads: 38
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For those of you who thought the first one was decent, I hope this one pleases you further. I personally think this was a much better pic to work with than that first.Normally, I'm not a Son+Amy fan, so there will be few occasions when I will draw the two together, but I do like this pic very muchly. If I'm not mistaken, Sonic CD was pretty much the first appearance of Amy, correct? Way before she was turned into a much more annoying character and atempted to be set up as Sonic's love interest.
I really got to work-out my ever-changing method of shading here, and even evolved it a little. Just hope I didn't go overboard in places, as the original movie actually has very little shading whatsoever.
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Nothing wrong with the shading, I think it looks great. How did you do the lineart, did you get it straight off the screenshot or did you just use a screenshot for reference?
CD was her first game, yup (she appeared in a manga before that, but she looked different). She was only eight, so her love for Sonic was obviously a little girl's crush on her hero. I'm totally with you though, she turned annoying later on. What I keep wondering is, why do we never see her psychic powers after CD? And why didn't she stay a tomboy?
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Psychic powers? I must've missed that
This is actually drawn right over the screenshot with a mouse at a high zoom level. Pretty much tracing now that I look back at it
Thanks for the detailed comment!
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That sounds like the British (Fleetway) story... In that comic, the friendly Dr Kintobor accidentally turned into Robotnik. It also says Sonic was brown from the start, and that one lab experiment fused his quills and turned him blue when he ran at the speed of sound for the first time. He was fast from the start, though - it was just that the shoes Kintobor made for him allowed him to use all that speed without hurting his feet.
Confusing lot, those comics 
I meant the old manga in the school-kids magazine Yonensei. But I don't know much about it (it's a really corny version) - it's her profile in CD I go by.
(quoting Michael "G.Silver" Stearns's translation)
Rosie the Rascal
Real Name / Amy Rose
Gender / Female
Age / 8
Personality / Energetic tomboy.
Talent Weather (*)
Specialty? / Card Reading - Dousing (*)
The marked(*) ones are uncertain translations. So it's not too clear what that weather talent would be, but it'd be logical if it was about foreseeing weather changes or something... And the other, most probably, is about finding water.
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Yeah, that sounds about right. My buddy was probably showing me a snippet from one of the comics. Been wanting to check those out...heard some good and bad about Fleetway, but it's more Sonic I can take in
Been wanting to get a basic understanding of all his little micro-universes and see if I can't come up with an uber-version of Sonic featuring the best of all worlds.
Weather as a talent eh? Hmmmm, that is confusing >_<
But I'd say Card Reading would count as being psychicly inclined. Wouldn't of thought of that lookin' at Amy, but hokay.
You seem to be a very learned individual regarding Sonic lore. Nice to meetcha'
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I'd recommend to read Fleetway. It's got its quirks from my point of view but I like to think it's more like the games than Archie. You can always start by checking out the fan-made online version still going: [link]
Anyone who could get a version together of all universes would have my respect 
Best merge I've seen so far is Judasfm's Sonic fics on fanfiction.net - Start with Rising Star if you wanna see them!
About weather talent:
Got a WIP comic (still on concept level) takes place four years after today's games, and I kind of turned Amy back to her old self there. What I interpreted her fuzzy "weather" talent to then is to sense weather changes and find water (like with a dowse) - her sensitivity increases so that toward the end of it she'll be able to "hear" high / low-pressure areas coming in like they were soundwaves.
Pleasure to meet you too! Being all forward, do you mind a watch exchange? (gonna watch you anyway, so there)
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Not forward at all, I'm delighted to watch exchange.
Yeah, I try to make my ideas more than just throwing the Freedom Fighters and Sally into the mix. Currently I'm trying to combine SatAM, Archie, the old Sega games, and the little I know about the more recent games. Hence, my urge to find out more about the other versions of Sonic, I wanna get the whole enchilada, nobody left out. Difficult proposition...
But sure, I've been told about STC before, didn't know it was a continuation of Fleetway though. I'll definately have to check that out.
Nice thoughts on Amy's weather talent. Sounds like a fairly unique ability, a living divining rod. Useful to have around in a village.
I've got a few ideas about her myself, mostly trying to make her fit into my more "SatAM-ish" story. She's got huge potential for noticable character development.
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It'd be fun to read that thing if you make it... My problem with this comic I want to make is that I know too little about the recent games. I have to read up... I don't wanna play 'em XD
STC I think was the name even when Fleetway published it, they've changed it to STC Online now to mark the difference. I still need to read more official STC, I only saw snippets.
With Sally inserts in games, I'm just playing with designs so far - though I did write down a draft for a race between Sonic and Sally... And there's a story around that that I'd really like to pursue if I can.
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A race between Sonic and Sally? How could that even be a contest? 
Well, my wild fantasy is to take my "vision" of the combined Sonic-verses and actually make the awesome game Sonic deserves. 'Cuz I've completely played through SA2 for GameCube and STH for 360, I got a little bit into the first SA, and I barely touched Heros when I decided to abandon that in favor of keeping my sanity >_<
You've got the right idea...they're not really that great to play at all
But of course my dream of making the ultimate Sonic game is highly unlikely and certainly not gonna happen anytime soon if it does come true, in the meantime you might get a series of comics or fics out of me though to save my head from bursting
STC Online is fan-made right? One of these days I'm gonna have to scour eBay or somewhere for the old Fleetway comics, and some of the Archie's I'm missing as well.
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Actually I've already written a draft of the race, only a page or two and subject to change, but you can read it if you like 
I'd like to read old Fleetway too. Despite some ideas that don't agree with me, it's got its very own feel that somehow grabs me. The feel's a bit like the games, but different, and definitely very different from Archie.
Obvious differences too, details like Knuckles's "chest mark" is a necklace in Fleetway, Amy's got brown eyes, Tails is from another dimension...
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Yes, I would definately like to read your story
With the islands, Sonic and Sally meeting, and some mysterious artifact it all sounds very interesting to me.
Well, earlier Archie comics originally had Sonic with deep brown eyes (actually, they're drawn as they were in the classic games, big black pupils. But a few artists made them dark brown in a couple issues). I think I was browsing google images for some pictures from Fleetway and I saw one of Knux wearing a necklace, I wondered about that...but Tails being from another dimension?!? Well, I guess that's one way to explain the extra tail and his magic ability to use them for flight.
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So far it's just a draft of the key moments of the race... But what's your msn or e-mail, I could send it to either?
If I remember right, Tails was warped from another Zone and they're like different dimensions in Fleetway. But I don't think anyone except him had two tails there. But otherwise, Fleetway's "signum" is really how they try to explain a lot of things that others leave unexplained. Like Amy's and Sonic's colors, and Robotnik's madness...
Interesting that Archie actually had his eyes brown at some point(s)!
I'll even give Amy brown eyes in Chaos & Order. 
On a side note about C&O (the comic I'm making) I guess you should 've seen by now I have some funny ideas, but is there anything you want heads-up on?... I'm thinking I should put warnings on some of my stuff.
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Ah yes, of course. Mein e-mail is suprblahman@gmail.com
I'd be delighted to give your draft a look-see
That's cool that you say Fleetway tries to explain lots of stuff, that's what I wanna do by blending all the Sonic universes. Each one has its own merits, different bits of background stories and entirely unique characters altogether. With some work, I think it all can intertwine together pretty well without leaving loose ends and big plot holes.
I really prefer the classic look of the brown eyes. Actually I prefer the pure black the most, but if you wanna make other characters with seperate irises and pupils it looks strange to have Sonic randomly with more cartoonish eyes than the rest...so the dark brown makes a proper substitute. And you're right, it's a nuetral eye-color pretty much. Safe for a default.
And don't worry in the least about needing to give heads-up or warnings for me. I can take whatever funny ideas you throw at me
Although I do frown at when people make gay couplings, I have an open mind concerning anything else when it comes to peoples' fanart/fiction.
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I like to make Sonic's eyes a brown-almost-black. Like black with a shade of brown on one side, sort of. My latest drawings look like that, I've finally pinned down the style I like from the old game art
I'd like to read a story that got all universes together somehow, since my own take is mainly treating them as different dimensions or parallel universes.
(Forgot that in the note)
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I'd be deeply honored if you were inspired by these to do some Sonic CD art of your own
Hmm, that intrigues me. I have the Mega Col. on PS2 and so far (haven't unlocked everything) there is no Sonic PC. I'll have to look into that.
But really, you don't think it's the same movie?
I happen to have the .avi in question on my mobile HD and I've uploaded it really quick. All you gotta do is type the little verification code in the box and download the file. Aside from how they make the animation go into a small box to make room for the credits, isn't that the same video when you beat the game without collecting all emeralds?
Click this -> [link] <-
Anyhoo, with that file hopefully you can snag a few worthy stills to help yourself
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What is it with these? I just can't help but to fav them instantly... XD
This is a really nice pic, much mroe onmodel than the last one and the shading is awesome
This proves to me that when you have grasped the line art, you can become a *very* good artist.
Btw, this is from the outro right?
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Correct, this is the outro. Sonic has just run away from Robotnik's...I dunno what to call it, city, ship, whatever...but it was falling apart. He's setting Amy down so he can go punk Robotnik before he gets away
But, if you're uber-knowledgable about SCD, you'll also know this is but 1 of the 2 possible endings, and this is the "bad" one.
What is it with these that make you want to fav them? I dunno, but I'm very much appreciative
And very true observation, the hardest part in the entire process of making art like this, is the initial line-art. After that, the coloring, shading, all flows and ultimately adds to the end product, but if the line-art was flawed it just can't make up for it. That's probably why these are so appealing is because the line-art was handed to me.
The main flaw with the lines now is that I made the thickness inconsistant when I redrew them.
Thanks muchly for the fav and kind words...I have 2 more of these...let's see if I can keep this up for the whole collection
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Btw, this is a bad ending? Can't really see what's so bad about it
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lol
Bad ending in the sense that Robotnik's floating "thing" ends up not being destroyed, means the player didn't gather all the chaos emeralds. Otherwise, it shows the "thing" blow up and shower stars upon everything...it's not really that it's BAD!
Just not as good as it could be.
But literaly, the file is entitled "BADEND" and the other "GOODEND" >.<
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Ahh ^^
Where did you get the flicks? I'd really want them
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I own the PC game and I just browsed the CD and found the actual files. I'm gonna see if they already have it online somewhere like YouTube or something like that...if not, I just might have to upload them for 'ya
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That'd be awesome if you'd upload them, as the youtube quality isn't that good and all ^^
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Well, unfortunately these files are of horrible quality as well...and my favorite part of the outro (shows Sonic battling badniks and stuff, basically makes a movie outta things you'd do in-game. Really neat action sequences with plenty of Sonic's attitude mixed in) is minimized into a little window so they can roll the credits next to it...and that gives the video even worse quality than before >.<
BUT, if you wanna see it in awesome full-screen glory, perfect quality, I reccomend getting ahold of the Sonic Gems Collection for Gamecube. I know the other one, the Mega Collection Plus released for PS2 and Xbox, but I believe Gems only made it to Gamecube. It has some of the lesser games on it, granted, but they're also more unique. And Sonic CD is on there, with these glorious videos in a lot better quality and resolution than the actual PC CD.
But yeah, I'll try uploading them later today perhaps
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I have the Mega col. for the GC and the intro and outro is in it, but not the bad (or less good
Ya know, all your Sonic CD drawing has made me want to start doing it myself
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