What's This? Monday's Chapter?

What's this? Monday's chapter?

Yes! And a bit of a banger if you ask me, but that would be because it's the peak of the story's action. There's two chapters to go after this, but this is where most of the plot comes to a head.

Enjoy!

Hey look, previews! ::jazz hands::

It's a three-fer this week! Um...with maybe some surprises in store, for anyone who hasn't read the story before, so enjoy, I guess, and no, I'm not offering huge explanations here because that'd be...y'know, spoilers.

But hey, there's one with the in-mind version of Sonic turning a mite yellow, and I'm pretty happy with that one. (Though I realized after the fact that, unlike the other two pictures I did of Sonic in his head, this one I forgot to use the rougher shading brush and instead used the same one as on all the other illustrations. Oh well. It's still fine.)

Then one in a forest scene that almost ended up too muddy because I messed with it too much before I caught it and dialed it back. Also realizing that I drew Rotor's Season 1 design, but gave him a bit more of an Archie color scheme, and I'm okay with this. (I do not like his Season 2 design.) The odd mat shape is mostly due to the way I did the lineart. It was not a square, and I didn't feel like forcing it.

And then the third picture, the one illustration from this entire series that took me the longest. I spent far too much time on playing with this one, but honestly, I think it was worth it. I'm really happy with the lighting effects on it, and unlike the second picture, I don't feel like the time spent on messing with it further was wasted (I didn't have to undo anything unlike some of the muddy shading on the forest scene). I did have to go back and up the saturation on Knuckles a tad because it came out too yellow/desaturated, but that was about it.

And hey, Knux is pink again. Hm.

imagination (1963) - harold ordway rugg

"chekhovs cat / schrödingers razor / occams gun"

So I decided to start posting now, rather than wait another week. I mean, the whole story is written and proofread already anyway, so it's not like I need to build a buffer for this one.

This is not in the same continuity as the previous Sonic fic I posted, just as fair warning. It's part of its own series instead.

And here's the (sole) illustration again, for those who may not have seen it over the weekend, or who want to see it again. :D

Sneak peek!

I finished my cross-post of Falling into Darkness, and thus finished sharing all the illustrations from that one. But I've got something else waiting to start posting to AO3, and it does, in fact, have one single illustration.

Obviously done much more simply. Instead of an attempt at a somewhat comic-style coloring job, I wanted this one to just be sketchy lines and a rough watercolor job, hence the lack of shading.

Stay tuned for an announcement of when I post the first chapter!

It's Monday, and you know what that means! Chapter 12 is now up, and yes, Knuckles is back! And pink!

It's Friday preview time!

After that breather (and low point), we're back to another fight scene! (Why did I do this to myself back when I was writing the thing?)

First up, a fun angle for a nicely dynamic shot. I went a bit stylized with the background, rather than going for more realistic colors for the moment the scene depicts (since it is neither at sunrise nor sunset, and this shot lacks trees). I had to mess around with it a bit extra until I was happy with the background. The horizon line was originally a little too stark.

As for the other... Knuckles is pink. and maybe needs to glow more but I need to stop messing with it and just call it done.