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Introducing Dr. Ova "Cobweb" Techstylez, my Sonic OC; Blaze's arch nemesis and Eggman's sol dimension counterpart!

Much like Eggman, she desires the power to lord over others, but her focus of study is in textile engineering. She's got a passion for fashion, and furs are her favorite. She'd love to get a closer look at Blaze's, if she could just get her hands on her...

#Sonic OC #Dr. Cobweb #Ova Techstylez #blaze the cat #jess's digital odyssey #sonic original character #Sonic fan character #I have some more stuff in store for her as well as more OCs in the works so please stick around! #sonic the hedgehog

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Guys come look at my toys

#Shadow the Hedgehog #Sonic the Hedgehog #Blaze the Cat #jess's digital odyssey #The foot from the bootleg shadow keychain fell off and he got the super glue surgery fix recently #I played a lot with the tools in krita and I had a lot of fun! I learned a lot too :]

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Throwdown Garden

#sonic the hedgehog #chao garden #sonic adventure 2 #jess's digital odyssey #attempt to break through the art block was successful o7

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Tribute to one of my favorite movies of all time + the franchise that has me in a death grip 💖

a bit late for Christmas but at least Valentine's day is around the corner ^^;;

Process below if that interests you:

AS I SAID EARLIER, I had been working on this piece as early as December of 2021 😱!!!

This was the original sketch! I was inspired after learning about Blaze's own design inspiration coming from Takarazuka theater, as well as it being the Nutcracker season so this film was in bouncing around in my head.

and this was allllll the way back in 2021 ^^; I had put the idea to paper to capture the image in my head immediately. But the idea in my head was extravagant and beautiful and would certainly take time to complete, as well as the patience and skill to work with watercolor 😔 I've certainly done my share of watercolor, both physical and digital, but I still feel like my physical watercolor work is a fluke, and I was still a novice digital artist at the time of this sketch.

In short, I was confident my skill could live up to the vision.

So I would put this on the back burner. It wouldn't be ready in time for Christmas, and I could use this as an opportunity to hone that digital art experience so it could be ready next year!

2 Years Later...

It's December 5th. Fuck it. Let's crack this open again, I tell myself.

SO starting with the line art, it's actually 2 different brushes layered over one another.

I also changed Sonic's expression to be more love struck-looking, because I'm a sucker for romance.

The image on the left is a watercolor line brush, while the right is a pencil brush. The reason I wanted a water color look was because I thought it would make the illustration look dreamy and fantastical, and I wanted that to extend to the line art as well. However, my usual lines on traditional usually veer more towards thick and cartoony from years of studying the Sonic art style, so I really felt like I was working against myself here. I had also asked friends for their input and they preferred the lines on the right as well. If my followers actually do read these blog posts, I'd love if you could comment which line art style you prefer drawing or looking at.

The happy medium was to just combine the 2. Here's a better look at that:

I like it! I think it combines the solid line with the rustic water color grain. Best of both worlds :]

For the actual painting, The most notable thing I can say is that getting the right pastel-y color was VERY difficult to achieve for someone like me who often loves to use bright and saturated colors in her art. I feel like I really set myself up to do one of those "evil art style" or "opposite art style" challenges I've been seeing around. I had to repaint Sonic at one paint because the blue of his fur was WAY too saturated for the style I was going for:

I started with painting Sonic and Blaze in first and then working on the background. I think that's probably the backwards way of doing it but one of the perks of digital art is you can do stuff any order you want when you have layers.

The background wasn't actually as difficult as I thought it would be. I wasn't going for any difficult perspective, and I was using a reference so that could be it. I'm usually averse to backgrounds but I really wanna tackle more of my weak points in art. I actually had way more fun than I was expecting, painting the sky and adding texture to the grass. I think I had the most fun rendering the water coming from the fountain (which you can't even see too well anyway, lol).

Funny enough, I had just about finished painting the characters and background by early January. So why am I posting this in February?

The Flowers...

In case you don't know. I love flowers. I love looking at them, I love learning about flower languages, I love drawing them. so seeing that my reference image showed flowers circling the fountain, I was excited! I was already having more fun than I expected to be, working against my usual style, rendering a background, so how could this be a pain in the ass?

Well, I am my own worst enemy 😞I couldn't exactly identify each flower offhand from this screenshot alone. The texture of the flowers is kinda grainy, since I don't think the animators were expecting viewers to look too closely at the set piece to use as reference for my lovingly crafted crossover fanart. If anyone has this in high quality though, please tell me.

(I think I actually got this reference from a tumblr post but I can't find it on my blog for the life of me nor can I find it in the tags I'm so sorry)

I'm a huge stickler for details so I really wanted to be as "accurate" as possible in my illustration. I can hardly identify some of these flowers with confidence. I think there are roses in there? or tulips? I'm not sure if those yellow flowers are roses or some kinda petunia or if I'm way off.

I'm sure these details won't matter to most viewers but it was EATING AWAY AT ME. Eventually I decided to try drawing in flowers that might look similar to the ones in the reference. Or some based on their flower languages. I was certainly overthinking it ;;;; It led me to going "fuck it" and just throwing in whatever I wanted. There are no irises visible in that screenshot but I made it the centerpiece of the flower ring. Who give a shit.

I made some guides for me to follow: The blue ring was so I could make sure the flowers make a half circular border around Sonic and Blaze. I was envisioning how it could look as like an icon or sticker or something, which is why it's framed this way. then the second guide is the sketch of the flowers I made. I always do line art and I'm not great at just improvising with color to paper, or color to screen in this case.

The rest of this process is then just working on each flower piece by piece (with the help of the mirror tool of course) with varying degrees of detail. Some flowers are more abstract than others, and I had debated if that would look jarring and disrupted any kind of harmony I was trying to maintain with the style parameters I set for myself. And then I decided I was overthinking it once again which is why this was taking me nearly 2 months to complete.

At some point during this process, my wifi went out for a whole week! Of course, I could still work on this illustration offline, but I had a lot of tabs open with a bunch of reference images on there (plus I like to listen to music while I draw otherwise I lose focus and I had neglected to download a varied selection on my phone or laptop 😭 Learn from my mistakes).

The most tedious of this process was making each set of gladioluses a unique color.

Was it worth it? You tell me! I think they're pretty, at least.

Along the way, I repainted the grass because it wasn't symmetrical (It didn't need to be but I had been using the mirror tool for a lot at this point and it was bugging me). I made other little final adjustments, like color adjusting the leaves on the flowers, lowering the flower ring border, and so on.

Ultimately, I'm extremely satisfied with the final product. I had my heart set on doing something like this for a long time. I had so much fun just experimenting throwing on color or not worrying about technical stuff. Of course, I did do what I usually do and overthink it at some points, but I'm working on it!

I've wanted to do an extremely indulgent AU illustration and other drawings for a Sonic x The Nutcracker story for a long while. I will be totally honest, I'm still a little embarrassed to share stuff like this, even after years of posting fan art online. It feels like the more self indulgent something is, the more people might judge me for it ^^; But I wanna practice what I preach and kill the thing inside me that cringes at my harmless attempts at joy and whimsy.

I would love to do some more drawings for this AU, but maybe post them around December when it would be more seasonally appropriate. I hope you'll stick around for it!

If you read this whole thing to the end, thank you. Whether you follow my blog or not, I hope you have a lovely day :3💝

#Barbie in the Nutcracker #Sonic the Hedgehog #Blaze the Cat #Sonaze #Jess's Digital Odyssey #Sorry for not posting frequently it may happen again

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Sailor Fukus ✨

#sonic the hedgehog #cream the rabbit #btw if anyone has the original source for that sonic nendoroid picture I would really appreciate if you sent it to me thank you #doodles

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Learning to draw the bunny bride =:3

The first sketch is from memory and the second is with references. The other ones are just sonic-ified elphelts because I can't help myself.

#elphelt valentine #guilty gear #guilty gear xrd #sonic the hedgehog #I would like to draw more guilty gear but that will also require more practice. I'd like to sonic-ify them too but we'll see about that lol #jess's digital odyssey

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A request for something a little different than usual 🍑👑

Progress stuff below:

I haven't done progress shots in a bit and I think it's something I want to do more often because I like talking and blogging I guess haha.

Now that I have more experience illustrating digitally, this kind of direct reference drawing is MUCH easier to do digitally 😫honestly this felt like a self imposed challenge lol. BUT I did want to do some more traditional stuff because I feel that I had been doing a little too much digital, if that makes sense. It's nice to play with my markers and color pencils once in a while too!!

Doing the line art on this piece ESPECIALLY felt easier to do traditionally than digitally. For some reason, trying to do line art on a tablet screen feels too smooth or slippery or something. Lining traditionally feels easier, probably because I put so much pressure on the paper in the sketch phase that when the lining phase comes next, it feels like I'm just following the lines on the page like a train on a track ^_^

despite uploading a couple of illustrations colored with marker now, I still feel a bit like a novice when it comes to marker. I got a new pack of markers that I wanted to play with, which was even more motivation to return to paper for a bit. But honestly, I feel like I fudged the window color blending. I watched tutorials and stuff on blending with markers but I guess I still need more practice ^^;;; at least it looks a bit messy to me. This is how this piece came to be a mixed media illustration, since I tried using color pencils to make that transition from blue to green on the windows a little smoother.

I think the pot holding the piranha plant came out a tad too saturated and it's calling too much attention compared to the very light floor and dresser. I was trying to follow the colors on the reference closely as an easy re-intro to traditional art, but next time I do something like this, I think I'll take more liberties with color and see what happens.

Overall, I'm quite happy with how Peach turned out. I don't draw humans too often since I typically draw Sonic characters lol. Sometimes it feels like I have to re-teach myself to draw people as a result. I really liked using the gelly roll for the highlights on her face and the polka dots on her shirt :3 I highly recommend using that pen as my previous experiences with other white gel pens don't compare to this one (not to sound like a commercial I'm just really happy it worked as well as it did!).

And finally, although redrawing a creation from a dress up game screenshot is probably not the most imaginative exercise I could be doing with illustration, I think it's fun and it's pushing me to do things outside of my comfort zone. I'm using new art tools (I'll get better with marker I prommy) and I drew a background! I'd like to do more backgrounds like this as a practice to encourage more original stuff. Maybe. One day. Probably.

If you read all of this until the end, thank you! Have a wonderful day, and thank you for following me and supporting my art :3c 💝

#princess peach #super mario bros #the dress up game is called 'pink cutie' in case anyone wanted to know

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Art Trade with @cloudvampire !!!! Experimenting with water color once again :3c This is their OC Nox the Dormouse wearing THIS lovely gown

The one on the left is scanned and the one on the right is taken with my phone. Tell me which you prefer!

#sonic ocs #not my oc #sonic the hedgehog #nox the dormouse #cloudvampire #OH man what a process this was #but I think I feel better about using watercolor now #art trade

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I couldn't help myself. Bi Sonic & Blaze icons 💗💜💙

#not art #hiii hiiiii look at these icons i made

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Lesbian Cream & Marine icons be upon ye ❤️🧡🤍💗💜

Feel free to use! :3

#not art #but i did make these icons :]

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Commissions are OPEN!💝

Check out my carrd for more details!:

#pinned #commissions #reblogs appreciated thank you <3

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UPDATE:

SO my body decided I was definitely taking those two weeks off because the day after I made that announcement post about my aforementioned break, my wrist just totally gave out out and I needed to rest it for that whole time ^^;;

My wrist is fine now though and I'm feeling much better! I'm even thinking of opening commissions again next week. I'll probably make an announcement post when I do.

Please learn from my mistakes. TAKE BREAKS. STRETCH BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER DRAWING SESSIONS. LOVE YOURSELF. Have a nice day :3

#jess talks #not art #seriously do not fuck around you gotta take breaks and don't push yourself when you're drawing #<3

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I said, "Ooh, girl! Shock me like an electric eel

reference below:

https://twitter.com/Sugar_Crush__/status/1571654262299693056

Was inspired by that tweet BUT images below as well + bonus shirt

#surge the tenrec #idw sonic #sonic the hedgehog #jess's digital odyssey #first art I finished since my wrist healed!! yay!!! please clap

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The results are IN! I shall draw blorbos in little outfits!!!

Trying to ease back into art for funsies so what should I do as a warm up/light project

#jess talks #not art #I don't know if I'll be taking requests yet or find some inspiration of my own #but if I take requests I'll let you guys know tomorrow

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Trying to ease back into art for funsies so what should I do as a warm up/light project

#jess talks #not art #YAY I can make a silly little poll now

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Thought it would be fun to share the alt outfits I concocted for the last 2 commissions I worked on :3c

#surgaze #surge the tenrec #Blaze the Cat #Surge The Tenrec x Blaze The Cat #sonic the hedgehog #jess's digital odyssey #doodles

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Commissions Closed!

Although that last commission project makes me feel like I leveled up a whole ton with my skills, I am also EXTREMELY POOPED and will be closing commissions for the next 2 weeks.

 I wanna focus on doing some art for myself for a bit, so please stay tuned!!

#jess talks #not art