Here's The Preview For The Upcoming Chapter Of Falling Into Darkness. Keeping With The Grey Theme, Because

Here's the preview for the upcoming chapter of Falling into Darkness. Keeping with the grey theme, because apparently all my illustrations for a while are in Robotropolis.

This chapter just has one illustration, and our first proper full-body look at roboticized Sonic. I drew some inspirations from the design for Mecha Sonic (roboticized Sonic) in the Archie comics, such as with the gold elements, but also wanted this design to be its own thing (and needed certain design elements to be present for...reasons). I also really like how the shape of his curled hand became so much clearer to read when I colored some of the incidental lines to be closer to his "skintone."

As for Sally, her overall design is inspired by a lot of things. I'm not great at drawing her SatAM incarnation, and have honestly been a lot more influenced by how she looked through the bulk of the Archie comics (thanks to reading that for a while in college, and from the sheer amount of fanart of that version I've seen). I tried to tweak her look my way to have her fit in with the Sega-styled characters, without just resorting to her post-reboot look from the comics. I'm pretty happy with it.

I didn't originally have a background sketched in for this picture. It was just Sally and Sonic facing off against each other. I started painting random fog around them, which looked fine, but then decided I wanted to take a stab at painting the scrap yard behind them instead, very roughly with a painterly brush. (By the way, I cannot recommend Jazza's digital brushes enough; I'm very happy with how they feel to work with, and they're what I'm primarily using for all the shading and effects and the like, save for the edges of these illustration blocks.)

Anyway, see you Monday with the chapter link!

I didn't just get to meet mine. I lived down the road from one and not a very far drive from the other. My sisters and I would bike to the one's house on the regular to pick daffodils in her yard and have treats that she would save for my siblings, my mom's siblings (some of whom were close enough in age to functionally be my siblings), our other cousins, etc. She sewed aprons and let us help her gather eggs from her chickens and warned us to be careful around the cow fields because of the (mild) electric fence designed to keep the bull from trying to wander. The other great-grandmother crocheted afghans that she gifted us and kept a bowl of ribbon candy for when we'd visit.

My great-grandmothers passed away when I was in my twenties. they got to meet two of my children (as in their great-great grandchildren) as well as one of my nieces. We've got a five-generation photo with each of them.

Here's your chapter link for this week!

Appropriately titled "Despair," we're at the nadir of the story for our characters.

Here's a treat this week: three illustrations! Including one that is my absolute favorite of the set so far. (More info below the cut to keep the later reblog short.)

So first we have just a simple Freedom Fighter meeting, but I like it for the quiet moment it shows (with a soft gradient in the background to help sell it), and a good image of Bunnie as well. My color choices for these illustrations have been a little bit SatAM, a little bit Archie Comics, but Bunnie's colors are pretty much all SatAM because I love her colors there. Also don't worry about the blue bird guy. He's just a random Freedom Fighter I drew to fill space.

The second image is the one that's my favorite. The colors and the lighting turned out so nice, and I love how the background texture came out. I originally contemplated skipping over this lineart (I drew a fair bit more illustration sketches than I ended up inking for coloring purposes), but I decided to keep it because I wanted a nice contemplative picture of Sally, and it turned out spectacular in my opinion.

Finally we have a mirror to the "robot vision" illustration from last week, but things are a bit more...chaotic this time. It's the fault of the events in Chapter 10, especially the...repairs. But hey, the glitch effect was fun, and the words in the border weren't part of the original lineart, but were scribbled in digitally.

Tune in Monday. The pace is going to pick up again!

Waking up to seeing a comment on your fic from someone you admired way back when, but haven't interacted with since you went on an unintentional hiatus for too long:

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