Onyx The Hedgehog - Blog Posts

working with Onyx’s expressions

What if Puffball was stuck in some sort of time loop with her memories constantly being erased?

So… she would have vague feelings of familiarity whenever she sees/hears/feels/tastes/smells something that is related to whatever happened in those past time loops.

started reading A Change in Perspective and From the Shadows of the Deep, got inspired (would recommend reading)

Say hello to a siren/kraken version of Onyx (and Doom Morph Onyx)!

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Drew this one ⬇️ on Wednesday. The rest were drawn Thursday.

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Practicing with drawing hands.

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Originally, was just going to have the tentacle things (that are in place of her quill spikes) move when she was experiencing different emotions… but then I decided to add colors to it. May or may not change or modify later.

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Full-body side view:

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Doom Morph (she looks more like an octopus than a squid 😭):

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This one is by far my favorite. Didn’t want to draw over it with my pen for fear of ruining it.

remembering what past versions of Onyx looked and acted like… so I wrote them down

I literally created Onyx right after Sonic 3 came out, and she’s already on her sixth version.

(Also, typing out “sixth” felt so wrong. It doesn’t even look like a real word.)

Anyway…

exploring different concepts for Onyx’s backstory

Decided to draw her in the most recent idea I had.

experimenting with different poses

Edit to add:

I was thinking of Spider-Man while drawing these… if you couldn’t tell.

drawing Onyx again ✨

The only difference is that the one on the right is at 175% zoom instead of only 100% zoom.

She looks like she’s judging people. Honestly? I don’t blame her.

Onyx’s design is getting better and better.

And I’m finally able to draw hands more decently!

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I decided to redesign Onyx after I made this ⬇️ and redrew her.

I was struggling to make the purple and black (or purple and really dark purple) work… and white (or really light purple) just seems to go a lot better with her.

…and I wanted to make them two sides of the same coin anyway: opposite, yet the same.

Eyes still look a little odd, but I’m getting better. And I’m so glad I figured out the shape of the quills (I was watching the Snapcube fandubs last night and got a good look at the shape of Shadow’s quills… soo… that helped).

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still working on figuring out how to draw my Sonic OC

She’s starting to look better… I think I figured out the quills… but I can’t get the eyes a reasonable size, lol

References:

Colored her in on IbisPaintX:

Surprisingly, it only took me a little over two hours to color her in on IbisPaintX.

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tried to draw my Sonic OC again to get better with the anatomy

I think it went better this time. Still trying to figure out how to properly draw the hands, feet, and quills, but at least I drew them this time

(ignore the faded mushroom in the background; I drew that first and tried to erase it so I’d have space to draw my OC)

(and I was drawing in a dark room, so some of the stuff might look janky)

First time drawing Sonic characters!! 🥳

I drew Fleetway first, lol. I was so glad it didn’t turn into a complete disaster.

I drew my OC, Onyx, next (she’s Shadow’s sister)! I’ve been wanting to post about her for a while, and I’m glad I finally got around to drawing her!! 💜

Colored Onyx in on IbisPaintX.

I’m so glad I finally got around to drawing Sonic characters! Can’t wait to do more (if I even remember, lol)!