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WHY YOUR SONIC OC SUCKS A CRASH COURSE IN CHARACTER DESIGN Fanmade Sonic characters are notorious for being terrible. I believe this is due to a combination of the following The erin han et a high bar for character denigm -Sonkk form cre often young and inexperienced -Better ortsts hove outgrown the series Here are two octual Sonik characters that are well-designed. You can infer a lot about them in just a short glance. BLAZE THE CAT STIGKS THE BADGER -Antiches to Sonik, being stoic and posed Pyromarcenfighb with elegance -Cooky, irnational and paranoid. Habn machinen, removed from society Colors -Purple, white, and pin -Indkootes temininity and regolity -Spots of red, fieting her fire power Colors -Orange, browns, and tan -Aggreshve, natural, dirty tones -Indicotes wild ond Design -Foncy coot with fur Ining -High heek imply shes o bidber to looh good in motian -No glove Bad Sonic OCs tend to come in two varieties: THE COPYCAT AND THE AVATAR GRACE ANDROMEDEXARIA The daughter of Rouge with owesome and I made an Ask blog far her KYLE THE HEDGEHOS A clene ereated fron the DNA of Sonic, Shodow and Silver created aboardlightning powers She's Metal Sanie's wife a rebuilt Space Colony AR -Human hairstyle and clathes fusion of existing elenents Ne oniginal design elenents Leck of primary or secendary collors Remaved from Sanic's fantaswaci-5 wbe Not built for combat personality or skil set n amy Sanic Nothing to grant them a distinct identity -No iconic design aspeets How do you make a good Sonic OC? tie into their personality OC into Sonic's loove cangn -Gue them a drive but mobe their g--- dlign with color and a vecondary colot dont ust splosh the rainbow around and friench. Power of or white) to breck up The only one clowed to have deod family i for Cod's sobe. Ried does not go with green -Aimple with a lttle bt of dopth to flesh them out Design -Ioonk aspects required -It oould be o symbol on Reep the ret of the diesign simple and unform The their species -Too happy or too grinm um up their penonalty in exactly three wordh youre dear NO HEDGEHOCS I made three Sonic OCs of my own using these guidelines. THE MARTEN SPECTRA GYRO ardonkk, with a pendne desire to help and protect the innocent leep for 1000 yeors Wide-cyed and curic Quist and focused usualy Colors -Potches that change color etting others neor him Colors Colors -Indutrial bloch and yellow -Red, heroic in lapanese olblore ond cuture Design Design Almoit oien, lacking besk Metal equipment ihou his combot prowess Lach of long hair ar through long flouing leeves thot brol behind -Bosed on Jopanese aitter Why these designs work Somy to toot my own hom,but I hove a point to mahe Ive united these characters ill sets, penonalibin, andh ipecin. Iwere to place them ext to Sonk, Talh, Knuchln and Amy they wold probobly stond out, but tey wouldnt be out of place At the very least, they might hove o shot in the comic But we're just having fun! Don't tell us how to make our characters! I dont care. Ilt's more rewerding to know the difference between good and bad character dasigm. Everyona, even the mot broini treedeu losen, have ㅁvoice n the bad, of their head teling themm whether or not something i well-designed. The whole internet Ienous thot Sonic OCsare usuolly not wel-designed. Al the end of the day, wherther or not your OC in good h wbjective. but the average idiot on DeviantArt probobly hos a large range of whot they consider good. By the time their tosbes improve, they're probably not looking at pic of Sonic OCs anymore. When youre part of a practicegrOup, or fandom, t your job bo rake the bor and be the bert you can be Even if you're not good on the fint ga, you con oluays improve. Just beep trying Sonic fandom & with terrible 0C enough bled character designens are partohing in the proctice, and havent been oble to rahe the bar, Those who are portabing might not be experienced enough to design a good charocter, which is fine but those who embrace medocrity and don't even try to step up their game are being dhgreceful to art end the Sonik sern. Sonic OCs are hated inside and outside the fandom for a reason. lust because other people aren't doing a good job doesn't mean you're exempt from doing better Raise the bar. Don't settle for mediocrity.

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Why Your Sonic OC Sucks


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Ironically the art of Sticks in this is actually fanart, http://paulicat-24.deviantart.com/art/0o-Sticks-The-Badger-o0-459405856. But yeah, it's a shame people tend to overlook the idea of good Sonic OCs existing, though with 90% of everything being crap in any fandom (Sturgeon's law) it's to be expected I guess. However, that's not to say that it should be accepted. In fact it only amplifies the ending note. For instance, the same artist who made the Sticks fanart began with art like so She even gets called out for the quality, ironic considering how good she's gotten now. But hey, guess what? She didn't delete it, she decided to keep at it cause she enjoyed doing so and likely felt she could do better if she kept at it and now she has characters that have a wide range of looks that somehow manage to come together in a unifying style.

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