Introduction To Drawing Metal Sonic

Introduction to Drawing Metal Sonic

Texture-less 3D models are from @/mellow-elbow 's massive folder of Sonic character models and reference photos. (And I love you for that, I use it a lot) Which are models ripped from the games. All other photos used here are from the IDW comics (Mostly issue #12) and other official sources.

➟Link to Folder ➟Metal Sonic Folder

Machines/computers are pretty and I wanted expand my skills, and am fixated on Sonic. So I found myself drawing Metal Sonic lately, and feel like sharing my learning experience on drawing this fucker since I found it interesting. I also needed to do something with these references because I used so many.

Obviously, do whatever you want. I am not going to police people on how they should be drawing a fictional robot. I mean hell, I don't draw him game accurate either and am still learning. I was interested in the details and robotics of it all to get a grasp of how he is drawn and be messed with.

From the references alone, his designs are more complicated and simplified between each artists and modellers.

Once removing all the overwhelming details, Metal boils down to very basic human anatomy. Or more accurately: he is a ball jointed doll. Think of how you can move the limbs of a Monster High or Barbie doll, it's similar.

To me, it seems that the joints where he can pivot at 360° are the shoulders, hip, neck, and risks. The elbow and knee areas are able to swing front and back. (Not sure if that needs to be said but here it is).

Pauldrons are able to move too. (Think this is the most obvious but I need to remind myself this)

Break down the hands into a basic drawing skeleton, a slightly curved rectangle for the palms and 3 joints for the fingers. Then draw the rest of the details from there since he has no muscles or fat.

There is a ball joint at the base of the thumb. That itself is a huge joint on the hand.

Fingers are drawn kinda skeletal.

Dude's pretty flat chested, and so his torso section goes inwards.

A lot perspective will come into play when drawing him in different angles, especially those where body parts mesh into one another. Keep in mind that he can't squish like someone with flesh.

Can't remember where I heard this, but the design philosophy for each metal character is that everything on them has a function. Again do whatever you want, but if you want to make a game accurate design then keep this in mind. (It's not the case for Neo, but dude is allow to have a sense of fashion)

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corvussio

4 months ago

I can’t believe my artwork has been featured on the scrunglepaws blog. Truly, this is the pinnacle of human achievement. There are no higher goals to strive for than this. Everyone has that moment in life when they realize they’ve peaked and it’s only downhill from here.

A Handful Of Silly Doodles From A Magma Sesh With @Corvussio. They Drew Nine And The "other Weirdo" Aka

A handful of silly doodles from a magma sesh with @Corvussio. They drew Nine and the "other weirdo" aka Sails. c: Basically it was like:

Me: *spots a lone Nine, so shoves a Mangey next to him*

Corvu: *spots a lone weirdo Kit, so shoves a Sails next to him*

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corvussio

5 months ago

Sure, why not. Thank you for tagging me.

Favourite colour: purple.

Currently reading: White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan by Mick Ryan.

Last song: “Origami” by The Rare Occasion.

Currently Watching: Arcane: League of Legends by Christian Linke and Alex Yee

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Currently craving: blueberry yogurt.

Hobby to try: I’ve been trying to get into writing by starting out with fanfiction. I’ve almost finished plotting out my first one after months of preparation.

Current AU: I don’t have any AUs. I’m trying to make my Tails-centric fanfiction as canon compliant as possible.

Tags: @scrunglepaws, @skojukebox, and @nblatinotails. None of you have to answer if you don’t want to of course.

I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank you, skojukebox, for being a part of what encouraged me to begin writing something of my own because of how incredible your writing is. So, if I ever manage to finish my first fic, it will be in great part thanks to you.

Tagged by @kittygamer2888! Thanks Kit! :D

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Favorite color: Purple

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Coffee or tea: I don't drink either actually 😅

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corvussio

1 year ago

Do you know who Dr. Eggman is? Blew up half the moon? Took over 99% of the world that one time? If so, do you see any similarities between him and your father? Considering they’re both autocrats of their respective regimes.

"Oh, we of the empire know him. We just don't care about the guy"

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dr eggman speedy the bird

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corvussio

3 months ago

His ears are so big, and his eyes are so polite. This drawing is so good. He’s so cute. I need to pick him up, and I need to pick him up now.

kitsunamiiii

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not my art

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corvussio

9 months ago

today is the only day you can reblog this

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Yaoi Day!

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corvussio

7 months ago

I saw you left a very sweet comment on the silly fox boys, but it poofed? D: I dunno if tumblr ate it or what... but I just wanted to say it made me REALLY happy and gave me a boost to power through some writing. Writing takes me an extremely long time because I have a really hard time focusing on it specifically. So I just wanted to say thanks and that I really appreciate when you say nice (or funny :D) things on my doodles. <3 It means a lot!

That’s because I deleted it. I became self-conscious because I thought that the comment was too long and would make you uncomfortable. I can’t believe it had nearly the complete opposite effect. I’ve now retyped it from memory. It makes me so happy to know that my words were able to leave such a positive impact. Thank you so much for sharing this with me. It has also given me a positive boost that I really needed at this time. A positive boost in addition to that your art already gives me, I mean. I hope that my future comments continue to make you as happy as your art makes me happy.

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corvussio

1 year ago

im sooo sorry sonic im soo sorry people are accusing you of being an extroverted i know you better than that

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It really comes down to which version you’re looking at and your own personal preference. Sonic X Sonic and Archie Sonic are both very different. That’s just two examples.

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corvussio

1 year ago

You know, I hear Tails has a new rival in the form of Kit the Fennec. Any thoughts on that?