I won't lie, the whole "Sonic will not stop affecting my art" on eyes is genuinely always the biggest thing that used to really fuck me up in my brain
I'd want to do PROPER eyes with CIRCLE irises and CIRCLE pupils and then I'd just drift back to the Ovals I Leant From Modern Sonic
A lot of that agonising came from desperately wanting that supposed "own style" thing and "gotta be more realistic" before finally realising I'm drawing highly saturated animal people regularly stop that DO and just being generally more happy with what I do now lol

