thank you everybody for all the love on the new mighty drawing! i was totally floored by all of the support for it both on here & tumblr, and that is extremely cool. thank you!
the sentiment i hear most about this new drawing is that people seem to like all the little details. it's true, there are a lot of them, and a lot of little references hiding everywhere! i had fun making the longer post about the arabic sega logo, and so why not make a fun post going into all of the details here?
let's get into it!
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detail #1: mighty's headphones
one of the reasons why i like drawing mighty is because his design is really unique from the other characters' -- his ears and his shell make him very different from everybody else. this also means that sometimes accessories like shirts, necklaces, or headphones can be tough to fit on him. so i picked clip-on headphones here so it'd be easier for him to wear.
i picked cyan for his headphone colors not only because i love cyan, but also because i drew him previously with cyan headphones all the way back in june. i picked cyan there because in sonic mania the accent color on mighty's zone complete sign is cyan.
detail #2: there's a lot of stuff on this hoodie
(it was a ton of fun to draw and i wish i could make it real)
the text KICK IT/JAM text, and sonic's art here, are references to the beloved satoshi okano illustration from the mid-90's that was really influential in modern sonic's design.
so what's that "SPEED RADIO" all about? well, speed radio is a cool radio station local to station square -- advertisements for it can be seen in the speed highway level in sonic generations.
KICK IT! was also in my very first sonic drawing back in january, but that was referencing a sound sample in collision chaos's bgm from sonic CD. (great song btw)
(it's been an entire year since this drawing wow)
detail #3: the cool 90's phone
i love all of the fun anachronistic 90s tech that was common in classic sonic stuff back in the day, especially in the OVA, so here's a cool clunky flip phone with video chat on it lol. and who's that on the screen? it's ray, of course! (maybe i'll draw his outfit sometime too.)
as far as the accessories go here, the phone strap has the arabic sega logo on it (which i made a post previously about) --
-- and the keychain is a souvenir from stardust speedway -- that's a zone in sonic CD, that was also brought back for sonic mania.
i drew this previously as a sticker on tails' phone in another older drawing, i'd like to think that they all went and got souvenirs together.
detail #4, last but not least...
it's a small thing, but what is this bracelet mighty is wearing?
here's a detail that keeps popping up in my drawings -- ray and mighty have matching friendship bracelets, that presumably ray made for the two of them. they can be seen all over the place, basically whenever i draw them in fun outfits. here's screencaps of where they've appeared previously:
again, it's something small, but i hope that people who like my art can have fun catching these little details.
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whew ok, that's about it!
hiding all these little things in drawings is a great time, and it's cool to have a longer format here to talk about them. thanks for reading, i hope you all had fun too!
