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Reworked Version: Not Alone Redo

It is occasionally funny and sometimes difficult to post a work you are some what embarrassed by, even though you don't know exactly why that is so.

When I first started, I did not have this final product in mind.
Instead, I started simply practicing what one of my college classes had gone over earlier in the day.
Perhaps somewhat sleep deprived from the week (you create some really interesting things when you are), I decided to open one of my sketch books and draw before going to bed. The aim was to do a simple practice that included the use of torsion and tension.
I was only intending to do a rough figure displaying these facets, when something else started to take shape.
Only later did I think that perhaps I had been influenced by an image I had seen on Deviant Art a few months before.

I can't even remember who the artist was now, but a Deviant had posted a fan work of Fox McCloud from Star Fox laying in an empty infirmary, wounded and bleeding. One user commented, wanting to know where Krystal and McCloud's companions were in his time of need, and I remembered thinking 'how lonely to not have anyone around when you need them most.'

I think that is what gave me inspiration for this drawing.

I have been working on this image for quite some time now. It came together as bits and pieces. To achieve what I wanted, I had to draw two separate layers, one on standard paper, the other on vellum, so I could see what I was doing. The rest was done with Photoshop, overlaying the base sketch and vellum sketch, then adjusting the layers to give the hands a somewhat foggy feel. I also used Photoshop to create the black 'halo' around the image. I did have another set of hands I had wanted to add to this image, but try as I might, I couldn't get the angle to line up properly, and the pose was rather more difficult to imagine without the character fully drawn, so sadly, that one got left out.

This was supposed to have captured a 'scene' where the best that had been done yet was first aid that was still in process, hence not all of the wounds having been treated yet, and still having his gloves and shoes. If the surrounding characters were actually visible in the image, it would be easier to tell that our hero was on a moving gurney, and the his friends were following, trying to provide comfort.
The shadowy effects on the character's hands and the dark halo were to create a sense of awareness. What Sonic was aware of. Pain clouding his mind, but even then there is still some faint knowledge that his friends are there, and vaguely what he is on. Beyond those things, he is aware of little else.
I may still tinker with the Halo FX some, but I thought I had better just go ahead and post this before I lost my nerve.

Well, I guess since this is up, it means I hit submit, and embarrassment or not, there is nothing I can do about it now. Before I could have removed it, some one would have already seen it.

Disclaimer: Don't take this as me hating Sonic. I am an old, die hard fan of the series and the comics, even watched all the cartoons!
Also, I don't own Sonic or the others in the slightest! They all belong to Sega/Archie Comics!

Description
Reworked Version: Not Alone Redo

It is occasionally funny and sometimes difficult to post a work you are some what embarrassed by, even though you don't know exactly why that is so.

When I first started, I did not have this final product in mind.
Instead, I started simply practicing what one of my college classes had gone over earlier in the day.
Perhaps somewhat sleep deprived from the week (you create some really interesting things when you are), I decided to open one of my sketch books and draw before going to bed. The aim was to do a simple practice that included the use of torsion and tension.
I was only intending to do a rough figure displaying these facets, when something else started to take shape.
Only later did I think that perhaps I had been influenced by an image I had seen on Deviant Art a few months before.

I can't even remember who the artist was now, but a Deviant had posted a fan work of Fox McCloud from Star Fox laying in an empty infirmary, wounded and bleeding. One user commented, wanting to know where Krystal and McCloud's companions were in his time of need, and I remembered thinking 'how lonely to not have anyone around when you need them most.'

I think that is what gave me inspiration for this drawing.

I have been working on this image for quite some time now. It came together as bits and pieces. To achieve what I wanted, I had to draw two separate layers, one on standard paper, the other on vellum, so I could see what I was doing. The rest was done with Photoshop, overlaying the base sketch and vellum sketch, then adjusting the layers to give the hands a somewhat foggy feel. I also used Photoshop to create the black 'halo' around the image. I did have another set of hands I had wanted to add to this image, but try as I might, I couldn't get the angle to line up properly, and the pose was rather more difficult to imagine without the character fully drawn, so sadly, that one got left out.

This was supposed to have captured a 'scene' where the best that had been done yet was first aid that was still in process, hence not all of the wounds having been treated yet, and still having his gloves and shoes. If the surrounding characters were actually visible in the image, it would be easier to tell that our hero was on a moving gurney, and the his friends were following, trying to provide comfort.
The shadowy effects on the character's hands and the dark halo were to create a sense of awareness. What Sonic was aware of. Pain clouding his mind, but even then there is still some faint knowledge that his friends are there, and vaguely what he is on. Beyond those things, he is aware of little else.
I may still tinker with the Halo FX some, but I thought I had better just go ahead and post this before I lost my nerve.

Well, I guess since this is up, it means I hit submit, and embarrassment or not, there is nothing I can do about it now. Before I could have removed it, some one would have already seen it.

Disclaimer: Don't take this as me hating Sonic. I am an old, die hard fan of the series and the comics, even watched all the cartoons!
Also, I don't own Sonic or the others in the slightest! They all belong to Sega/Archie Comics!