I want to explain what will happen from now on:
In the past 20 years Iāve been for the most part a Sonic artist and Iāve been drawing tons of Sonic related art as a hobby. Pretty much ā
of my life doing this over and over as a stress relief mechanism.Ā
As much as I enjoy drawing other stuff, Sonic was that one IP that would grab most of the attention from people. Itās useless to hide that sometimes I would draw Sonic content just to keep my accounts alive and get some comments out of you all. However lately (and by lately I mean from 2020 until now) I always fall on random burnouts here and there. I would create accounts to distance myself from my main one, but then delete them because they were kind of pointless. After all, people do not follow me for my person but for the random Sonic bullshit I draw when I can, which is totally understandable and I donāt give you any faults.
However, I want to change that. I donāt want to be known as the āWave artistā or āSurge artistā anymore. I want to prove to you all, but mostly prove to myself, that I can be much more than this on the internet. A 360Ā° artist who will improve with time and dedication to draw multiple and different stuff. This does not mean I will totally abandon Sonic, but I will try my best to lower that kind of content in the future and give space to other stuff, original or from other IPs.
To sum things up: this blog wonāt be a dead account. It will be an archive of my old stuff.
Venting for one last time.
Detoxing also means taking out something that bothered me for a while and thatās talking about the Sonic community! I need to vent for the last time, so I will be extremely harsh.Ā
What a miserable place to grow in as a fan artist. I know every community has its shithole corner, but the Sonic community isnāt just a corner, it is a whole Ā¾ of the space! Being creative and thinking out of the box is not a positive thing for these assholes and will always find a way to bring you down if you DARE to draw their beloved characters different from their Holy Canon of my ass.Ā
Holy shit, Sonic fans and their canon bonerā¦Ā
They love to dick ride this canon so much in a franchise that barely has a proper world building at all. Really, SEGA started to CARE about this lore only in the last couple of years and I really want to see them connecting every dot, even those who canāt be connected for how absurd this franchise is. Before that, SEGA/Sonic Team would just throw random ideas on the table and pick up the most interesting one. They would not give a shit about giving a sense to this fictional world. They would place futuristic zones like Grand Metropolis (Sonic Heroes) and Cyber Track (Sonic Advance 3) close to literal San Francisco (SA2) and still wonāt question why these cities can coexist in the same world and why it doesnāt make any sense.
Elitists, no-lifers, pieces of shit that would just laugh to younger or older fans drawing differently. This wave of pettiness pushed different fans to draw as canon as possible, only to be accepted by the ignorant mass. The more you draw as close as Uekawa/TOEI/Adventure/whatever āaura sauceā style, the better you receive. This doesnāt help a child to grow their creativity at all, youāre just killing them to farm content in order to get some views and maybe quick commissions, which they will put for cheap so that they wonāt be ashamed to ask what they are really worth. Not everyone wants to officially work for SEGA, so respect their take on characters.
Donāt even let me start about younger fans harassing +18 content creators because they draw some spicy pic of two fictional characters (and I talk about legal characters, NOT kid coded characters) loving and fucking eachother. They are soooooooo pure, kind and saint to even think about sex, yet they see non-existent sexual stuff on SFW works as well. These kids are so brain rotted to the point even giving a flat character a pair of boobs, not even massive, is considered taboo. Who the fuck cares if someone gives Surge (just a random example) visible boobs underneath the t-shirt? Sheās a woman, even if sheās canonically flatter sheās got those hidden in there. That fan art will never touch your precious canon, no matter what. Youāre free to dislike and move on if you donāt like it, but donāt harass people! Trust me, Surge will not pat your shoulder and appreciate your social justice work. She doesnāt EXIST and never will.
And never, ever, show Surge being paired with a male in this fandom because according to them, tomboy = 100% lesbian. And Iām saying this as someone who likes to pair Surge with female characters too.Ā
Also this fanbase is toxic as fuck. Hateful people, justice warriors and just drama in general. People will stalk you over another social to accuse you of stuff you never knew/did. Bleah!
My last thought about the Sonic franchise.
Even though I have followed Sonic for almost 26 years now, I still donāt consider myself a huge Sonic nerd. I donāt know every inch of the franchise, I didnāt play every Sonic game, watched every show or read every comic that existed in the past. I just played, read and watched what I wanted and got interested in what I thought was worth it. Iām more of a Riders/Rogues expert than a Sonic nerd. š
Right now I just think that itās time for me to move my attention somewhere else. I will keep a look at new Sonic stuff behind the scenes, but I wonāt be bothered to give a shit unless itās something about the Babylon Rogues or the Imposter Duo.
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