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Sonic Redesign- knuckles — Description
I really wanted to learn more about character design. The idea of re-imagining the Sonic cast intrigued me because it seemed to present a lot of fun and interesting challenges.
Not only did I find that the franchise had a lot of cool, weird concepts to work with, like “ purple kitty pyro queen” or “evil shape shifter”, but there was the issue of creating a sense balance and diversity between the characters as a whole.

For reasons unknown to my self I kept adding to the project. Earlier drawings were more zany, illustrative and experimental and later versions were softer and three-dimensional.
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Knuckles;
Protector of the master emerald, lonely curmudgeon, and the last member of a powerful race of echidnas, ...who apparently built the pyramids in both Egypt and Guatemala.

Obviously I wanted to make him look like someone who wouldn’t get along with others. Tribal get up shows his devotion to his race, but the looseness of the binding shows that knowledge of their practices are fading, and for all his hard work he never did get proper tutelage.