How To Draw Sonic The Hedgehog - Simple Step-By-Step Tutorial
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to draw Sonic the Hedgehog.
I've broken the whole drawing up into easy-to-follow steps so you can easily follow along and create your own Sonic drawing fan art.
Let's get started!
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Drawing Supplies I Used To Draw Sonic
To make this Sonic drawing, I used Ohuhu Honolulu markers in the colors Neutral Grey 02 (CG020), Neutral Grey 05 (CG050), Rouge Orange (Y5), Coral Red (R3), Geranium (R8), Sand (E220), Dark Suntan (E110), Ocean Green (G3), Brilliant Blue (PB2), Cobalt Blue (PB3), and Black (120).
I also used a black fineliner, a graphite pencil, and an eraser.
And I made this drawing on A4-sized Canson Illustration Manga paper, which I cut in half.
How To Draw Sonic?
Step 1: Sketch The Outline Of Sonic's Head
To start sketching Sonic, I first sketched the outline of his head.
His head is somewhat circular and has three spikes that point to the right and downwards.
Step 2: Sketch Sonic Body & Legs
Next, I sketched Sonic's body.
This is just a small circle. I only sketched the left and right parts of the circle.
On the left, I extended the circle downwards with a straight line, which will be his leg.
Below the parts of the circle, I added a short line, which will be the part between his left and right legs.
Next, I sketched the oval for his belly and drew his legs with three additional straight lines.
Step 3: Sketch Sonic's Face
After that, I sketched the outline of Sonic's snout just above the oval on his belly.
His snout is round at the bottom and flat at the top.
I also added his ears, which are just triangles on his head.
Then, I added his eyes, which are just two big ovals, but they're connected in the center just above his snout.
I also sketched a bean shape for his nose and drew triangles in his ears to mark the lighter parts.
To finish his face, I sketched his pupils and mouth.
His pupils are just two small ovals with one smaller oval inside them.
Step 4: Sketch Sonic's Feet
On the bottom of his legs, I added these layered ellipses, which are the top bits of his shoes.
After that, I sketched the outline of his shoes. These are just 3 curved lines for each shoe.
Next, I marked the white stripes across his shoes with 2 more curved lines for each shoe.
Step 5: Sketch Sonic's Arms
After that, I sketched Sonic's arm.
His arm on the left has 2 L-shapes and his arm on the right 2 hockey-stick shapes.
Next, I added the first bit of his gloves, which looks like layered ellipses, similar to the top part of his shoes.
Then, I added the outline of his gloves.
His left glove is more blocky, and his right glove is just a rounded outline of the letter "b".
Lastly, I added some lines for his fingers.
Step 6: Sketch Sonic's Tail & Back Spike
To finish the sketch of Sonic, I added his tail spike and his back spike, which looks like a shark fin.
Step 7: Outline Sonic With A Black Fineliner
Before we start coloring, I like to outline the sketch with a black fineliner. This makes coloring it a lot easier, imo.
Once I had completed the outline, I erased the pencil sketch.
Step 8: Color Sonic With Markers
Now it's time to start adding the colors! My favorite part.
I used:
- CG020 to color the white parts of his shoes, his gloves, his teeth, and his eyes;
- Black to color his pupils and nose;
- G3 to color his irises;
- PB2 to color all the blue parts of his body;
- E220 to color his snout, the inside of his ears, his belly, and his arms;
- R8 to color the inside of his mouth;
- and Y5 to color the red of his shoes.
After that, I added another layer to add more depth to the colors.
I used:
- CG050 to add shadows to the light grey/white parts;
- PB3 to add some dark blue shadows on his body;
- E110 to add some shadows on the inside of his ears, his arms, his snout, and his belly;
- and R3 to add dark red shadows on his shoes.
And that's how to create fan art of Sonic.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial on how to draw Sonic the Hedgehog!
If you did, you might like some of my other tutorials as well.
Thank you!
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