Commentary and Featured Art

Blaze The Hedgehog Most of my art of Blaze or Glacia

started with bases (aka the basic line art such

as circles for the heads and outline of the

body). Such as this drawing for example, it

started as a base that someone else was kind

enough to make and post it on Deviant Art

for free use. I did have problems drawing

hands which was the reason I would use a

base. The coloring, shading, and extra details

such as the bump mapping on the picture is

my work, but the basic outline of the charac-

ter was created by another person. I have

now began to be able to make my own out-

lines for my drawings so I don’t have to use a

base. Although this is true, sometimes if I see

a really good base I use it for a picture.

Written Commentary

Background Info: Blaze the hedgehog is

the guardian of the RED chaos emerald. As

you might of guessed he uses fire powers.

He is some what of a speed/tank type,

meaning he moves quickly and can take a

pounding. Blaze lost his mother while he

was still a baby because she was shot. His

father, Heat the hedgehog, raised him ever

since and was killed during an invasion in

his hometown by Eggman. Blaze escaped,

but his father’s death was an accident. They

were left to die as they bought G.U.N. units

time to escape. Blaze searches for the man

responsible for letting his father die.

Glacia The Hedgehog Lets face it, most things that keep series going from suspension is a love interest. Just

like any story, I knew that one would be needed. Plus I couldn’t let my art of Blaze be alone.

While creating Blaze I thought about this and came up with a hedgehog with the power of ice

and named her Glacia (similar to the word Glacier). I don’t mean to brag, but I have to say this

is one of the best pictures of Glacia, just the capture of beauty of art couldn’t be any better.

Again yes, a base was used, the simple circle for the head and the arms, head, and torso. I

couldn’t find the base on Deviant Art to post it in this article unfortunately. Glacia grew up

with Blaze and was separated from him during the invasion of their home town from Eggman.

She was told to run with the G.U.N. military retreating from Eggman’s army. Both Glacia and

Blaze share a special bond and rely on each other for protection. While separated, neither of

them feel safe. When they fight together they have deadly combinations due to their power

types. While creating Glacia I decided to make her more of a hit-and-run type of character.

She can deal damage, but doesn’t take hits very well.

Background Info: Glacia the hedgehog was born in the

Ice Caps of Mobius (home planet of Mobians). She was

moved down from there while she was young because of

Eggman trying to take over the place. Her parents felt it

wasn’t safe for her to stay, so she was moved south, staying

were Blaze lived in her own house however. After running

with the G.U.N. army, the power corrupt general tricks her

into pledging to join his forces if she ever wants to find

Blaze.

Mostly Information

Written Commentary

Featured: Austin Fraser

Background Info: Chandler was a

military experiment that created a

fierce one Mobian military force. Chan-

dler was stripped from his home as a

child and forced into training by the

G.U.N army. Special chemical experi-

ments caused his fur to become

stronger than steel, and can withstand

immense amounts of heat and can stop

bullets. Those chemicals also caused

Chandler to have incredible strength.

Chandler’s namesake comes form his

ability called “Break”, in which he vi-

brates the molecules of whatever he is

touching, causing the item to explode

violently.

Chandler Break The Dog This drawing of Chandler by Austin Fraser was one of

the best characters I’ve ever seen him draw. This is the first

time he ever drew a Sonic fan character. It took him about an

hour to do the drawing. Coloring and shading took him

about 3 hours. I watched him draw this using Gimp, and he

worked amazingly hard on it. Definitely looks like he spent

hours on it. He has only drawn two pictures of Chandler. I

would definitely like to see more and personally I would like

to request a drawing of Blaze from him.

Written Commentary

Jolt The Hedgehog This is Austin Fraser’s third drawing of

one of his Sonic fan characters named Jolt. I

have to say Austin does absolutely amazing on

his characters. Especially the way he shades

them. They look absolutely amazing. You can

definitely see their inner traits in them when

you just take a look at them on the outside. Jolt

as you could probably tell has lightening pow-

ers. After drawing Chandler, Fraser had the

urge to draw another made up character. He

thought about it and proposed this to me. I

think it looks very nice. It almost look like it has

a glossy touch to with the way he has shaded it

which I love.

Background Info: Not much is know

about Jolt. All that is known is that he

was a G.U.N. Military experiment that

went wrong.

Written Commentary

Mitchie Problem-Solver *Mitchie5* is an artist who loves to draw cartoon characters

and Anime. She plans on working for the famous Cartoon Network

as a voice actor for her career. She has definitely gained a lot of

support for her hard work, and she continues to fight for her fu-

ture. She usually takes art request. You send in a request and she

will draw what you are wanting. You can find her Facebook fan

page on the reference page in the back of this magazine. Her art is

absolutely amazing. She should not have any problems getting into

Cartoon Network I say. Both drawings below are things she drew

and had them sent into Cartoon Network to show them how skill-

ful she is at cartooning. I have to add that the character collage

(bottom left) is just flawless. The characters are just dead centered

detailed correctly and look exactly like what the look like off of the

shows on Cartoon Network. I had to feature this art because of

how amazingly well she worked and done on them. The anime

character (top left) is just a random drawing she did. Even though

there is no color its still down right wonderful. Lots of detail and I

assume the hair on the character must have taken ages.

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References Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/xXBlazeTheHedghogXx?

feature=mhee

Facebook links: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Blaze-The-

Hedgehog/174430789276823

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mitchie/287123771319900

Deviant Art: http://xblazethehedgehogx.deviantart.com/