Mario vs. Sonic
Fresh from the oven.
The reasoning behind me doing this picture is very simple:
Step 1: Draw Mario brutally fighting Sonic.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit.
If that’s not clear enough, click below to read more (and for progress animation).
South Park references aside, I chose to do this picture because my Mario vs. Bowser piece gets me a lot of hits and, since I’m always happy to get my name out there, I thought a Mario vs. Sonic fight might net me similar results. So it’s different than my previous stuff in that I usually think of something cool I want to draw and go with it whereas this time it was more “business” oriented, so to speak.
I had a clear idea of what I wanted this drawing to look like and was a little worried that because of the more physical nature of the drawing, with both characters grabbing and pulling away from each other, I might not be able to make it look natural but I did a pretty good job at it, I think. I usually struggle with these kind of drawings but there’s more leeway when the characters have cartoons proportions, I suppose.
In coloring this I went with, once again, my preferred method of hard edged shading with gradients layered on top via Photoshop. I almost added motion blur in a couple of spots but I ultimately decided against it. The fact that both characters overlap in different places made working with layers a little more complicated than usual compared to when I work with a clear foreground, middleground and background but, again, nothing major. As for the orange background, well, since I’m still too lazy to draw and color a proper background (I promise I’ll do it someday!) I just went with something that I felt was loud and obnoxious enough, in tune with the fight Mario and Sonic were having. I almost threw in a hot pink but settled for the orange that you see. The green background in the progress animation below was just a placeholder.
Not much else to say really. This is going to be my last coloring piece for a while because I’ve kinda neglected my comic-in-progress and I need to get back to doing that full time.

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DUDE….WTF
sonic bleeds rings…duh
/turn off internet nerd voice
i think sonic wil rock all the way
sonic sonic sonic sonic sonic
logico que sonic vai ganhar!!
rsrsrs
Sonic ya perdio en los 90…logico que Sonic va a perder denuevo.
I’m betting for the one who still makes good games Mario, the other one even stopped making systems and even made exclusive games for Nintendo lol way to accept defeat Sonic.
sonic al poder para mi es el mejor i lo segira siendo :D
Can I make t-shirts using ur art? :D
MARIO IS AWSOME AND HAS BEAST GAMES WHILE SONIC AND THEIR GAY COPOES OF MARIO GAMES ARE STRUGGLING MARIO ALL THE WAY FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ur the best guy!!!! i’m very fan!
Sonic Wins! The Nitendo Evil Corp. had more money to invest on the pipeboy, but Sonic is stronger than Mario.
Sonic want some rings(Man), and Mario some pipes(Supposed to be)… tsc tsc tsc!