hahaha! that would suck for sonic. though it does make for a hilarious picture. you did alright for drawing sonic by the way.

Its not like hes particularly hard to draw but thanks anyway.

I never liked the official way the Sonic characters were drawn barefoot, the comics however gave them toes but were inconsistent between 3, 4 and 5 toes depending on the artist.

also, Chip from Sonic Unleashed had toes for some odd reason

That makes the "no toed" look the most consistent of the bunch sadly enough.

I bet it was huge disappointment to fans.

it sure was when I saw the official art of Tails and Amy in sandals as well as seeing Tikal... hell, for the longest time I thought Big was wearing rubber boots since he goes fishing, then came the newer renders of the character from All-Stars Racing and those ended up being sandals :|

even the cartoon shows were inconsistent with the toe count until Sonic X

I guess in the end they settled for toe-less as the main design choice. A poor choice but one they probably never even thought could be an issue since the cast of sonic are so shoe heavy (its one of the few items of clothing they do usually have).

I find it strange that the number of toes has been so inconsistent considering they've always had very human-like hands, with 4 fingers and a thumb which means they should have 5 toes. (Feet should always match the hands)

that's basically my mindset, a similar idea with Mickey Mouse, Goofy, etc, all having 4 fingers and 4 toes

Exactly! That artist truly understands how to draw.

Nope...it isn't. :D

It's quite weird for the Sonic characters to not have any toes. Looking at artworks of Big the Cat by DCLeadboot on DA, he gives him three toes.

Well this is how they were designed so its all wishful thinking on the part of Sonic foot fetish fans to draw them have toes.

LOLOL

This is why I give them toes xD They look terrible without them!

People shouldn't need to give them toes to begin with. They should just have them as standard.

On the plus side its like having a blank canvas to make your preferred foot design appear on Sonic's characters but I always try to draw my fan characters as they appear in game or cartoon since its that original look that got my attention in the first place. Characters that don't have toes do not appeal and therefore don't make it into my gallery (this being an exception of course).

*claps*

Hahahaha when I found out this was the canon look I was very surprised. Disappointment from foot fetish fans all around! Maybe a conscious deterrent by Sega character designers?

It didn't work. There more Sonic foot art then any other fan character I know.

shouldn't his feet be smelly?

Nope

well people say his feet are really smelly because of wearing the same shoes all the time

You might be onto something here.

Hes had his feet in those shoes for so long he has had athlete's foot to the point his toes have rotted off.

So ye they smell like fungal infected stumps of rotting flesh.

What a turn on that must be.

i know right XD

That just reeks of lazy artists over at Sonic Team...

Its either that or more likely a design feature to mimic the look of Sonics trademark trainers. In truth none of the characters should ever be seen without there shoes on so in the rare event that it happens, why not make it maintain that solid look everyone's already accustomed to.

As horrid as this looks to us foot lovers I have no doubt in my mind that SEGA's team actively decided that this was the most suitable look for him and most people wouldn't even think for a moment that it looked out of place.

Well, I'm quite lucky, 'cause I don't mind toeless feet. I would like them more, though, if they had 3 toes. We'll most likely never know the truth, as SEGA's team really makes sure that their characters' feet won't be revealed to the public. For an example, in "Mario & Sonic At The London 2012" in every competition, where Daisy and Peach perform barefoot, Blaze and Amy perform in slippers.

They really don't care for foot design do they. Yep... not a fan of Sonic.

Glad toe hear yo can make do with no toes. Old TMNT 2 toes was past my limit Im afraid.

There wouldnt be a rule against it.

Im expecting to do quite a few pictures that I myself am not keen on. Its part of the job I suppose.

How do you feel about Starfox characters, then?

Already been over that in an old Journal I made.

In short the metal legs theory holds up until Fox's latest appearance in SSBB were he is seen wearing normal boots like he did in dinosaur planet.

Im waiting for more proof in a WiiU game. HD visuals will determine a better result then 5 polygons for a foot and a model that was never meant to be shown in full.

So commissions with them would be out until then? That's a shame.

The new Super Smash Bros has already been confirmed and we are due a new WiiU focused Nintendo Direct around about the time E3 kicks off (Nintendo arnt doing a main conference this year).

There is a high possibility of a new Star fox game as well since the new tablet controller fits the gaming style a lot better then a Wii mote would have so Fox McCloud is still well and truly doable (even though I would have to imagine how his feet might look).

Actually, those are from a miscommunication/bad assumption on the part of the promotional artists that's effectively stuck around, if what I've heard is correct.

See, when they designed Tikal, the Dreamcast couldn't really handle the toes so they just did the lazy thing with the toeless shoes. However, the promotional artists saw it and thought it was intentional, and so they drew it that way.

Ever since then, all of the promotional/official artwork has been that way. Rather disappointing.

As for giving the Sonic characters toes, some may consider it wishful thinking, others may consider it correcting a mistake that should've been corrected before it became a hit.

Either way it's up to you.

The Dreamcast was more then capable of rendering 3 toes... Hell even Banjo from the N64 had badly drawn lines on the tops of his pentagons to indicate a the separation between his digits.

Im not against the idea that it might have been wrongfully interpreted but at no point did anyone step in and say "hmm actually that's wrong" implying that they didn't even notice it or that they were fine with the final design choice. Not everyone cares as much about feet as us so its easy to see how this could happen.

Unfortunately the damage has been done and that's that really.

*sigh8 they can make good art work of them, make tv shows about them , but they dont have the time to make toes i have some link of sonic having toes and other charaters that have toes in the shows

This is specifically new look sonic. I know other official interpretations have had toes before.

cool ^^

That's funny. Five fingers and 0 toes. Lazy!

He must have ran his toes right off.

It's this taken to the extreme: http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20130425.html

Lol... Though some Toon characters really do work just fine with only 3 toes.

Depends what style you choose as to how fitting it would be.

Well, it's his body. No one has the right to change it if Sonic doesn't want them to.

Maybe he just ran his toes right off!

Bet they took a beating inside those uncomfortable looking trainers of his as the fastest thing alive.

I'm not into Sonic feet art all that much, so I didn't really have much investment in what kind of feet they had.

Buuuuuut when I came across pictures of official art that showed Tails in sandals having no toes, I had to think, really Sega? Five fingers and no toes? That just looks weird. Even putting lines on their feet to indicate simple looking toes would have been better looking.

All it would have taken was 2 lines... They couldn't even do that.

Lazy cartooning, I guess? Haha.

blasphemy ! I grew up on the comics : P http://pawsru.org/paws/src/paws1994_9.jpg

http://pawsru.org/paws/src/paws4463_SonicTick.jpg and ill leave that there tooo XD

XD I have that issue somewhere.

you would :P

When it comes to game characters I tend to use the games as the true source material.

Even without that, Sonic X is the latest cartoon to show off the characters feet and unless they do a re design then that is currently how they look.

Now I could draw old school Sonic and that would be a different story... but I don't really like Sonic and he would be way too young for me to even consider.

he doesnt have to be young :P Sides, source material or not, the sonic archie series has produced way more images of sonic then any of the games combined, :P Its just a great resource. And it was paid for by saga so id say its legit in that sense.

would looove to see you draw more sonic

"No Sonic fan art" was actually a rule last time I did commissions. I dislike him enough to have drawn him in his worst possible form (that's probably worse then not drawing him at all).

Still there's not exactly a shortage of Sonic foot art about, hes really easy to draw and there are plenty of capable and willing artists out there to do him.

*shrug* Oh well. Cant say I didnt trrrry ; P

you need toes to grip the dirt to run faster. thats why running shoes, the high preofrmance ones, are super thin and flexible

I don't think Sonic uses conventional trainers.

The one time you draw Sonic. And there's no toes. Kinda let me down dude.

LOL nah. I fimd this pic cute. XDDD I hope we get to see the new pic soon! :)

You cant blame me for someone else's poor design.

Im just showing it how it is.

True. Haha.

no feet and one eyeball

animators day off

Makes drawing him easer that's for sure. Now I can have a day off as well ^^

Poor sonic and all the others char who don't have toes...
Well, you can alweys improvise and create the toes for them.

Others could but I wont. I think Casper the friendly ghost sucks but Im not going to give him feet just to make him more appealing. Its the same situation here.

OK. Now you just need to search some guys who have good feet for the next pic!

Thats what I usually do for fan art.

Still got a couple of my own pieces to go before fan characters make a proper return to my gallery.

Sounds fast. Soon we will see new pic of guy who have toes for real!

The Archie comics of Sonic the Hedgehog gave them toes.

SatAM and the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog gave them toes.

Only one I noticed that didn't give them toes was Sonic X.

I think the games might play an important roll to Sonic's overall look now days.

Which games showed his bare feet?

Not Sonic directly but the first appearance of feet in the new sonic games came from way back on the Dreamcast with Tikal the Echidna and Big the Cat from Sonic Adventure. Both wear sandals and clearly show the ends of there feet which then set the stage for more character to appear without toes including (most importantly) Darkspine Sonic http://sonic.wikia.com/wiki/Darkspine_Sonic.
While none of these characters are in fact Sonic himself, every other main character to show there feet since like Tails and Amy in Sonic X has consistently been toe-less implying very strongly that Sonic is the same, which is why I hammered the final nail in the coffin for him.

Ah.

Any chance of resurrecting him with toes?

Nope.

This IS Sonic now. No getting around it.

If I drew him with toes it wouldn't be the official Sonic and I still pride myself on replicating the original styles.

This picture serves as a reminder to Sonic foot fans that there lusting over something that isn't even there.

What's wrong with having imagination?

Nothing. I have a great imagination myself. I love coming up with truly original ideas and combining it with my skills to make them come to life. I have so much that I don't have time to draw all my ideas before I open for commissions (which is a shame) but then every time I finish a piece I get another 3 new ideas to replace it. Its also why I don't have a solid cast of characters to re use. Every piece has to have a new fursona for maximum variety with a new position and method every time to truly test my imagination and skill.

What I don't like doing is messing about with someone else's idea. I have enough respect not to go around adding cocks to everything in sight and I would have double standards if I then went about messing with characters foot designs.

I except and choose to like a fan character for the way they are. If they do not appeal to begin with then Im not going to muck about and change things just to suit my personal preference.

If you want to do it then fine but Im not like that. I save my imagination for my own work.

I have a collection of old sonic comics from 1994. in one of the panels sonic DOES take off his shoe because he got something in it. he had toes in that picture. it was kind of a scribble but you could see he had 5.

So inconsistent with the number of toes.

The had such a difficult time counting they decided to make it easy for themselves and just do one big toe in the end.

absolutely bad…

Agreed. Has Sonic ever actually been good though?

LOL! Extra points for the Sonic Sez ref. x) There was a time when I liked sonic, in the early 90s, I got over him pretty dang quick.

Ive never really been a fan of his games but his design is very unique I have to admit. Great Mascot material.

He was never meant to look sexy (despite now appearing in more porn then almost every other Game character) so his lack of toes arnt exactly a loss to me.

It does make me wonder how on earth anyone could like him, especially foot fetishists.

probably because some foot fetishists like the idea of his feet getting hot and sweaty from running around all day in those sneakers. I'm not one of those though, I like clean feets. sweaty smelly feet are a turnoff for me :P

He can sweat all he likes for fans but he will never grow his toes back. The aesthetic nature of feet is what makes them appeal before anything else (usually if they look nice they don't smell so bad because they appear to have been looked after) so for a fan to look at Sonic characters feet and go"Mmm I want those" doesn't makes any sense to me. They should be saying "Ew I didn't know his feet looked like that. Im out of here". Its not like the games are a redeeming factor either!

Same for me honestly.

I liked 1,2 and Spinball. Adventure for Dreamcast was fun in some places but things like fishing were just WTF. In any event, I've been done with Sonic stuff for most of my life now. Disney's Robin Hood on the other hand... ;)

And yeah, there's way too much porn of him...and WAY too much porn of Tails, who is, in canon, EIGHT YEARS OLD.

His feet look more beautiful when they have toes

I don't think anyone will disagree there.

I prefer to draw Sonic with three toes. He looks adorable with toes!

Bah, I don't care what the new gen tries to say, official sonic has five toes xD

NIce drawing of Sonic, funny situation. I really never notice how Sonic's feet might look despite they can be seen in StH issue #005

Maybe all his piggies are still at the market having roast beef.

WHERE ARE HIS TOES!!!!!! I NEED TO SEE THE INDIVIDUAL TOOTSIES!!!! PLEASE!!

Blob feet are no good

This art was used in this YouTube short haha caught me off guard so much 😂

https://youtube.com/shorts/0T6tkt7U.....efxuOdOH0IZSMC

Worst thing about the franchise honestly. I always draw them with toes.