FINALLY GOT THIS OUT THERE YESS
I've been planning on making a more natural sona since probably the beginning of summer, but of course i didn't finish until i had significantly more pressing obligations (like... finals lol)
im really happy with how this came out, though i mean its still super new so some things might change a bit the more i draw her
freckles arent set in stone, overall they're mainly just in groups of 3-4
i keep calling them freckles because i have freckles but i guess the proper term is "spots" or something

the back marking is supposed to be a diamond/kite shape, not sure if that reads too well hehue


"b-but what about Pearby??" you all cry with weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth
I promise im not murdering my old sona, i still love her a ton and shes the longest ive ever had a fursona, so its a bit sad to change it but there were a lot of reasons:
Green doesn't always work- i know sonas are like "be urself" and all but ive seen her on other peoples monitors that had odd saturation values and she has burned my eyes on multiple occasions haha
along with that most of my really close friends have more natural colored sonas, and drawing them together isnt as appealing as i'd like lol
Pearby kinda became a handicap artwise- I feel like ive been stagnating a lot and pearby started to become a cheap way to make something look better by making it cute, but that limits a lot of what can be done well

i could go on and on but overall it was time for a change and i think its for the best for me c:

Pearby's kinda gonna be turned into a secondary sona/mascot character so she'll still be around! (im keeping this bouncy icon until i absolutely hate it haha)

also lil shoutout to Tsebresos for giving me some swaggity design suggestions and JadSMor for coming up with the name :3