Sonic

Ok, first Deviation! *rubs hands*

As a kid, my brothers and I collected hundreds of issues of Sonic The Comic, and I spent my days happily drawing picture after picture of the blue spikey one. When i stopped collecting them (after they started printing repeats) I eventually turned to Marvel and have been drawing superheroes ever since.
However, to lift my mood I decided to draw him again the other day - and don't seem to be able to stop!

In this picture I've drawn him in the stretchier style of his re-design, but added a few elements of my own.

1) Trousers (or pants i suppose): It always bugged me that while Porker Lewis (yes, I read the Fleetway comics - although I wasn't aware there was a difference at the time) was given a spiffy leather jacket, and Amy various tob-boyish clobber, Sonic, Tails and Knuckles were quite happy to walk around naked. I felt that this was unfair, and solved the problem with a nice pair of indie-rocker style black trousers. That'll keep the wind-chill out!

2) Markings: Another thing that bothered me was just how cool Shadow, Jet and others looked with their markings. Sonic's appearance is iconic, but it needed to be simple so that the Master System and Megadrive (Genesis) could cope. This is not the case any more, and I think my design keeps the familiar Red and Blue, but gives him more edge.

3) Jewelry: Around his neck sonic has a small emerald, and can access it's power should extreme cases need it. Looking on Youtube I found out that someone had found a cheat that concluded in attaining a secret, Gold emerald, so I coloured it this way.
On his left hand he has four golden rings, and I've read on Wiki that Sonic was infused with four World Rings to become Darkspine Sonic in 'Sonic And The Secret Rings'. I've not played it, so i'm not sure if this is true, but the video clips I've seen of D.Spine were pretty cool, and besides, it gives me a reason to include the fire trail behind him.
On his right he has a watch like device, that rather than show the time shows either a half moon or a whole moon to give him either access to his Werehog senses or to turn him into said beast respectivelly.

Right, sorry for going on, that was just if anyone wanted to know why he was so 'blinged up' (I feel SOOO old when I use that term!)