So proud of my little guy Dustin who just won the big Littlest Guy showdown, good job sweetie UwU
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enemy mine 💔
propaganda for my oc, fibula! he's a thorn in shadow's side, but he just can't seem to shake him. it must have something to do with shadow's unique chaos energy signature... and fib's special talent for sniffing out chaos energy
you can vote for fibula here in the @sonic-oc-showdown! and remember: a vote for fib is a vote for monsters everywhere! o7
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Welcome to the Certified Little Guys Tourney!
is your fave a little dude who is short, loveable and could get carried away by a hawk?
then this is the perfect tournament for them!
accepting all characters who are short, palm sized guys and dudes! Just submit them at the google form right here:
Please refrain from giving me South Park, Owl House or Hetalia characters. (personal discomfort)
blogs who inspired me
@generic-anime-boy-bracket @fuckaroundandfindouttournament @who-do-i-know-this-man @magical-characters-tourney @blueboybracket
I put every accepted character so far into a Google Sheet! the ticks mean they have propaganda submitted and the crosses just mean I haven't made their image into a transparent yet :>
when I say little guy most of the characters I think of are male characters, which is why pretty much all of the submissions are male so far, just to clear up any confusion ^^''
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well, i said that i'd make a post breaking down stings design if he made it to round 2 and so! this is it! this is that post
without further ado, let's talk about how i designed my boy!
warnings for (drawn) close-up images of scorpions:
let's start off with his head!
the vast majority of sting's head comes from scorpion anatomy! his eyebrows are based off of a pair of a scorpion's walking legs. scorpions have 4 pairs of walking legs which are attached to the head/thorax. i can't represent all 4 pairs but i could at least represent 1, hence why his eyebrows are Huge and stick off of his head
the pair of darker red tubes that go from behind his eyebrows to the back of his head, those are meant to be pedipalps! pedipalps are actually part of a scorpion's mouth, but for sonic character design purposes i used it to resemble hair. as for the actual pincers, thats what the two things on the back of his head are. if you were to translate it to hair, it'd be like a tight, messy bun
the other part of a scorpion's mouth are the chelicerae! his mouth originally took more inspiration from how a scorpion's mouth is supposed to look, but due to how difficult it was to consistently draw + emote in general, this was changed to be more beak-like (using mimic for reference). his "tusks" are still reminiscent of the tip of the chelicerae, only they turn up to help his mouth look more distinct!
as for the 2 pairs of dot markings on his head, those are meant to represent eyes! scorpions have at least 6 eyes, 12 at most. the 2 pairs of markings are meant to give the impression that sting has 6 eyes!
next up is his clothes! since sting specializes in close-combat fighting, he doesn't really wear loose clothes as he doesn't want to risk tripping over himself or getting caught on anything. that's why he wears a simple torn tank top and some pants
his belt is fashioned after the segments on a scorpion's abdomen! thats why there's all those lines on it
his shoes, the golden edge of his shoes with the two little protrusions, those are meant to resemble a scorpion's paws!
as for sting's tail, the reason why it's so thick is because he is a highly venomous scorpion! it's also why the pincers on his head are so small: scorpions with thick tails and small pincers are Very Venomous while scorpions with thin tails and big pincers are mostly harmless! i went for a more spherical shape with his tail because i thought it looked cool. he originally didn't have a set number of segments but ultimately i landed on 6, which is the same amount of an actual scorpion (5 metasomal segments + the 1 pincer)
lastly, his palette! sting's palette is actually inspired by the deathstalker scorpions from kipo and the age of wonderbeasts! actual deathstalkers are more orange/brown, but the mutated ones in kipo are various shades of red. you can really see the inspiration in this image here
his tail has an alternating color palette for readability! it'd be harder to make out more action-y poses if it was all the same color, or if it was half lighter half darker, so the alternating colors help make it more distinct
this art is from august! it helps show the color breakdown
(flat + shade)
AND THATS IT! that is all the thought and inspiration i put into my boy. if you took the time to actually read through all of this thank you so much!!! it genuinely means a lot to me 🌟
if you really like sting, please consider voting for him in the oc showdown! you can vote here
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[ID: a photo of a sand cat and a photo of a melanistic kodkod. the sand cat is a very small tawny cat with black stripes on its arms. the kodkod is a very small black cat with subtle spots on its coat. end ID]
Sand cat fun fact: Sand cats have long hair on the soles of their paws to protect against extreme desert temperature (Source: Wikipedia)
Kodkod fun fact: The kodkod is the smallest feline native to the Americas, at 4.4-5.5lb (2-2.5kg)! (Source: Wikipedia)
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man idk I think u just want ur fave to move on :/ pitting hatchling against two separate ppl isn’t very fair. they deserved the win my dude. if theyre gonna sweep let em sweep
lmao something something “look what the lobocorp girlies have to do to mimic even a fraction of hatchling’s power” or whatever
ig hatchling is just so doomed by the narrative they had to get double teamed so they could lose. double doomed by the narrative eh
Okay so I wasn't going to answer this at first but just. Real quick. Have you ever run a tournament? Not sarcastic, genuine question, have you? Because these things are a LOT of work. Like, I was SHOCKED at how much goes into these
So of COURSE I'm going to be biased! It's my tournament! If I'm not biased, if I have no one I'm rooting for, then it becomes boring and I won't want to work on it anymore. So for me, yeah, I do want Lyf to win actually. What's the point of a poll if the runner isn't so invested in the topic that they have their own personal favorites? Idk it would just seem really tedious to me to set up brackets full of people I don't give a shit about, but that's just my perspective
I am not denying that Hatchling is completely doomed though! I genuinely thought they could pull through, and I think the only reason they didn't is because it seemed like the poll only hit the Outer Wilds community two days before it ended. Which, still, coming back from a 70/30 split to then be that close to making it 50/50 is incredible, props to the Outer Wilds fans!
As far as I can tell, Carmen and Lyf both come from very small communities. This is the first time in the entire tournament that the small guys actually had a shot, and I am sorry that the Hatchling couldn't pull through. In all honesty, even after they teamed up, I thought Lyf and Carmen were dead. I did NOT think they would survive even together. So this was more a pleasant surprise for me, and not really anything planned.
Feel free to make your own tournament though! I'd love to vote for the Hatchling!
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oh hey guys by the by, while I don't have any propoganda made quite yet i still think y'all should 1. keep tabs on the @sonic-fankid-showdown and 2. vote for vallerie when it's her turn >:)
i'll work to have at least a few things out by then :P
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