sonic the hedgehog
1991 - present
✨GAME: SONIC 2 - This hilarious scene during the final stages of the game where Eggman runs faster than you✨ There was a meme of this going round at the time and I decided to do my take on it.
✨GAME: SONIC 3 & KNUCKLES - Opening cutscene where Sonic goes super across the water alongside Tails in his Tornado ✨ I made this poster because it's iconic. I chose sunset colors because I wanted to romanticize this moment to the upper limits!
✨GAME: SONIC 3 & KNUCKLES - Opening cutscene where Sonic gets the super knocked out of him by Knuckles✨ This was the very first poster I ever made... EVER. I was inspired by a Jurassic Park poster I saw on Pinterest and instantly thought: This would look good during this punch. This is by far the poster i'm most well known for.
✨GAME: SONIC 3 & KNUCKLES - Opening cutscene where Sonic goes super across the water alongside Tails in his Tornado ✨ I made this poster to celebrate Sonic's 30th anniversary as a "What if" because hyper sonic was introduced in this game. I personally imagine Knuckles trying to uppercut Hyper Sonic leaves him as simply a pair of smoldering shoes.
✨GAME: SONIC 3 & KNUCKLES - Cutscene where the death egg rises from the clouds✨ Do you want clouds? Yes. And I also wanted to display the level in this way off in the distance.
✨GAME: SONIC 3 & KNUCKLES - Jumping on the death egg✨ I try to push the boundaries of what I can silhouette. Also I tried to get fancy with the boarder.
✨GAME: SONIC 3 & KNUCKLES - The Death Egg is Falling✨ A huge inspiration for this was stranger things. I loved the neon red in the title card, and so I stole the idea. And it adds an ominousness that didn't really exist in the moment in the game.
✨GAME: SONIC 3 & KNUCKLES - Knuckles vs Mecha Sonic✨ I thoroughly enjoyed doing the clouds on this.
✨GAME: SONIC 3 & KNUCKLES - Knuckles vs Mecha Sonic✨ I wanted to be cute and do different variations of this moment, with varying degrees of intensity. Yellow and red were made almost 4 years after the first version I made.
✨GAME: SONIC 3 & KNUCKLES - Knuckles vs Super Mecha Sonic✨ I wanted to be cute and do different variations of this moment, with varying degrees of intensity.
✨GAME: SONIC 3 & KNUCKLES - Ending cutscene after hyper Sonic where you return the master emerald to Angel Island✨ I like to do tranquil moments, and this definitely felt like one. You won the game, so now you get to relax.
✨GAME: SONIC CD - The iconic opening animation by Toei✨ This is one of the coolest versions of Sonic to date. I went for a bold color because it felt as though this had been done before by a lot of people.
✨GAME: SONIC ADVENTURE - Sonic encounters Chaos 0✨ This moment has been memed to death, but I love it. I wanted to bring back the seriousness. I mean... chaos was shot multiple times by the police, and did the whole matrix falling bullets... This was meant to be taken seriously.
✨GAME: SONIC ADVENTURE - Knuckles encounters Chaos 0✨ I remember sketching the thumbnail idea for this in a classroom when I was student teaching. I got so excited to get home and to work on it.
✨GAME: SONIC ADVENTURE - Gamma dies✨ This was a sad moment. I wanted us all to feel melancholic, have that piano riff stuck in your head the moment you see it.
✨GAME: SONIC ADVENTURE - Tails end card✨ Sonic Adventure is so relaxing. I love sitting in games and looking out at the sky box and listen to the music. I wanted to amplify that feeling 100 fold, so I made an intense sunset. All of these posters are how it felt for me when I played those moments.
✨GAME: SONIC ADVENTURE - Super Sonic vs Perfect Chaos✨ Iconic moment.
✨GAME: SONIC ADVENTURE 2 - Opening scene✨ This moment just had to be done. The composition alone is just iconic, I didnt really have to change anything.
✨GAME: SONIC ADVENTURE 2 - Shadow's Reveal✨ It can be tricky doing confined spaces in this style, but I was pleased with how this one turned out from a framing perspective.
✨GAME: SONIC ADVENTURE 2 - Sonic vs Shadow City✨ This is the iconic first encounter. Shadow is so dang cool. I spent a long time trying to figure out how to do this one with my usual darkened foreground. It took me forever to realize I can just shade it and not have an object...
✨GAME: SONIC ADVENTURE 2 - Knuckles vs Rouge ✨ The opening of this is so forced haha, and I have no clue why the master emerald isn't on Angel Island... and I couldn't care less. I wanted this to feel more warm and hazy than the original felt.
✨GAME: SONIC ADVENTURE 2 - Sonic vs Shadow Forest✨ This one I focused more on the battle and less of the talking.
✨GAME: SONIC ADVENTURE 2 - Sonic vs Shadow Forest✨ You'll notice i'm pretty taken by the Sonic and Shadow dynamic.
✨GAME: SONIC ADVENTURE 2 - Knuckles in Pumpkin Hill✨ I would spend hours sitting in this level, pretending I was off on an adventure, talking to objects, I just freaking loved the Knuckles segments. It was so relaxing, yet eerie. It embodied the "lone guy on a mission" solitude that I think shines with an art style like this. Aquatic mine is probably my favorite song.
✨GAME: SONIC ADVENTURE 2 - Sonic vs Shadow ✨ I was so excited by the way I just went off the wall with the composition. The horizon is up so high! Anyways, I just love these moments. The "Phantom Menace" moments where the world is exploding, but the thing you really care about is the exchange between 2 individuals. And they respect each other, it's good stuff.
✨GAME: SONIC ADVENTURE 2 - Knuckles Saves Rouge✨ I wanted to transform this into the most romantic save ever. So I took some creative liberties...
✨GAME: SONIC ADVENTURE 2 - Sonic vs Shadow on Arc✨ This is an older piece, where I was still getting the groove of how my art style looked. I went super stylized on the floating towers thing. I took heavy, heavy, inspiration form a piece I saw on Pinterest for this one.
✨GAME: SONIC ADVENTURE 2 - Sonic's Opening✨ Trio Poster - it's both a helicopter AND the Ark
✨GAME: SONIC ADVENTURE 2 - Final Chaos Control✨ Trio Poster
✨GAME: SONIC ADVENTURE 2 - Shadow's fall after Maria's shot✨ I felt like a cool guy unveiling that these three posters were all connected. I also tried to mimic the Sonic Adventure 2 box art, it has sonic with blue and clouds, and Shadow with red and stars, and when the two collide it becomes purple in the middle.
✨GAME: SONIC ADVENTURE 2 - Super Sonic and Shadow Final Hazard✨ LIVE AND LEARN
✨GAME: SONIC HEROES - Hero team, Ocean Palace✨ I love the music and level design. In fact, I think every level here is the greatest in 3d level design there has ever been (at least on aesthetic, not actual play design).
✨GAME: SONIC HEROES - Hero team, Rail Canyon ✨ I wanted the feeling of trepidation having nothing below you, but with the beauty of sunset.
✨GAME: SONIC HEROES - Hero team, Frog Forest✨ This is my favorite Heroes level. The rain is just... the scenery is just... I just wanted people to feel what I felt when playing this game.
✨GAME: SONIC HEROES - Team Dark, Hidden Jungle✨ This level gets overshadowed by Frog forest, so I needed to bring it back to the public attention. The crocodile section at the end I couldn't do as a kid lol... This jungle is hotter than frog forest, so I went for a "same but different" vibe.
✨GAME: SONIC HEROES - Team Chaotix, Ocean Palace✨ I know, I know... this looks like Hang Castle, get in line pal.
✨GAME: SONIC HEROES - Hero team, Egg Fleet✨ I had been sitting on this sketch for about 3 years...
✨GAME: SONIC HEROES - Metal Sonic✨ All living things, kneel before your master! I loved making the lightning.
✨GAME: SONIC ADVANCED 3 - Sonic vs Super Gemerl✨ This moment is so dang cool. Gemeral is so cool. And then he turns into a disc... like... what? BOOOOOO. But at least we can pretend he actually goes all golden and glowy based on this moment.
✨GAME: FINAL FANTASY SONIC X 6 - Sonic vs Aeon✨ Was obsessed with this game as a kid. Fun fact, I got into a massive fight with Aeon because I tried recreating Aeon's sprite sheet, and Aeon did not like that lol. but we all G now, they liked this artwork :)
✨GAME: SONIC HEROES - Sonic Rush Super Sonic and Burning Blaze✨ This was actually a request someone gave me. This was hard because the moment had no objects, it's just them floating in space, so it feels different compared to my other posters.
✨GAME: SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG - Opening Shot✨ He's the coolest. I didn't do much, the material is just that good.
✨GAME: SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG - Maria getting shot✨ I tired to be all conceptual with this one. Shadow is standing over sonic with a smoldering gun, with the thought of Maria's last moments in his mind.
✨GAME: SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG - Super Shadow vs Devil Doom✨ Super shadow is just so cool.
✨GAME: SONIC RIDERS - Final Scene✨ This is a moment burned into my brain. It was just carried by how good the source material was. I just wanted to translate that into poster form.
✨GAME: SONIC THE HEDGEHOG - Silver's discussion with Blaze✨ When looking at moments to do, sometimes it's the simple and calm moments of reflection that are interesting to me. Silver doesn't think he can kill Sonic and Blaze calls him naive and that the future will remain the same... lol
✨GAME: SONIC THE HEDGEHOG - Blaze's sacrifice ✨ There used to be buildings in this one, but it cluttered visually, so I opted for a simple lava floor and focus on the characters.
✨GAME: SONIC THE HEDGEHOG - Sonic Dies✨ I mean he literally dies... so I had to do this moment. But in the original game Sonic dies in the middle of the day, so I dialed that sky to 11.
✨GAME: SONIC THE HEDGEHOG - Vs Solaris✨ This is actually such a cool conceptual boss fight. I spent a month trying to figure out how to present this in a simple yet effective way. I liked the gold and purple vibes best at the end of the day.
✨GAME: SONIC AND THE SECRET RINGS - Opening Cutscene✨ This moment was iconic. From Sonic flying out of no-where, to the building lighting up, to the flaming heart. It was just memorable growing up... so I had to do it.
✨GAME: SONIC AND THE SECRET RINGS - Vs Erazor Djinn ✨ I remember finishing this and being like... I can't believe I made this! I was so surprised how it turned out... to this day this feels like one of the most striking posters i've made. But it could also be that the scene itself is just memorable...
✨GAME: SONIC RUSH ADVENTURE - Opening Jetski Cutscene✨ I remember seeing this and being like, this could totally be a moment. And this was a poster that when I first posted it blew up. It blew up in the same way that the punch did for Sonic 3&K, and I thought... hmmm, this is a lot of fun!
✨GAME: SONIC UNLEASHED - Opening Cutscene✨ This opening cutscene, to this day, is probably the greatest piece of Sonic media we have ever gotten. It's honestly hard to do space themed posters
✨GAME: SONIC UNLEASHED - Sonic naming chip✨ Apotos is just... so beautiful... I leaned into a much harder travel poster and less of a videogame movie poster. I just wanted to do Apotos justice. I had like 2-3 versions of this poster before getting the one you see today. Also that icecream scene is melted into my brain...
✨GAME: SONIC UNLEASHED - Sonic cares about Chip✨ This is such a touching scene where it doesn't make sense for Sonic to help chip, but he does anyway because that's just who he is. I wanted this impactful moment to be amplified by the colors of the sunset in the scene.
✨GAME: SONIC UNLEASHED - Super Sonic vs Perfect Dark Gaia✨ I remember having this idea hit me and just needing to draw it so bad. Having Gaia framing Dark Gaia just seemed so cool to me haha.
✨GAME: SONIC UNLEASHED - Night of the Werehog bonus short✨ Anything with a moon and Sonic characters is iconic. I loved this slow-mo version from this still KING of animation moment.
✨GAME: SONIC AND THE BLACK KNIGHT - Sonic vs Lancelot✨ This was a remake of a super, super-old version of this that I made 4 years ago. I basically remade the entire poster, but what was crazy was that this poster took off like a wild fire because I accidentally somewhow made the trees look like a subliminal Frisk head from Undertale...
✨GAME: SONIC AND THE BLACK KNIGHT - Sonic vs Gawain✨ Every boss battle in this game conceptually is so incredibly cool, so I tried to dial the coolness to 11. I particularly love Knuckles pose here, I don't think i've done a better pose haha
✨GAME: SONIC AND THE BLACK KNIGHT - Sonic vs Percival ✨ This moment is iconic in the game so I opted for it, instead of the actual fight on top of the volcano. Which btw, how on earth did they get out of there? Ever think about that?
✨GAME: SONIC AND THE BLACK KNIGHT - Sonic vs King Arthur Finale✨ Much to everyone's surprise I had no idea about the Jojo's reference when I made this... yeah... I thought it would be unique to have Sonic closer in the foreground as opposed to them being level (like I normally do) and this concept of him approaching and talking smack came into my mind. As it turns out, this general concept was already quite popular, and I was too scared to tell anyone it was by accident.
✨GAME: SONIC AND THE BLACK KNIGHT - Merlina transforms Camelot✨ This originally was a landscape poster, but I decided to edit it to look like the rest. The cutscenes around this transformation were unbelievably good for no reason....
✨GAME: SONIC AND THE BLACK KNIGHT - Excalibur Transformation✨ This is one of the coolest moments in Sonic history for me. Everything about it just bursts with coolness. And I wanted to energy I feel when watching it to be distilled down to a single frame. I had made a different version that just didn't have the same power, so I revamped it to feel more powerful.
✨GAME: SONIC AND THE BLACK KNIGHT - Excalibur Vs Dark Queen✨ I just wanted to make more Excalibur art... somehow i'll figure out how to make more... must... make him... look cool... more.
✨GAME: SONIC MANIA - Vs Metal Sonic (Old edition)✨ Well when I made this you used to face metal sonic with a huge wall chasing you... but with the updates this moment actually no longer exists. So now people will look at this poster and be like... uhhh what?
✨GAME: SONIC MANIA - Mirage Saloon✨ This song came about purely from listening to Tee Lopes Mirage Saloon over and over and over again. As a side note, I was listening to Tee Lopes remixes of Spring Yard Zone about 4 years before he was on the Mania project. I remember just being in awe and thinking, this is the greatest arrangement I have ever heard of this zone. So it comes as 0 surprise to me how popular he's become in the community.
✨GAME: SONIC MANIA - Press Garden Act 1✨ I love press garden 1 & 2, mainly because it's like... can they make an entire level based on a printing press? Yes. The answer is yes.
✨GAME: SONIC MANIA - Press Garden Act 2✨ Probably my favorite song from Mania. The vibes here are off the chart. I have the moment of Etika playing this and hearing it for the first time etched in my memory. One thing I realize, this looks way more earie than I intended because of the silhouettes haha.
✨GAME: SONIC FORCES - Infinite's Story Collection✨ Shadow shows up.
✨GAME: SONIC FORCES - Infinite's Story Collection✨ Shadow beats up Infinite.
✨GAME: SONIC FORCES - Infinite's Story Collection✨ Shadow calls Infinite weak.
✨GAME: SONIC FORCES - Infinite's Story Collection✨ Infinite gives up his unsightly face. In some ways, it's overwhelming because I made 4 separate posters out of a single 45 second clip from the game. There are just too many poster ideas within Sonic. In fact, there are an INFINITE number of ideas.
✨GAME: SONIC FRONTIERS - Promotional material✨ When the first trailer dropped, I immediately made this. I thought for sure this would be called Sonic Rangers, but I was wrong. I wanted it to seem more dangerous which is why I chose the colors I did.
✨GAME: SONICxSHADOW GENERATIONS - Doom's Disrupts Shadow✨ I drew this the SECOND I saw the trailer. Like I probably uploaded it 45 minutes after the fact haha. This is when he transports shadow to the radical highway mirror dimension thing