:: SeasonS ChangE ::

Oh gosh old picture of my Sonic Heroes Team "Team Beta Insanity"

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Original deviantAT Comment:

Team Beta Insanity on the run~
Alternate title was 'B-day Insanity', but I found a better one~ :3

Well yes, finally it IS done! 8D
This was originally meant to be a kind of team B-day gift, because most of the team members' B-days are/were close.
But then I suddenly got the random idea to join =Chibi-Metal's Contest with this! lol 8DDD
So here we go:

Late B-day Gift for =Shadowhog - 25th October
Early B-day gift for myself - 30th November
Quite early B-day gift for =Rina-the-Arctic-Fox - 27th December
VERY late/early B-day gift for =Chibi-Metal - 12th April
But now it goes as Contest Entry for her because I'm bored~ 8D


The title of this picture was inspired by Anastacia's awesome song 'Seasons Change'. All in all it's quite understandable, but even more, when you know the Story of Chronos, the place, the Team lives in. *pokes the city at the horizont*
The place is in a huge valley where spring kinda lasts during the whole year and everything is full of cherry trees and their beautiful blossoms.
But now... what's going on? Falling leaves? Autumn? In Chronos? .... Well.... Seasons Change~
Worrying about what might've happened and enjoying the many different colors comes together in their emotions. I think it's quite obvious when looking at their faces. >w<

__About the Picture:__

Well, as you'll be able to read at the end in the "about" section, this picture seriously took me forever!
Making the sketches was alright just like the lineart... kinda... like always.
Well and then I wanted to try a new coloring style. First I wanted to make something more realistic, but since I got half of the characters cell shaded anyway, I just thought of adding some new things to make it look better, since I started to have problems with the old highlighting anyway.
There are quite some little details like the violet sphere at the feathers in Miriam's hair or Luther's earrings and glasses, but unfortunately they're not seen quite well in that size.
My biggest problem was the background. I already knew it would be hard when I just started the sketches. You might've seen my last try on the background which was done with a lot of pain and suffer, and I don't really like it at all.
But then again on the night from Sunday to Monday I suddenly got an idea how to make it different. Always the wrong time for ideas though, because I can't fall asleep then.
So well here we got this idea... quite as well as I imagined, but not completely.



LOOOOOOONG Comments with Critique PLEASE!!! D:

Luther © Shadowhog
Anne © Chibi-Metal
Miriam © Rina-the-Arctic-Fox
Maria & Art © MariahAcorn
Team Beta Insanity forevaaah~ 8D

:: about ::
Done in Adobe Photoshop CS2
Layers: 168
Sketch: 1 hour
Lineart: 2 hours
Coloring: 14-16 hours
Background: 5-6 hours
Title inspired by 'Seasons Change' - Anastacia