Sally Redesign Part 1 by BenBates

I love you character sketches

I have to say, your choice to make the designes closer to the Games is just what made you my favourite artist from the Sonic comics!

All of the other artists make the comics looks as if they had their personal touch, giving the characters anatomy details or different proportions.. While for you, your "personal touch" is making the pages look as if they had come directly from the games!
(I had even ordered a few old issues online just to have in hand a few copies of the classic Sally and some action scenes drwan on your style! Unfortunally they are not directly sold on my country..)

Thanks for showing us the process of the redesigne, that does look indeed interesting, it's always usefull to see how the professionals do work =]

Yèah, I like Mecha Sally with a mouth!!! ^^

I liked her design until you guys "weaponized" her.

I liked Ver. 1 than Ver. 2 myself, and thanks to this history, it is clear the thought and care into this character.

Really do love your mecha sally design! You and Tracy yardley are my most two favorite sonic artists by the way ^ ^

I love how you did Mecha Sally!

compared to the first time she was robotized, she looks like a killer this one today.

You never really realize how fat Mobian heads are until you see something like this with the side view missing the arms. Her design was pretty neat... too bad you never got to see much of what she was capable of. :\

So, why do you bother drawing for the comics if you only like the games? I don't understand.  They're two different creatures and I personally liked it that way.

You did a very good job on designing Mecha Sally. The streamlined design you gave her was much nicer to look at than the Spaz cover, which seemed too busy on the details and didn't look robotic enough. It had alot of nice nods to the robotisized Mecha Sonic and Metal Sonic. I liked this look over the upgraded look she shortly got thereafter. Good job on giving something tasteful to the comic.

Thank you for sharing these with us. It's really great to get to look through the design processes.

Oh man, what a tidbit! I LOVE seeing the thought process from this stuff! Keep up the great work, wow! Thanks for sharing this with us, Ben! C:

That's pretty awesome.

nice

I think I used a reference exactly like this when I made my custom figure of her...you know this one: wakeangel2001.deviantart.com/a… she was featured in one of the fan funnies I submitted to the comic.

I have to say, it takes real talent to adapt and mold a character concept based on a prior design. you have my thanks, I enjoy your illustrative works.    I actually have you listed as one of my favorite illustrators.

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Awesome!

IMecha Sally for two years, that's hell right there.

I really like the widened parts of her boots in the sketch next to the comic cover, wish that could have stayed, I don't know why but I really liked stuff like that for robots, I did something like that with 2 robots that I made right here. rozonthehegdehog.deviantart.co… , rozonthehegdehog.deviantart.co… and I even did something similar with this character i made rozonthehegdehog.deviantart.co…. Although I am planning on doing some design tweaking for both the robots. Still the current design for mecha sally is awesome.

Arguably you did a better job with this Metal Sally than how Spaz did on that issue's cover... and agreed the interior art was lackluster in comparison, as it was a normal-looking Sally with black eyes and a few plates here and there to signify she's a robot.

Though I always kind of questioned the little handlebars/levers on her boots... I know they're supposed to equate to the seams of her boots, but they looked more like if they were pulled, something would activate.

Another thing I've wondered is since Robotnik manually redesigned her to be more weaponized, had she been deroboticized at that state, would she suddenly gain a new wardrobe/body? and what would become of her discarded mechanical pieces? I guess that would be better asked to Ian...

i saw bits of this in one of my super sonic specials i have to say you did a phenomenal job!

This is one of my favorite character designs, period.

Interesting to get a peek into the process of creating a new mecha Sally design. Like how you dropped some features and then brought them back for Weaponized Sally. I am curious if her current design would have been the same had Archie no decided on a reboot of the series.  Did you ever get to that 3rd stage look, with Sally de-roboticized from Weaponized form or did the changes happen before that? Did you get to it and have to scrap it? Or is her current look that very design?

I love mecha Sally's design. Seeing some of the design process of her is just too cool!

"but I spent a lot <of time> admiring that cover" <---- as I did with all of Spaziante's cover designs as a child. They were so vibrant and breath-taking! I'm glad recent artists are looking back on his work and polishing it in their own unique flair.

Never saw any of that before. Pretty nifty how much influence it took from previous Roboticized designs, although I remember that the Mecha Sally from issue 29 looked different than the one on the actual cover. That's fine either way since the cover version looked way better.

The second I saw this design I knew it had to be based on the cover of 29. That issue was one of the first ones I ever bought as a child, and like you, I remember being very disappointed by the Mecha Sally design on the cover. It took some time, but thanks to you, she was finally done justice It's just a shame we didn't get to see more of her.

I've always respected your ability to go back to older source material and pour over it until you find something that works. I absolutely love looking at your 'in process' designs and sketches.

I live to see this kind of stuff! Super thanks for posting up concept art like these!

Too bad the arc ended the way it did, would've loved to have seen the proper ending to it.

But thanks for going over the process of how Sally was supposed to become her new look.