Reference of Mariah Acorn
_{Happy 5th Birthday, Mariah! >w<}

Today isn't just Easter, but it's also the 5th anniversary of my beloved main char Mariah Acorn (and her 17th birthday - OMG she's older than me o_o).
And I finally got it done! D| The pic I've been working on for days. I decided to finally draw a proper reference for Mariah, since there hasn't been any until now, and this date was the best reason to do one after I missed her last B-day. XD
Well... enjoy and Happy Easter!
-- Background can be found here: [link]

__About the Picture:__

_{The sketches for the full body pics and the expressions were done last Saturday and Sunday while *Amarena-Berry was here. The expressions actually were just a practise because I just wasn't able to draw faces properly at that moment.
Shading the front and back view was a terrible pain in the ass. Cell shading, okay but the added soft shading.... = =; it was especially the hair of the back view that killed me! D:
But all in all, I think it came out quite well now.
Some big thanks to *Tessadafox and ~NinjatheSpy for helping me out with the glove and shoe references so I could keep on shading which I got done last night at 1 am. XD
So today only the background was left.
It's meant to be the place where Mariah usually trains fighting etc, but it doesn't look THAT great. |D But at least better than it was before. I just couldn't get it shaded properly. D| It almost killed me. -.-;
Now, all in all, it looks pretty good.}

MARIAH ACORN
Name: Mariah Yasmin Acorn
Species: Hedgehog/unknown
Age: 17
Date of Birth: 23rd of March
Family: Yasmin Acorn (mother); Sky Acorn (father/dead); Mirian Leaf (half-sister)
Past: When Mariah was one year old, her dad left her and her mother, to move with others for fighting against Eggman. Since then she lived alone with her mother, until one day (she was 5 then) when Eggman’s robot troops destroyed their home. Then they got seperated in the fire and Mariah was alone with nothing but a wound one of the robots left on her shoulder. Mariah wandered around alone, suffering from the pain caused through the wound, until one day when she met Yellow, who took her to his town. There she lived together with him and his family for some years. Later, when Mariah and Yellow were older, they decided to leave together with some friends and fight against Eggman. One day they came to Emerald Town where they met Sonic and his friends and where they decided to stay.
Abilities: Mariah trains Kendo, the skill to use wood swords and similar things perfectly, which helps her to use each kind of sword without problems. Besides her kicks are very strong and kick out everyone. Mariah owns two small Emerald Shards in the bracelet thing of her right glove which takes back her uncontrolled powers she got through an accident while a fight in Eggman’s base. Owing to the bracelet she can control and use Chaos Control directly or to strengthen the power of her sword.
Likes: Yellow, her friends, lavender, music, stars, fighting with swords, etc.
Hates: idiots, spiders, needles, Mirian, Eggman and other enemies, etc.
More information: Mariah doesn’t like to talk about her past, especially not about the very bad memories. But if it happens one time that she talks about a worse memory, she hides her true feelings and doesn’t show, that the reality was much worse for her, for not showing any weakness.
Personality: gentle, flared up, mature, gets angry easily, reserved

Art & Character ©

_{:: about ::
Done in Adobe Photoshop CS2
Layers: 131
Sketch: 1 hour
Coloring: 6-7 hours
Background: 5-6 hours}