
I kept her arms and legs furless, again, to make her look more like a Honduran white bat. She has chest fur now because I thought it made her look more like a bat and because I’m not that comfortable with an 18 year old baring visible cleavage all the time, so this hit 2 birds with one stone. I gave her a furry body because I thought it was weird that other Sonic character’s bodies had fur and Rouge was just all skin, save for her head. the gray-purple is more noticeable in the other reference sheet though). I drew (ba-dum-tssh) lots of inspiration from Honduran white bats, and thus I gave her a little bat nose and smoky colored wings (I actually wanted a more gray-ish purple wing color, but my scanner gave me this gray instead. I actually came to the decision to give her gray body fur last-minute I wanted to give her a white belt in her 2nd outfit, but her white midriff made the 2 things blend and I needed some contrast. She’s still got white fur, but her body is gray. The 1st reference sheet is Rouge’s bare body. I think the heart motif is cute! But I think making diamonds Rouge’s thing is more fitting since she loves jewels more than anything. Switch out the heart motif for a diamond motif.I wanted to give her a debut outfit and a new outfit that would stick around.


In Sonic Heroes, Rouge got a new outfit that was quickly retired. Wing arms!!! There’s nothing wrong with putting the wings on her back but I wanted to emphasize her being a bat.I get the impression that the “sexier” aspects of Rouge make her appear older than she is, so I wanted to try making her look more like she’s 18. Again, much like the Cream redesign, I’d like to start with the disclaimer that I don’t hate Rouge’s current design! I think her current look is cute but I did take some issue with it here and there, and here was the checklist I had in mind when redesigning her:
