User blog comment:Smash The Echidna/SFW Winter Awards 2016 ~Smash's Votes/@comment-6195340-20160129014626/@comment-6195340-20160129051102

Look, the truth is... he's nothing like Knuckles. I get miffed when I see simple colored characters with casual clothing on, it's just weird to me. That's about all I can say.

The things that could help you improve though is to be inspired. Like, I look all aroun DeviantArt looking for good character designs, like the cool "swimsuit" designs that I saw on this character (http://novastel.deviantart.com/art/Dire-the-Ocelot-587178681).

I guess you can say that Tesla's main inspiration was my Playstation 2-- for the color scheme, anyway. The point is, try and get inspired by something. It can be as simple as my Playstation or even somebody else's fan characters.