Paper Sonic

[balladofwindfishes]

You're trying too hard to fit paper mario anatomy, and you lost all the sonic anatomy in there.
Just because paper mario has no legs doesn't mean you can just forget sonic's legs. No legs isn't the style, it's the character.
The body is huge, that being why you had trouble fitting the spikes on there nicely.

Then you got to work on the shading, the spikes could use some of the 2 tone low contrast shading you see on a lot of large flat areas in PM sprites, the whole thing needs some AA, etc.

it's not the character, it IS the style, no normal sized character has legs, which would mean that would be the style...