and relaxing in his pool room in his cute bathing suit where there's the cute idea for him to have a patch of sand indoors to put a towel on ���
and going for a dive
and having fun with his pool toy that's MECHANICAL instead of inflatable! it's genius!
it gives me so much life he's so adorable 🥰 he deserves to relax and have fun and I love seeing him being casual in his own space, it makes me so happy 💕
It’s about time I made a reference sheet for him! Which means now a few small things about him:
Paulie is a pilot and loves his job! His old plane, the Tornado was given to as a birthday gift but sonic said tails would be better suited to handle it. Now paulie has a new plane based on his old airplane from years ago that he lost called the Hurricane. He mostly uses it for his work of a private plane to help people get to certain places or for deliveries. But he likes to travel a bit with it to with Brenda and Tania when sonic and tails are out on adventures.
Despite his super strength and his sometimes intimidating looks, paulie is a gentle giant who wouldn’t hurt a fly. He hates fighting worried he’ll severely hurt someone and rather try and work things out. But when it comes to eggman’s robots and henchmen he’s willing to throw a punch or two which can or will permanently damage the target.
His nickname “Roly Poly” used to be a teasing name from bullies that would pick on his large size. Didn’t help that he would roll into a ball and spindash away when he got scared. But Brenda ended up making it a pet name since roly polys are the nickname for pill bugs which she finds super cute. Plus she loves paulie for who he is including his large figure so that helped boost his self confidence by a mile.
Paulie always says he doesn’t have favorites when it comes to his kids. But it’s clear that if he did, it’d be tails. Paulie was the one to inspire tails to get into air flight and is the only one to handle his bites when tails was a baby. Both of them were/are bullied for their physical appearance and their interests being seen as “nerdy” so then both connect to each other that way.
Finally he will make a big appearance in Diamond in the Rough! Hope y’all enjoy him!
Redraw from my old sketchbook. I like to do these on the side while working on other projects and to knock the rust off. Plenty of fun reference with this one. May actually draw them sparring for the next batch of sketches.