Male Sonic Body - Joe the Echidnafox

Okay, now to begin a long multi-part tutorial on how to make custom Sonic style sprites. These tutorials will focus on modelling only, as we already have tutorials on how to shade.
Next, we'll continue with the body. The size of the body will depend on which style you intend your sprites to be in. The Genesis styles use bigger sprites than the GBA styles, so the Genesis heads will be bigger. This tutorial will use the size of Advance and Battle sprites. We'll be making a custom Sonic sized male body in this tutorial.

To start with, We'll make a vertical ovalish shape that is 6 pixels tall, and 5 pixels wide. This might be smaller or bigger depending on the character's age and height.

Depending on the character's body build, you can keep it the way it is, make the upper half look a tiny bit thicker for muscle, or make the whole body thicker for heavyer characters.
Now that the basic shape of the body is finished, it's time to clean it up a bit, and fix the shape a little.

Now, at this point, we'll start adding in designs or details. These all depend on the character. Sonic would have a skin colored circle shape on him, and Tails would have a similar shape as Sonic's, but white and furry. As I said, it all depends on the character.
Finally, clean up any uneeded pixels, fix minor things, and start shading, and you'll have your own custom male body!