The first image makes me think of Spinball, the best Sonic game, and Vector looks more interested in Sonic's situation with Amy than with his own predicament of currently missing the lower half of his body.
"Oh and there was the hot summer too. I HAAAATED that every time..." I'm the opposite. When it's cold, I bundle up and refuse to do anything productive. When it's hot, I can just drink some water and go back to it (whatever "it" is). Helps that I've lived in the heat most of my life.
"I did make an another Sonic doodle prior to this one, but it has seemingly aged poorly." If you haven't already, you could have just posted that one alongside this one for a showing of your artistic progression. Highlight how you've improved. I usually find the flawed (or in this case, the poorly-aged) art to be more interesting than seeing overly-polished works repeatedly being uploaded.