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Here’s a lil fanart for the wonderful in progress fic “The Metamorphosis” over on ao3 by the amazingly talented @contumacious-arcadia ! This is based off of the most recent chapter, and I could not get this scene of Niffty visiting Al out of my head, it was too sweet, I just had to draw it! Highly recommend this fic as well as their other works (seriously they are an amazing author!) Let me know what ya think and have a lovely day/night! Bye❤️

Materials: Procreate on iPad with Apple Pencil

Time: 15h 14 mins

(Any errors are solely human made! I’m still learning, and also no ai in my household!)

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banging my head against the wall

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Lucifer is stuck in both extremes.

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i had a bonus serial killer son (alastor) & adorable embarrassing mom doodle but i dont like it so

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Things Alastor Has Definitely Said 4

Alastor: Lucifer, do you know what a DILF is?

Lucifer:

Lucifer: No.

Alastor: I see. I'll ask Charlie then.

Lucifer: NO THE FUCK YOU WON'T!

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Alastor: Where is Husker?

Angel: Uh, he's busy.

Alastor: By "busy," do you mean he's currently hunched over a toilet bowl, regretting his life choices?

Angel:

Alastor: Fun! I'm going to go stare at him like he's a circus attraction!

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Alastor: Nifty, dear, would you like a pair of antlers for your collection?

Vaggie: Did you rip off your antlers?!

Alastor: Of course not, I shed them. I only rip them out if they grow back wrong. Can't have asymmetrical antlers, it's unsightly!

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Alastor: CHARLIE! WHAT'S A DILF?

Lucifer: CHARLIE, IGNORE HIM—

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Alastor: I don't often care to learn modern slang, but when I start asking, people seem strangely determined to make sure I don't get answers. Unfortunately for them, that just makes me curious.

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Alastor: Looks like you can't girlboss your way out of this one, hm?

Vox: WHERE DO YOU LEARN THIS SHIT?! STOP IT!

Alastor: It makes you uncomfortable, so no, I don't think I will.

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Alastor: So DILF isn't an insult?! Darn it, I already made a bunch of "Lucifer is a DILF" buttons to throw at the hotel guests. I was so sure it was an insult, with how he was acting...

Angel: I mean, if your goal is to make him embarrassed, I think it would still work out fine.

Alastor: You just want one of the buttons.

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Alastor: I'll drive.

Vaggie: You have a license?

Alastor: Of course I don't, licenses weren't even required when I was alive. Also, we're in Hell. Do us a favor and try to be less pathetically obvious that you're not from around here, darling.

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The friends that ruin you - by @number1trashenthusiast

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Illustration commission from @number1trashenthusiast for chapter 28 of their fic The Friends that Ruin You. I was working on a different one for it but they specifically asked for this scene from the chapter. Buildings are a challenge, but I am pleased. So is Al. Vox is not.

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My deepest darkest fantasy is that I collapse on the street and I am rushed to the hospital. They perform a bunch of tests and find out I am severely deficient in some kind of vitamin. Then I start taking the vitamin and I become the happiest cleverest person alive because all my problems were caused by this one deficiency

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Can't live with her, certainly can't live without her.

The incomparable STARSCREAM!

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I'm so curious on the ship you care the least for, I wanna know your thoughts

honestly I feel like I haven’t been that secretive about it, I’ve probably offhandedly mentioned it once or twice here

it’s not like it’s something I’m grossed out by, or I think of them as strictly platonic or anything like that—it’s just a pair of characters I think work better with a completely impersonal relationship. IMO the reason most people like their dynamic is because the way they’ve been written in modern iterations is transparently copied from the relationship between a different iconic pair of characters. The original is a pair of characters whose relationship I like, but the way it’s implemented in transformers ends up just coming off as a worse version.

I’m a nerd and I like the overly complicated and sometimes loaded politics of transformers—that’s what’s interesting to me! so for me personally I prefer the read of those characters that is more impersonal and political. You can have both (I do love political space opera) but there are some character relationships that really don’t interest me, especially when I think the relationship in question has already been done so much better by other things.

That said, I understand why people like it, and I think I just have a very different set of preferences than most people. I have a very particular taste and I’m mostly interested in bending the world and lore of Transformers to align more with that taste, which it inspired—it’s an Ouroboros of robot soap opera. I don’t want to alienate people who like a certain ship because I am so deep in disinterest for that specific character pair, as romantic interests or as friends, that I end up actively disliking it whenever it appears. That’s on me and my taste! So that’s why I probably wont talk about it too much.

Sorry if this was hard to understand, I’m tired right now but I wanted to give you at least a little bit of what you asked for. I’m very amused by the act of finding creative ways to talk around revealing the transformer ship I don’t like, like it’s something that matters at all

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Do you have any tips or guides on how to draw transformers (ur art is so good btw)

thank you so much!!

honestly I don’t put together a lot of tutorials or pointers or things like that because all things considered I genuinely don’t think I am /that/ good at drawing robots/mecha/etcetera (I’d love to be better!) but I can give you a few things I try to keep in mind:

unfortunately, one of the most valuable skills you can have is at least a rudimentary knowledge of robotics and the inner workings of machines. after an understanding of human anatomy, being able to recall and eventually even freehand mechanisms like joints and believable machine guts will take you a long way, both in the planning and execution of robot art!

if that sounds scary, a great place to start is just getting your hands on a model—transformer, gundam, whatever works! (honestly I tend to prefer model kits and other non-transformers because, while the functional transforming elements can be informative, most model kit figures are attempting to look more “believable” or “screen accurate.” besides, assembling them yourself means you know exactly what’s in there!). pay special attention to how the parts move and how the mobility is limited by the mechanisms. You can bend the rules, but it helps the verisimilitude if your figures are bending in a plausibly mechanical way.

You can stick very rigidly (literally) to rudimentary machine anatomy (I believe people call g1 style transformers “stacking boxes”) but what I like to do, counterintuitively, is find ways to work around the limits of machining to make my bots feel more organic. Instead of a straightforward hinge joint, I’ll try to replicate the interlocking shape of an elbow, and include physical adductor muscles and other more organic-looking elements (here’s an example of some robot guts from a scrapped comic:)

my point being: don’t forget to get creative with it! find some references of artistic renditions of machine innards and use your understanding of their function to inform your drawing. your robots will stand out if you’re constructing them with an idea of how they work in mind!

I know this was more conceptual than direct, but I hope this helps regardless!!

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does soundwave miss their pre empurata face? or do they not think of it

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How do I seduce Megatron?

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your megatron used to be a miner, how was her life back then? what made her become a gladiator?

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crushing on your megatron….. heyyyyyy

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“terror of the skies”

a short comic I’ve been working on in my downtime :)

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do u listen to certain music while drawing starscream and megatron stuff?

if you’re asking if I have a playlist, I do not! when I work I usually throw everything I have on shuffle and I am lazy, so I’ve never sat down and tried to make a themed playlist. but I guess I could try to think of a few songs!

account veterans probably associate me with mcr, which is fair. the song “Demolition Lovers” is probably my favorite and the one I’d recommend here! If you want other emo stuff, “Current Convulsive” and “Hell Above” by pierce the veil too!

if you want metalcore “Sleep Disorder” by Sycamour is really good! so is “Acid” by ghost town, and “Ascensionism” by sleep token (some people don’t like sleep token but I think theyre very fun)

and for misc, I’ll throw in “Face of Melinda” by Opeth, “God Made Me An Animal” by Better Lovers, and “Mouths Like Sidewinder Missiles” by Fall of Troy! (While I’m here, I just learned that one of my favorite songs from when I was in middle school got a remake/sequel, Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing by Set It Off—that one is super nostalgic to me, and if you’ve never heard it before you’ll probably see why!)

anyway, that’s a little assortment of songs from my recent listening for you! tbh I’m sure you guys could come up with much better playlists but I wanted to give you an authentic selection from my music taste lol