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As an overeager, ADHD-riddled gal myself, I can proudly say that Hashtag is my favorite terran (っ˘ڡ˘ς) Also love her voice acting

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Hello! I got into transformers recently and I've been scrolling through Tumblr for awhile to find TF related content. I happen to come across your blog and dare I say your illustrations are stunning!🧡 The color choices and the line work is absolutely amazing.

You can say I'm a little motivated to draw some robots now—but as someone who only drew humans in the past and someone who just joined the fandom. I've come to the realization that drawing robots is much harder than it looks🤲..

If it's not too much to ask, would you mind sharing some tips or experiences on how you started drawing them? Thank you🦐

Man, you have no idea how much seeing this made my day (〃´∀｀)! But sure!

The general idea I use is to break down characters into their most basic shapes, fx Transformers Prime and Animated has super strong shape language especially compared to G1 where everyone are squares

Before drawing a new character, I like to practice my muscle memory by isolating these basic shapes on top of a reference image. To get that proper giant alien robot feel it's especially helpful to practice big, squareish shapes (though depends on the character, some have more fluid shapes similar to humans).

With the overall shapes you can draw your desired pose much easier because you don't need to think about details yet.

When you have the pose down, you can continue on with the details. These are also just shapes broken down into smaller shapes. You just continue to break everything into shapes until you have achieved the level of detail that you want. Everything is shapes

When adding details, it's a good idea to have a bunch of references ready. I usually just go through an episode/chapter with the character I want and take a shit ton of screenshots

⊹⊹⊹⊹Some general tips I have are:⊹⊹⊹⊹

Find inspiration from different artists you like and see how they break down the characters (and try doing the shape practicing to get used to the feeling of drawing bigger shapes)

This is a strange addon tip but hear me out, a lot of R18 tf artists are insanely talented, like to an unlawful degree. Welcome to the rust sea of sin, I would add recommendations but I am a coward

Varying lineweight is especially useful to separate bigger shapes from details, otherwise it can quickly look busy and messy (look at Alex Milnes art before coloring, there it is very visible)

Alex Milne also uses full black in certain less visible/high contrast areas to create focus on the more important details. It helps to create a more balanced drawing. Also helps to hide areas you aren't confident about such as joints lol

Don't be afraid to exaggerate the lines, robots have a tendency to look stiff

Do not fear the shapes, the shapes mean no harm.

And lastly, thank you for your kind ask! There are many ways to begin drawing robots and I hope this may help in your journey down the rabbithole of giant sexy gay alien robots (ʃƪ˶˘ ﻬ ˘˶)♥♥

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At least Heatwave takes care of the grandkids

I have found that my favourite characters tend to be the exasperated parents who need a vacation. Soundwave, Charlie Burns, Dottie, Ultra Magnus, Agent Fowler... what that says about me I'd rather not think about

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Greetings,

hope you’re doing well.

Just stumbled on your holomatter designs for the rescue bots and love them a lot, could you please tell me if (me drawing) fanart of them is allowed?

Oh man those are so old!

But sure, they are loosely based off their VA's so if you add more details you can follow that theme (HW could definitely be a bit more gruff haha)

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Trick or treat!

(I'm soundwave:] )

Treat “ψ (｀∇´) ψ !! Here, have an opera tenor Soundwave!

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Do you think that Jawbreaker go totally savage, sometimes, when he's really angry?

Only savage with love and hugs (ꈍ ‸ ꈍ✿) ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ ✿♥‿♥✿

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Headcanon: Tfe Bumblebee likes ghost's music

Oh hell yes

Legend has it that all G.H.O.S.T vehicles have mandatory local copies of Ghost, """for motivation purposes""", and Hashtag found out which is how Bee found them ╭(╭⊚‿⊚╮)╮

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Do you do request

Depends! I'm currently quite busy after studies have started again but small things could be arranged (*^ ‿ <*)♡

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You thought I wasn't gonna put this curvy bitch in a dress?

Fools.

Also wtf, this series went from Rescue Bots to Cyberverse Season 3 to Did I read the age rating right?? I mean I like it but what, a human got brutally disintegrated front and center

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The yoga from the post back...

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Damn I did not have time for anything pride so let's just say this is an exceedingly nebulus bisexual flag（´＿｀）

Regardless, I am completely in love with this design for Frenzy

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Y’all, I’m back from the dead ‘cause I had to watch Eurovision (naww DK didn’t get in the finals), this time with a sorry attempt at drawing humans

I finally found a way to watch Earthspark and it’s so lovely??? Designs are peak and it’s got that cozy Rescue Bots vibe where everyone is just learning about each other while chaos ensues. Only thing that bothers me is how Mo’s eyes are so much larger than every other human, it seriously distracts me lol

Also, they probably found OP and Megs doing yoga or something

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Hello! Just wanted to ask about your week, hows it going so far?

Hi! thank you for the question (´∀｀)♡! I'm a little stressed out with my studies lately, which is why I haven't posted as often as I would like, but I have had some ideas I would like to work on soon!

Hope your week has been going well too

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Hello! Are your commissions still open? How do you prefer to be contacted? (I’m sorry if you answered this before, I’m on mobile and it won’t let me search for a commissions post ^^;)

Hello! Commissions are still open, just contact me via private messages here on tumblr ;)

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By any chance do you have an Instagram or Twitter? :D

Heyy! Unfortunately not, as I try to stay away from social media... but everything is collected here on tumblr! (ง ื▿ ื)ว

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Bringing Breakdown back from his grave to give them the dresses they deserve for Valentines

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Oh noe  (っ˘̩╭╮˘̩)っ